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Hi
What are your thoughts on planting pond plants in standard garden clay. When I dug the pond last year I had about 2ft of top soil and then straight into clay. I just fancied doing quite a lot of planting / transplating & wanted to avoid the cost of buying a lot of compost from the pond shop. Or any other suggestion .................? Cheers David |
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I plant them in plain sandy dirt. Mostly sand. Others are bare root.
They thrived last year. Clay works too. W. Dale David Sim wrote: Hi What are your thoughts on planting pond plants in standard garden clay. When I dug the pond last year I had about 2ft of top soil and then straight into clay. I just fancied doing quite a lot of planting / transplating & wanted to avoid the cost of buying a lot of compost from the pond shop. Or any other suggestion .................? Cheers David |
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"David Sim" wrote in message ... Hi What are your thoughts on planting pond plants in standard garden clay. When I dug the pond last year I had about 2ft of top soil and then straight into clay. Straight clay would have little plant nutrition and would surely work it's way out of the pots in time, muddying the pond water. That type of clay is only good for fill dirt in my opinion. I just fancied doing quite a lot of planting / transplating & wanted to avoid the cost of buying a lot of compost from the pond shop. Real compost? That's too high in organic matter and surely will give you the mother of all algae blooms. I use plain told heavy topsoil from a clean area, cover it with large gravel and my pond plants thrive. I only fertilize the lilies for better and more blooms. -- Koi-Lo.... Frugal ponding since 1995. Aquariums since 1952. My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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That's all I use w/ 1" - 2" river stones on top to keep fish from rooting
around in it and a couple of pond tabs at start of season Gale :~) "David Sim" wrote in message ... Hi What are your thoughts on planting pond plants in standard garden clay. When I dug the pond last year I had about 2ft of top soil and then straight into clay. I just fancied doing quite a lot of planting / transplating & wanted to avoid the cost of buying a lot of compost from the pond shop. Or any other suggestion .................? Cheers David |
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