Susan:

If you can acquire powdered Akadama soil and chopped spagnum moss, the two in equal combination form a superb muck for use in all rock and slab plantings.

Cordially,

Michael Persiano
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From: Kev Bailey
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Sent: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:48:21 +0100
Subject: [IBC] rock planting question


We use potters clay mixed roughly 50/50 with peat in the UK. That would be called peat moss in the USA.

Sphagnum moss is the same thing but fresh rather than rotted down for a few hundreds or thousands of years in a peat bog. I'm sure either would work equally well but the fresh moss, if kept damp enough, would regenerate a coating of new moss more rapidly.

I think your proposed mix wouldn't be sticky enough. It would probably work with the addition of some clay.

Cheers

Kev Bailey
Zone 9
N Wales, UK

What's the best thing to use to make muck for a rock planting? I read peat, but the only peat I've found is peat moss- do you just chop it up real fine? I was considering buying some of the Jiffy Pots and taking them apart, and then mixing it wil the pieces of rock I chipped off (am using featherstone)... would that work?
Susan Marsh

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