Can I put potting soil in the ground?

[Gurtgurt]

I'm about to try to grow outside for the first time. I have 2 plants vegging in pots outside fully hardened off. I've identified the place in my yard that gets the best light. I want to put them in the ground instead of a big pot due to expense and not wanting to water that much.

My ground is like total clay and I question the roots ability to dig in. So, instead of digging a hole exactly as big as the pot, could I dig a bigger hole and put extra putting soil? So this way the layers go: root ball in potting soil / new potting soil for growth / natural clay soil for when the plants are bigger.

Does this make sense? Or should I just chuck it in the ground?

Thanks

 

[TreeBee]

I'm about to try to grow outside for the first time. I have 2 plants vegging in pots outside fully hardened off. I've identified the place in my yard that gets the best light. I want to put them in the ground instead of a big pot due to expense and not wanting to water that much.

My ground is like total clay and I question the roots ability to dig in. So, instead of digging a hole exactly as big as the pot, could I dig a bigger hole and put extra putting soil? So this way the layers go: root ball in potting soil / new potting soil for growth / natural clay soil for when the plants are bigger.

Does this make sense? Or should I just chuck it in the ground?

Thanks

This is basically how I did my veggy beds. I didn't fill them with potting soil though just sifted and amended what was there.

 

[Muttley]

Place a whole fish in the hole before transplanting the shrub outdoors. Cover the fish with an inch of dirt then place the root mass right on top of, it before back-filling around the plant with rich potting soil. In as little as a couple of weeks, you will observe EXPLOSIVE growth in the plant with the leaves having a deep emerald hue thanks to the slow-release nitrogen emanating from that decaying fish. When the plant flowers, that rotten fish will ensure that the plant is weighed down with monster-sized fragrant colas that will make a believer out of you.

Bob's yer uncle

 

[Gurtgurt]

Place a whole fish in the hole before transplanting the shrub outdoors. Cover the fish with an inch of dirt then place the root mass right on top of, it before back-filling around the plant with rich potting soil. In as little as a couple of weeks, you will observe EXPLOSIVE growth in the plant with the leaves having a deep emerald hue thanks to the slow-release nitrogen emanating from that decaying fish. When the plant flowers, that rotten fish will ensure that the plant is weighed down with monster-sized fragrant colas that will make a believer out of you.

Bob's yer uncle

2 little bass for 2 little plants, lol. We'll see how they do.

Got a lot of animals around here, hope the coons don't dig them up.

 

[Muttley]

That fresh bass will work wonders for sure. Burying the fish deep enough should eliminate any odors that might interest coons. I have buried fish in plastic buckets that serve as indoor mother plant pots, and even within the close confines of my grow room, I never catch so much as a whiff of fish odor even as it rotted in the soil mere feet from where I stand to tend the plants.