8 Best Potting Soils For Herbs [Top Reviewed]

You can’t do a lot better than this hand-blended, all natural medium specially formulated with your indoor herb garden in mind! Formulated potent blend of peat, perlite, lime, and worm castings to help encourage strong root development and better growth, this is undoubtedly one of the best organic potting soils for herbs out there. This spongey, fast-draining mix is a good option for cuttings and seedlings, so your baby herbs are sure to be right at home. A 4qt bag of this is more than enough to grow pots and pots of mint, chives, sage, rosemary and oregano and at $13, this is well suited to its spot on our list of the best soils for herbs in pots on the market!

This isn’t the gnat filled, prone-to-rotting, mulch-y Miracle-Gro you remember. They’ve upped their game, resulting in one of the best organic potting soils for herbs you’re likely to find! Growing herbs indoors in containers means that you’re entirely responsible for attending to their (minimal) needs; underfed herbs are no good at all, —keep them perky and green with Nature’s Care Organic & Natural Potting Mix with Water Conserve. Enriched with with moisture-holding humectants like yucca and coir, this specially formulated potting mix works a bit like a sponge to retain moisture and keep you from under or over watering! The addition of alfalfa and kelp meal, earthworm castings and bone meal ensure your herbs will root well, and all but guaranteed this little green bag’s place on our list of the best soils for herbs in pots on the market.

Kick your herb garden into gear with this pH adjusted premium potting medium! Give your herbs the warm welcome they deserve with Happy Frog’s high quality ingredients: enriched with beneficial soil microbes and mycorrhizal fungi that dramatically expand root development and help your herbs feed more aggressively, plus earthworm castings, aged forest products, and bat guano, this is one invaluable addition to your gardening arsenal. You’ll be tasting (and smelling!) fresh, tender herbs straight from your pot or planter in no time at all, thanks to one of the best organic potting soils for herbs on the market.

Herbs need an excellent herb substrate to thrive and this Sun Gro container mix is it! Specifically formulated for container plants, this light, fluffy Canadian sphagnum peat Moss, coir, compost and earthworm casting mix will become as much a staple to your garden as a trusty pair of pruning shears! This is one of the best organic potting soils for herbs on the market, precisely because it does exactly what it says it will on the bag (and what a rarity that is!): retains moisture and locks in nutrients to keep your container plants green and thriving long after your first water. At $14 for 8 liter of soil, this is a great, cost-effective contender for the best soil for herbs in pots!

You choose the soil to suit the herb, not the other way around. For Mediterranean herbs like rosemary and lavender, pick a dry, porous medium that proffers excellent drainage. Professional Grower’s succulent and cactus soil mix is well suited to herbs such as these, that like to be treated a little mean. At 25% perlite, it strikes just the right balance between drainage and retaining enough moisture to help your Mediterranean herbs grow big and strong! If it’s a little too droughty for your tastes, or your herbs start to skulk, try topping it up with some cane, hay or other mulched plant matter to help it stay moist and offset its grittiness! Coir peat – a sustainable resource from coconut fiber, is another great option! But we loved it, and didn’t need to tinker with it one bit, which is why a soil intended for succulents made its way onto our list of the best soils for herbs in pots on the market.

You may tire of using coco coir in your garden (though I can’t imagine why you would) but I certainly never will. I mean, what’s not to love? You can fix a soil bed fit for an herb king, or several hundred herb kings if you so pleased, with a $26 wedge of thirteen straight gallons of soil. That alone was enough to cement its standing as one of the best soils for herbs in pots you’re likely to find! Coir is the proverbial gift that keeps on giving. It improves soil drainage in the bed while also helping to retain moisture in quick-draining soils, and because it breaks down slowly, much like peat, it creates air pockets in the soil that allow excess moisture to drain away from plant roots, thereby preventing the bane of every gardener’s existence: root rot. Plus, coir supports strong root growth and is often used to start seeds and grow hydroponically. It’s safe to say I’m not the only one crazy about it: its rave reviews will attest to the fact that it’s well deserving of its place on our list of the best organic potting soils for herbs on the market.

Ah, peat. Peat changed the face of gardening as we know it, and I for one, have never looked back.  Potting with peat has a whole host of benefits, whether you’re an indoor container gardener short on space or one of the blessed few amongst us with, gasp, yard space, and this is one of the best potting soils for herbs out there. Peat is first and foremost used to improve soil drainage to prevent drippy soil and consequent root rot, but that’s not all it’s good for. Plants that thrive in acidic conditions are a big fan of peat because it lowers soil pH — but if you’re dealing with plants that would prefer otherwise, just add a little lime and you’ll be all set. It’s particularly suited to seedlings and the like because it’s so resistant to compaction and roots can snake all the way through with little in the way of resistance. Peat acts like a sponge: it’ll hold onto water and nutrients, and slowly release them into the plants’ root systems. At $28 for 40 quarts of soil, this lightweight blend of pre moistened sphagnum and slow-release fertilizers is a tad on the pricier side, but well worth it — that’s why it’s on our list of the best organic potting soils for herbs on the market.

Last up on our list of the best soils for herbs in pots on the market, the Big Rootz All Purpose pH adjusted premium potting soil! With a steep, big leagues price-tag of $50, you’d be justified in asking whether this is really worth it, but it is. Fledgling gardeners will love how easy it to use, whilst professional growers will appreciate the uniquely enriched blend of the triple-washed coir, peat and worm casting blend! The presence of mycorrizhae is all the TLC roots need to flourish, and we’d be hard pressed to find a beter contender for the best organic potting soils for herbs at this price point!