Re: Hydrogels

**L* J* <l*@tds.net>**

Again...they do work beautifully in containers, but I'm willing to 
try the soy-based ones when they are available.
Lynn

At 05:31 PM 5/2/2008, you wrote:
>Hello again -
>
>So I guess what I understand from the posts over the last few days is that
>some people use hydrogels as a necessity, some people don't because 
>many of them
>break down into toxic compounds, and others think a little bit is OK.
>
>It doesn't seem to be of any interest that they don't actually work in pots
>or containers or even the garden situation? Great plant choices make 
>containers
>work well. The only use that has been proven for these hydrogels is as a
>slurry over roots for shipping bareroot plants ...a temporary situation. I've
>received mail-order plants where the gel was used in big blobs on 
>top of the soil
>to prevent soil from drying out - newspaper would have worked as 
>well and more
>economically. Packages of these materials are on every nursery counter for
>impulse buyers with a little container of hydrated polymers for 
>'show n tell'.
>Is there no role for garden writers in explaining the work of Appleton or
>Chalker-Scott and getting the information out to interested consumers?
>
>Donna Williamson
>Winchester,VA
>
>
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