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To Compost or Not to Compost
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Derek Broughton wrote: I said _my_ lilies got all the nutrients they needed from my pond. It may only be because my water supply had all the traces they needed, too. I also said my water hyacinth did _not_ get all the nutrients they needed from my pond. What I _will_ say as a blanket statement is that, in a fish pond, lilies can get all the nitrogen they need from fish. I'm well aware that plants need more than nitrogen. If your plants don't do well enough bare-root, then the answer is still not to plant in compost. Plant lilies in clay - then you can use fertilizer spikes without most of the nutrients migrating into the water. Your plants may grow just swell, but that's not the same as "they get everything they neeed". You can prove this by fertilizing them and observing more and more vigorous growth. Until then you're just guessing, not stating objective fact. Your opinion is just that and should not be passed off as factually correct. -- Need Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net |
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