RE: Container Soil
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Container Soil
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:12:01 -0700
You'll get as many answers to this as people who respond. Technically
you're supposed to replace all soil, sterilize pots with a bleach water
solution, etc. I'm afraid I'm too lazy and cheap to do this.
I dump my old pot soil into a wheelbarrel and add new potting soil and
compost (quite a lot, actually). So I reuse it to some degree (maybe 1/3 to
1/2?). Excess old potting soil I just toss into the garden somewhere.
My window boxes are another story. My son built them for me and then are 4
and 5 feet in length and 12 inches deep around a bay window. Because soil
comes out through the drainage holes to some degree, I "top them off" with a
mixture of potting soil and compost and plant.
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is just a little old fashioned garden where the
flowers come together to praise the Lord and teach all
who look upon them to do likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: miles@hspower.com [m*@hspower.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 1999 2:12 PM
> To: 'Perennials'
> Subject: Container Soil
>
>
> This sounds like a dumb and somewhat OT question, but I'll
> forge on...do you change the soil in your annual containers
> from year to year, or just improve it a little and replant in
> it? The same question would apply for perennials in pots
> which didn't survive or which were moved elsewhere. I didn't
> know if the fertilizers added were building up something
> undesirable over time...
>
> Thanks in advance for advice,
> Barb in SC
> Zone 7b
>
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