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To Compost or Not to Compost
for koi, I do use those big palm sized river rock to keep the kids out of the pot. I
only repot every 3 years, and altho it is messy I dont have a problem with the roots wrapped around the gravel. I set up the new tub with good loam been sitting in water for a few hours, just plunge the root down into the muck then bring it back up to the correct height. plug in the fert tabs and cover with rocks and gravel. my comment about pea gravel is what I been told by Marilyn Buscher http://home.wi.rr.com/windyoaks/ who wholesales to the Illinois and Wisconsin. She has tried almost everything out there to make dividing, transplant and transport easier. Ingrid Derek Broughton wrote: The only problem with pea gravel is not that it doesn't provide nutrients - it's just an almighty pain to try dividing a lily whose roots have grown around a couple of kilos of gravel! The only thing wrong with Ingrid's suggestion, ime, is that topping the soil with gravel still ends up with the roots all around the gravel. It's only there to keep the koi out of the plant, and I'd use much larger stones (after all, koi can move pea gravel, anyway). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan |
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To Compost or Not to Compost
"Derek Broughton" wrote in message ... Well, I know people do it, and I guess others haven't had as much trouble as I did, but I can't see how dividing anything can be easier than dividing bare-root lilies :-) Richard's comment that "they will grow much much better with proper food" definitely applies when you're a commercial grower - then you want to fertilize and divide as often as possible. Me, I stick to bare-root because they do well enough that I have to divide annually. ================= The year I tried to grow mine bare-root and a few in just pea gravel they didn't thrive at all. They grew small leaves and there were no flowers. I went back to using rich topsoil and Jobe's fertilizer spikes. They grow leaves as large as dinner plates and flower for several months. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 *Note: There are two Koi-Lo's on the Aquaria Groups.* ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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