I’m a firm believer that what you put into your soil you will receive out of it. . . Including blood sweat and tears so mixing it by hand is hard work but it puts a little of yourself into the soil and if your as awesome as me itll come out in your plants 
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I have a plastic cement mixing tub and a mini-spade shovel for my soil mixing, which also serves as a good work area for repotting and the likes. A little bit broader and shallower than what @Muleskinner linked to above, but no cover for storage. Trade-offs!
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I was talking to one of the huge names in the cannabis community. Very very intelligent fella. He recommended that enough ag companies are mixing great soils that unless you’re just into buying a bunch of stuff and doing it that buying a pre mix is advisable.
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Are you sure he wasn’t trying to keep money,“In the cannabis industry.”
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Roots Organics 707 is great stuff but it’s around $9 per cf. The highest-end ingredients I can find for my mix only cost me $5-$7 per cf. So you can save 50% by mixing yourself. And most pre-blends cost more than Roots 707.
Plus you’re in control. If someone else is making the mix your results will change when they change things.
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@ryasco, pretty sure. He’s a good fella with sound advice, who gains nothing from trying to suggest prepackaged soil lol
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M2 but sometimes on my garage floor with a grain shovel!LOL
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My plants are drooling for that mix. Lol
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does some members on og make their organic soils @ home. this is something I think we need to talk about share the knowledge.
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Here you go my friend. 
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Holy cow, are you going to mulch your whole yard with them? 
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no, @99PerCent is signed up for 8 of the 16 bales, we’ll both try to sell them off to other gardeners and keep a few. So basically I’ll be slingin’ bales of rice hulls out of my garage!
Anyone in the Boston/NH/Maine area feel free to reach out if you want a bale, they were about $21.80 each. The best price I could find for individual bales was $50.
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Ha ha. They do look huge. 
I’ll be making up 12 containers with about 10 gallons of soil mix in each in the next week. The first bail is practically used up already.
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I just got a sample bag of “Great Lakes Water Only” soil from Detroit Nutrient Company. I’m excited to try it. I also have looked at kis organics, build a soil, and soil king big rootz
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Into the 2nd bag of rice hulls.
I guess if @Muleskinner can’t sell his excess, maybe I’ll be buying it??
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Soil cost is 3$ per bag.
In my opinion I’d have to disagree with that statement I’v seen a lot of bags at HOME depot, Walmart, Lowes and even nurseries that have had the corners torn out probably on purpose by consumers checking out what there getting for their dollar and I personally see saw dust and decent sized wood chips ( filler material) that aren’t even fully composted yet … I wish @lotus710 was still with us he’d give us a piece of his mind on bagged composts sold on the market!
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As long as it is not made out of sewage waste, I’m ok with it. I would run it through a worm bin first though. 
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That’s funny haven’t even looked at that ! " now that I have seems like it’s pretty heavy on amendments for the volume it goes in!
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