Tiny EdenTiny Eden: the soil mix each plant needs
An unofficial community sheet that the developers pointed players to gives every plant a soil recipe in parts out of 10, from compost, sand, clay, perlite, cocoa coir, peat moss and super compost. Nine of its 38 plants need super compost: eggplant, mint, basil, pumpkin, watermelon, cabbage, arugula, calendula and blueberry. Strawberry is the simplest, at ten parts compost.
- 38plants with a recipe in the community sheet
- 9plants that need super compost
- 7soil components, from compost to super compost
- Compost 10the whole strawberry recipe
How to read these recipes
The developers pointed players to an unofficial community spreadsheet in a Steam reply on 21 September, calling it an excellent resource. Its Plant Data Collection tab gives each of 38 plants a soil recipe in parts out of 10, built from the seven components in the game: compost, sand, clay, perlite, cocoa coir, peat moss and super compost. The sheet says it is built from community and personally gathered data, and that updates and additions will be frequent.
Next to the soil it records how full the planter may be filled with water, a temperature preference, the sunlight a plant asks for on its planter, and whether it needs pollination. Those columns are copied here as the sheet gives them, with its sun icons written out as numbers of suns. How the game reports soil targets in words is on the soil mixture page, and the seven components are on the soil page.
Treat every figure as a community reading, not a developer statement. Another community sheet, used on the greenhouse page, rates the sunlight of a number of the same plants differently.
The nine plants that need super compost
One column of the sheet asks whether a plant requires super compost, and nine of the 38 say yes: eggplant, mint, basil, pumpkin, watermelon, cabbage, arugula, calendula and blueberry. Their recipes take two to four parts super compost out of ten.
That is the list behind the stall players describe in launch week: seeds for some of these plants are on sale before the composter that makes super compost can be upgraded. How to make it, and the quest a developer says unlocks the upgrade, are on the super compost page. Calendula is the crop the Biosphere quest asks for, covered on the calendula page.
| Plant | Super compost | Full recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Eggplant | 3 of 10 | Compost 3, Perlite 2, Peat Moss 2, Super Compost 3 |
| Mint | 2 of 10 | Compost 5, Perlite 3, Super Compost 2 |
| Basil | 4 of 10 | Compost 2, Perlite 2, Peat Moss 2, Super Compost 4 |
| Pumpkin | 4 of 10 | Compost 2, Sand 2, Peat Moss 2, Super Compost 4 |
| Watermelon | 3 of 10 | Compost 2, Clay 2, Cocoa Coir 3, Super Compost 3 |
| Cabbage | 2 of 10 | Compost 4, Clay 2, Perlite 2, Super Compost 2 |
| Arugula | 2 of 10 | Compost 3, Perlite 2, Cocoa Coir 3, Super Compost 2 |
| Calendula | 2 of 10 | Compost 4, Sand 2, Peat Moss 2, Super Compost 2 |
| Blueberry | 3 of 10 | Compost 3, Clay 2, Perlite 2, Super Compost 3 |
Herbs and flowers
The twelve herbs and flowers mostly use compost with one or two other components. Chamomile is the sand-heavy one at seven parts sand, parsley takes six, pansies and cress take four parts cocoa coir, and rose takes two.
Basil, mint and calendula are the three in this group that need super compost. Nine of the twelve are listed as needing pollination, the exceptions being cornflower, parsley and chamomile, which is worth knowing before you fill a shelf; the companion planting page covers pollination.
| Plant | Soil, in parts out of 10 | Water, max fill | Temperature | Sunlight | Pollination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parsley | Compost 4, Sand 6 | 85% | 5-35°C | 3 suns | No |
| Chamomile | Compost 3, Sand 7 | 82% | 5-35°C | 2 or 3 suns | No |
| Thyme | Compost 5, Sand 2, Clay 3 | 76% | 5-35°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
| Basil | Compost 2, Perlite 2, Peat Moss 2, Super Compost 4 | 82% | 10-30°C | 2 suns | Yes |
| Mint | Compost 5, Perlite 3, Super Compost 2 | 85% | 5-35°C | Any | Yes |
| Lavender | Compost 5, Clay 3, Perlite 2 | 83% | 5-35°C | Any | Yes |
| Cornflower | Compost 7, Sand 3 | 81% | 5-35°C | 2 or 3 suns | No |
| Pansies | Compost 2, Sand 2, Perlite 2, Cocoa Coir 4 | 86% | 10-30°C | 1 or 2 suns | Yes |
| Poppy | Compost 4, Clay 2, Perlite 2, Peat Moss 2 | 81% | 5-35°C | Any | Yes |
| Calendula | Compost 4, Sand 2, Peat Moss 2, Super Compost 2 | 86% | 5-35°C | Any | Yes |
| Rose | Compost 4, Sand 2, Cocoa Coir 2, Peat Moss 2 | 81% | 5-35°C | Any | Yes |
| Cress | Compost 2, Sand 2, Cocoa Coir 4, Peat Moss 2 | 85% | 5-25°C | 1 or 2 suns | Yes |
Leaves and brassicas
Pak choi, lettuce, spinach, arugula, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower make up the leafy group. Arugula and cabbage are the two that ask for super compost, at two parts each. None of the seven asks for more than two suns in this sheet, and five of them prefer the cool 5-25 °C band.
