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Some experiments on potting soil; preliminary results
I am conducting some experiments on potting soil for I have decided to
place all strawberries and chives and onions in large pots so that I can control the weeds. So far it is working out great as the strawberry harvest is the most abundant ever. I am using regular soil as one test. I am using soil from forest woodland as another test. And I am trying out a 1/2 horsemanure to topsoil mix with the bottom 1/10 of the pot in solid horse manure. Why that? Because I find that regular soil in the entire pot becomes to heavy clay and does not drain properly. So the bottom of the pot in solid horse manure, as soon as I go to watering, that the excess immediately flows out the bottom. I have no news to report on the woodland topsoil versus the nonwoodland topsoil. But I do have news on the 1/2 horse manure 1/2 regular topsoil mix. The tomatoes, potatoes and strawberries have vigorous growth. The lettuce and spinach prefer the pure 100% topsoil as the horsemanure 1/2 mix was not suitable for them. My biggest challenge is larch or tamarack in pots, to get their acid soil just right for them. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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