Is nearby a use why potting soil should not be used within a garden? I was purchasing a few stacks of top soil and a...
I was purchasing a few stacks of top soil and a bag of potting soil. One sale person asked if I be going to put it in my garden, later went past its sell-by date on me when I said yes- though she did not explain why, she kept saying, "it say so on the bag!"
Answers: Potting soil is much finer than garden soil. It isn't discouraging for your plants but will wash away when watering.
If you want to use it contained by the garden mix in some mulch to bequeath it texture & structure
As far as sales society are concerned, when I visit the plant nursery I other talk to a horticulturist
Nope, its impeccably OK to use potting soil in the garden. It would be a well-mannered idea to mix the potting soil beside the existing garden soil because that soil has a different chemical get up and porosity level (ability to hold sea droplets). Its a good belief to keep the soil consistent where on earth ever you are putting the plants especially in the top foot where on earth most of the roots will be growing. So by mixing the new potting soil into the garden soil (with a shovel) it is making it more of consistent milieu (aka strata) and you are not "surprising the plants" when the roots grow down into the the normal garden soil. Plants don't approaching surprises when they are trying to grow and having an inconsistent soil can be as intrusive to the plant as one hampered by grubs and insects etc.