These are also plants with particular planters: lettuce, for instance, grows in the two deep planters according to the developers. See which planter each crop needs.
| Plant | Soil, in parts out of 10 | Water, max fill | Temperature | Sunlight | Pollination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pak Choi | Compost 6, Sand 4 | 81% | 5-35°C | Any | No |
| Lettuce | Compost 4, Sand 2, Peat Moss 4 | 80% | 5-25°C | 1 or 2 suns | Yes |
| Spinach | Compost 5, Perlite 2, Peat Moss 3 | 81% | 5-25°C | 1 sun | Yes |
| Arugula | Compost 3, Perlite 2, Cocoa Coir 3, Super Compost 2 | 84% | 5-35°C | 1 sun | Yes |
| Cabbage | Compost 4, Clay 2, Perlite 2, Super Compost 2 | 80% | 5-25°C | 1 or 2 suns | Yes |
| Broccoli | Compost 5, Clay 3, Peat Moss 2 | 86% | 5-25°C | 1 or 2 suns | Yes |
| Cauliflower | Compost 4, Sand 3, Clay 3 | 80% | 5-25°C | 1 or 2 suns | Yes |
Peas, beans and fruiting plants
Strawberry has the simplest recipe in the sheet, ten parts compost and nothing else, while beans are eight parts compost and two parts sand. The peppers, tomato and cucumber all sit in the warm 10-40 °C band and need pollination.
Eggplant, pumpkin, watermelon and blueberry need super compost. Zucchini, which players say is hard to light, is listed at three suns in this sheet; the light question is on the not enough sunlight page.
| Plant | Soil, in parts out of 10 | Water, max fill | Temperature | Sunlight | Pollination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry | Compost 10 | 99% | 10-40°C | Any | No |
| Cucumber | Compost 6, Perlite 4 | 83% | 10-40°C | Any | Yes |
| Bell Pepper | Compost 5, Sand 2, Perlite 3 | 86% | 10-40°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
| Chili Pepper | Compost 6, Sand 2, Clay 2 | 80% | 10-40°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
| Tomato | Compost 6, Clay 2, Perlite 2 | 80% | 10-40°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
| Eggplant | Compost 3, Perlite 2, Peat Moss 2, Super Compost 3 | 84% | 10-40°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
| Pumpkin | Compost 2, Sand 2, Peat Moss 2, Super Compost 4 | 82% | 5-35°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
| Watermelon | Compost 2, Clay 2, Cocoa Coir 3, Super Compost 3 | 86% | 10-40°C | 3 suns | Yes |
| Blueberry | Compost 3, Clay 2, Perlite 2, Super Compost 3 | 86% | 5-25°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
| Zucchini | Compost 4, Sand 2, Perlite 2, Peat Moss 2 | 80% | 5-35°C | 3 suns | Yes |
| Peas | Compost 5, Sand 5 | 77% | 5-25°C | 2 or 3 suns | No |
| Beans | Compost 8, Sand 2 | 80% | 5-35°C | Any | No |
Root vegetables
The seven root vegetables are onion, radish, carrot, garlic, red beet, potato and turnip, and none of them needs super compost. Onion and radish use perlite, carrot uses clay and perlite, and garlic mixes compost with perlite, cocoa coir and peat moss.
The threads about onions are collected on the onion page.
| Plant | Soil, in parts out of 10 | Water, max fill | Temperature | Sunlight | Pollination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onion | Compost 4, Sand 2, Perlite 4 | 86% | 5-25°C | 3 suns | No |
| Radish | Compost 5, Sand 3, Perlite 2 | 84% | 5-25°C | Any | No |
| Carrot | Compost 4, Clay 4, Perlite 2 | 84% | 5-25°C | 1 sun | Yes |
| Garlic | Compost 2, Perlite 2, Cocoa Coir 3, Peat Moss 3 | 80% | 5-25°C | 1 sun | Yes |
| Red Beet | Compost 3, Clay 4, Peat Moss 3 | 84% | 5-25°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
| Potato | Compost 3, Clay 3, Peat Moss 4 | 84% | 5-35°C | Any | Yes |
| Turnip | Compost 2, Clay 3, Perlite 2, Cocoa Coir 3 | 78% | 5-35°C | 2 or 3 suns | Yes |
Plants that share a mix
A separate tab of the sheet, Soil Requirements Similarity Check, lists the plants whose recipes are similar. When soil is short, it is the quickest way to see which plants are close enough that one mix may serve several.
The sheet also names ten plants with no similar partner: zucchini, pansies, lettuce, poppy, garlic, spinach, arugula, turnip, watermelon and strawberry.
- Calendula and pumpkin
- Eggplant and basil
- Cabbage and blueberry
- Cress and rose
- Broccoli, red beet and potato
- Carrot, lavender and tomato
- Bell pepper, radish and onion
- Mint and cucumber
- Chili pepper, cauliflower and thyme
- Beans, chamomile, cornflower, pak choi, parsley and peas
Not confirmed yet
- The sheet is unofficial and still being filled in; the developers have not published their own soil recipes.
- How the sheet's recipe figures map onto the soil targets the planter shows in the game is not stated.
- Whether the recipes still match the game after the latest updates is not confirmed.
Frequently asked
- Which plants need super compost in Tiny Eden?
- Nine of the 38 plants in the community sheet: eggplant, mint, basil, pumpkin, watermelon, cabbage, arugula, calendula and blueberry.
- What soil does a strawberry need?
- Ten parts compost and nothing else, according to the community sheet.
- Do all plants use the same soil?
- No. The sheet gives each plant its own recipe, and groups the plants whose recipes are similar, such as calendula with pumpkin and eggplant with basil.
- Is this an official list?
- No. It is an unofficial community sheet that the developers linked in a Steam reply. The sheet says it is still being filled in.
Sources
- Unofficial community sheet “Tiny Eden – Plants, Planters and More” (linked by the developers on Steam, 21 Sep 2026)
- Steam thread: “Roses and melons”
Every fact here is drawn from the official sources above. Points the developers have not confirmed are marked as not confirmed rather than guessed.