Re: Re: CULT: potting mix

Linda M,

If nothing else Linda, you may be inventing something new here.
With all bad things, something good will come of it if we try hard enough,--
is my way of thinking.

And goodness knows, you are a "doer"!!!!!!!!! When all else fails you seem
to go to Plan Z.


Linda in CW AZ
-------Original Message-------

From: Linda Mann
Date: 09/06/07 17:29:52
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: [iris] 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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