Houseplant Compost Recommendations

[EdithGrantham]

As it says in the title really, I have a small selection of houseplants that all need repotting so looking for some decent compost instead of the usual multipurpose stuff I use which quite frankly was crap this year! Not sure if it makes a difference but the plants I have are: nerve plant, asparagus fern, another fern that I forget the variety, dumb cane, spider plant, jade plant and a monkey mask plant.

The jade plant is a succulent and needs free-draining soil, so that will do well in cactus compost, and most garden centres sell small bags of that. With the remainder of the cactus compost, mix it with regular houseplant compost and use it for the rest of them. Spring is the best time to repot houseplants, and at this time of year they will be entering a semi-dormant winter period, so unless you are in the southern hemisphere and it is spring where you are, or some of them are totally root-bound and are desperate for a repot then I'd leave it for now.

They're not pot bound but the compost they're in is pretty rubbish and the plants are ok but not exactly thriving, maybe I could just give them a couple of feeds to see them through winter?