Re: CULT: potting mix

<..When the snow--or ice--  comes later,..>
Snow? Ice? what the heck is that? Oh! You mean the cold version of that stuff that used to fall out of the sky now and then... what was it called? Oh yeah, rain! 

:-(
Good point tho - I'm so used to gardening in rocks or perlite in pots and mild winters, where frost heaving is minimal, except for <very> small plants (i.e., quarter inch rhizomes), that I hadn't thought about it. Rather than rocks, if needed, I might use water filled cola bottles - dampen temperature swings while anchoring rhizomes. I'll bet once this stuff freezes, it stays frozen, well insulated, like frozen wet sawdust or manure.
We haven't had enough winter to heave anything for the last 3 years, and hardly a trace of snow. But there was that winter where it hit 25 below zero and another with 2 1/2 ft of snow...
I will take your suggestion and dose them with some dilute water soluble complete with trace elements. Or maybe some dilute 'Super Bloom' 12-55-6. 

Thanks.
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