[IBC] repotting
 

As usual (!) I didn't make up enough soil. I mixed two large
paint buckets full of soil this winter. Surely that would be
enough. This wasn't to be a big repotting year, after all.

But I still have my largest -- a boxwood -- to repot and I'm
soilless. So back to the mixing table. :-(

I had to repot a couple that I hadn't planned for; pots broke
sometime over the winter. Don't know when -- or why; it was a
VERY warm winter, with fewer than a half dozen below-freezing
nights (but seven gazillion unpleasant, cold, gray, rainy days!).

Aside from my boxwood, I still have my tiny trees to do --
haven't touched the bucket of fine soil yet, and I'll get a
little more for it when I mix enough for the boxwood.

This is the earliest that I've been "done." We still could have
a freeze (March 16 is average last frost -- and we had a killer
in April two years ago) but I really doubt it this year. Of
course, I'll have at least one Satsuki to pot up sometime in May.
Maybe two.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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