On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:13:30 -0700, zookeeper wrote:

Mike Miller wrote:
... Whose marginals are in gravel and whose are in soil
of some type? How well do they grow? Do you fertilize, or add K at all to
your pond? ...

I don't use K, some marginals are in river rock or even just big rocks
holding them in the baskets. Arrowheads, taros, & canna are in sandy soil
and were fed when I divided and maybe one more time a month ago. Lilies,
lotus in sandy soil, fed often. Most everything is in baskets with weed
fabric liner, that many roots manage to still get thru and right out into
the water flow (a good thing). Only plants I use solid pots for are the
cattails and they are in rocks and whatever dirt they've managed to hang on
to. Everything growing great, my biggest problem this year that slow things
down was due to high pH. ~ jan



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