BACCTO soils and peat moss products for home gardening combine quality materials and, as appropriate, the right blend of complementary nutrients for optimum performance. Every BACCTO retail product provides a thoroughly tested formulation, consistent from bag to bag, thats sure to meet the needs of any home gardener.
New From Michigan PeatNew eye-catching packaging plus the addition of a slow-release fertilizer make the already popular BACCTO potting soils even more appealing to your consumer customers.
BACCTO Premium Potting Soil
An excellent general-purpose potting soil for indoor and outdoor plantings in containers and beds, BACCTO Premium Potting Soil provides a premium blend of naturally nutritious dark reed sedge peat, perlite, and sand. BACCTO Premium Potting Soil includes both starter and slow-release fertilizers to provide the optimal growing environment in one easy-to-use product.
BACCTO LITE™ Premium Potting Soil
This popular, pre-moistened, all-purpose potting soil is designed to be light in weight and easy to use when planting indoor and outdoor potting plants or bulbs, or starting seeds or rooted cuttings. A lightweight blend of sphagnum peat and other quality materials, BACCTO LITE Premium Potting Soil includes starter and slow-release fertilizers and is ready to use right out of the bag.
Professional Planting Mix
BACCTO Professional Planting Mix is a high-quality, scientifically formulated growing media that ensures optimum growth potential. This professional mix is blended in a special system that provides uniformity, easy handling, and the highest possible consistency from shipment to shipment. Pre-moistened BACCTO Professional Planting Mix is formulated to enhance the growth of bedding and potted crops in flats, pots, and hanging baskets where higher moisture reserves and shelf life are needed.
Garden Soil
Ideal for outdoor vegetable gardens, flower gardens, and ornamental beds, BACCTO Garden Soil provides a nutrient-rich blend of moist horticultural sphagnum peat moss and odor-free manure. As with all BACCTO products, it's ready to use right out of the bag. Worked into existing soil, it helps stretch home-gardening budgets while delivering gratifying results.
Horticultural Sphagnum Peat Moss
This unique product is a dense, brown, fibrous sphagnum. It is pre-moistened, so its clean and easy to use right from the bag. BACCTO Horticultural Sphagnum Peat Moss may be used alone as a top dressing or as a base for custom mixes. Either way, it provides for both water retention and aeration. Careful screening provides a clean, uniform consistency.
Top Soil
BACCTO Top Soil is formulated to offer a clean, bagged, top soil product. The top soil complements consumer application by aiding in the maintenance of moisture, microbial, and nutritional balance. BACCTO Top Soil can be used in numerous applications.
Peat
BACCTO Peat, nature's organic soil conditioner, is screened for uniform consistency and will condition soil for blooming plants, shrubs, vegetables, and lawns. A complete soil conditioner right out of the bag, this peat loosens compacted soils and retains moisture and nutrients.
Our most popular blend, this pre-moistened planting mix is formulated to enhance the growth of bedding and the potted crops in flats, pots, and hanging baskets.
Mix characteristics include:
High Density Professional Planting Mix
Sandy loam soil is added to this pre-moistened Michigan sphagnum peat and perlite mixture to provide an air/water balance that assists in maintaining crop consistency and plant stoutness.
High Porosity Professional Planting Mix
This pre-moistened mix provides increased drainage and faster drying for bedding and potted crops. It's "grower friendly," for easy handling and use.
Seedling/Propagating Mix
This pre-moistened blend is specially formulated for germinating seeds, growing plugs, and rooting cuttings. The mix gives young crops a healthy start, and provides for optimum growth even where water quality is poor.
Bark 1000 Professional Planting Mix
Carefully formulated for longer-term plantings (e.g., vinca, geraniums, moisture-sensitive crops) in smaller containers such as flats and smaller pots. Bark 1000's physical properties allow for thorough watering, while maintaining good air porosity and moisture reserves.
Bark 2000 Professional Planting Mix
Contrasted with Bark 1000, Bark 2000 was developed for use with long-term crops, hanging baskets, stock plants, and other potted crops that require excellent drainage, while maintaining sufficient moisture reserves. Bark 2000's physical properties allow for frequent irrigation and faster dry down for moisture-sensitive crops.
BACCTO® Pre-filled Containers
Michigan Peat's pre-filled containers save growers time, labor, and overhead. These pre-moistened flats are palletized and stretch-wrapped to prevent damage before, during and after shipment. Each flat is properly filled with the consistent, uniform BACCTO blend of your choice. The same high quality that is standard with all bagged products can be found in our pre-filled flats. (Available sizes: 1203, 1204, 1206 Standard; 1801 Standard Hi-Rise; 1203, 1204, 1801 True size)
BACCTO® Bulk Bags
Loose-filled, economical bulk packages help reduce packaging waste. They're capped, wrapped and disposable for greater convenience.