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Old 06-07-2015, 03:03 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren[_3_] Nick Maclaren[_3_] is offline
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Default oxygen saturation in water butts

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Fran Farmer wrote:

I'm not finding much information on root oxygenation. I'm only finding
information in hydroponics sites (which accords with the indoor growers
of certain substances as a source) but that doesn't seem to have a great
deal of application to gardens or my water tanks (=huge butts). I'll
keep hunting.


Try looking for root aeration. I am pretty sure that plants that
can live in bogs and stagnant water can live without oxygen at
their roots, but almost all others need it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.