Miracle Gro garden soil or potting mix?

For containers, I'd have gone with a straight potting mix.

If you're using garden soil, then you may have compaction issues, even with the added peat, since you didn't add perlite or vermiculite for drainage

Its potting Mix.

Aside from after-the-fact being a bad time to ask, you should be fine. LOL

You'll learn some valuable lessons this year about what to use and what not to use in container gardening.

Do please keep in mind that your plants will need to be fed regularly because there is no soil food web in the bucket to digest the composted manure as there would be in the ground. So minimal nutrients from the manure compost will be available to the plants. Plus what nutrients there are will quickly drain out of the container with watering.

Next time just use the MG or similar potting mix. It already contains the peat and has been pH balanced with lime. By adding more peat to the mix you will have made it more acidic and that too can interfere with nutrient uptake.

Good luck with your plants.

Dave

Thanks for reply all of you. Can i mix something in it to correct my mistake. My plants are small, i can correct the soil and put the plants back in it again?

Can i mix something in it to correct my mistake. My plants are small, i can correct the soil and put the plants back in it again?

You'll do more damage than good by trying to remove and replant them. You are boxed in to using liquid nutrient sources but that is fine.

You can always buy some garden lime and mix a very small amount in water, let it sit for a few hours and them water the soil with the water. But it really isn't necessary as long as you feed them. They are small because the container lacks nutrients.

If you want strictly organics then there are any number of liquid organic fertilizers available on the market to use - fish emulsions and/or fish and kep blends mixed into water - sold at any of the big box stores or nurseries and discussed here in infinite detail.

Or you can use Miracle Grow diluted to 1/2 strength and feed every 7-10 days.

Dave

Thanks Dave