Heya Bill,

Well... it'd certainly be easy as I have good sources for the inorganic
components

Does this have a significant impact on water/nutrient retention? Can you
provide an example recipe? What you use for moisture retention and how you
adjusted it's portion when you dropped the organic component?

Best,
/jhd

"Corcoran. Bil" wrote in message
news:672C834D0A1E974CB1B26D66252A6B41076289@mail01 .kings.edu...
Or option 4)

Don't use ANY organic component. I dropped out the organic component
this year for exactly the reasons you're stating here.

Wmcorcor
NEPA Zone 4-5

== -----Original Message-----
== From: Internet Bonsai Club ] On
Behalf
== Of John Dhom
== Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:25 PM
== To:
== Subject: [IBC] Bonsai mix - source for organic component(s)
==
== Hey all,
==
== I'm spending inordinate amounts of time sieving my organic material
and
== could use some encouraging words regarding a) better sources, b)
better
== materials, c) better techniques, d) better tools. Currently I'm
using
== pine
== bark, by the bag from lowes/home despot. Typically I double screen
into
== 2 or
== 3 sizes. Too much wood parts to pull out and too little yield for
the
== effort
== expended. blah, blah, blah.


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