Re: coffee grounds as acidifiers
- Subject: Re: coffee grounds as acidifiers
- From: L* R*
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:16:41 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Bob Beer wrote:
> Tres cool. :) Do you have to water these a lot, or are they fairly drought
> tolerant?
>
> bob
>
Polypodium ferns (mostly P. glycyrhiza, but also P. scouleri along the
coast) are winter-growing and summer dormant in much of the
pacific Northwest and northern California. They typically grow on heavy
horizontal branches, especially of deciduous trees, after these have built
up heavy moss. My coffee-grounds trick is to speed up the succession to a
heavy epiphyte load.
These really contriubte to the "rain forest" look of places like the
Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Which also has a "mediterranean" summer
drought. It's nice to have them in the back yard.
loren russell, corvallis, oregon
