Re: Soil ammending
- Subject: Re: Soil ammending
- From: R* W*
- Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:38:30 -0400
Narda,
I here ya, the 5 gal hole is a chore. I think the 4 gallon bag is good for most
plants in the smaller range. I would think even larger for something like Blue
Angel, say a ten gallon. I really don't believe you need the full depth of
these bags, as they are made for trees, not hosta. A friend just dug up a bed
that had landscape cloth under the raised soil. Although it was deep when he
started, there was only 3 to 4 inches of soil above the cloth. The hosta was
growing fine. Which leads me to: do hosta roots need to go deep? My thinking is
10 inches is all they need. Get a bag that is wide enough to hold a mature
clump, get it as deep as possible, then cut off the excess. The plant will
still be better off without the tree root encroachment.
An added bonus of the bag: you can move the plant without damaging the roots by
digging the bag and lifting. I haven't tried it yet but it sounds feasable.
Ray
NardaA@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/6/01 8:48:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> wie1086@oh.verio.com writes:
>
> << www.mackenzie-nsy-supply.com >>
>
> Ray,
> Some very nice man sent samples of agro liner bags to me last year and I
> planted several hostas in these bags. The hostas in the bags are doing much
> better than the hostas planted in pots under my birch trees. Matter of fact
> the hostas have more than doubled in size.
>
> In looking at the choices available I cannot decide if I should buy the agro
> liner bags or the wire basket bags and also what size would be best. The
> several that I received last year were in 1.3 and 5 gallon size. So Ray,
> what do I want? Believe me digging that five gallon hole through roots was
> no fun! N.
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