To provide soil for home horticulture and its production which facilitate carrying by remarkably reducing weight compared with conventional one.

This soil for home horticulture is artificial soil consisting of lumps of 3 to 27mm thickness dimension, which consists of what is obtained by dissolving used paper such as newspaper in water and then drying it and natural soil, and includes what is obtained by dissolving used paper such as newspaper in water and then drying it by at least 70wt.% of the whole soil. In addition, the production of soil for home horticulture consists of the process of dissolving used paper such as newspaper in water, the process of mixing natural soil such as red clay to this used paper dissolved in water, the process of dewatering this mixed matter, the process of disentangling this dewatered matter to be the lumps of 3 to 27mm thickness dimension and the process of drying this disentangled matter.