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Though horticulture indoors is n’t my favorite , and neither is garden in potful , we have had good success using non - conventional “ potting commixture ” when we ’ve been forced to container garden .
As I stated in my response , chunks of wood and sticks and non - synthetic wearable can be placed in the bottom of containers or even in raised beds to make full in place . Old clothing – and finally moulder wood – will play as a artificial lake for moisture .
There are quite a few unmatched socks in the bottom of the half - barrels where I pottedmy dwarf coconut palms . There are also chunk of rotten magnolia wood along with sticks and leaves .
If you ’re buying potting dirt , it let quite expensive to fill larger container . On a minor scale , we often clobber evenfall exit in the bottom of pot first , satiate them about 1/3 full , then cover that with potting mixture . Though you would conceive this might “ rob nitrogen , ” it does n’t seem to be a trouble .
If a plant starts to bet a chip yellow , we foliar feed it by mist the leaves with a fertilizer result , whether that be a commercially get dilute fluid fertilizer , or compost tea , or Dave ’s Fetid Swamp Water .
My current potting commixture for the nursery consists of rotten pine shreds from a sawmill , decomposed peanut waste from a shell facility , pine barque with a picayune soil mix in , dried cow manure , compost if we have it , and a generous sparge of pulverized limestone . We ’re always trying to figure out how we can source materials topically and avoid having to purchase mixes . Besides , buying peat moss from Canada and perlite from who - know - where and having them shipped to Lower Alabama just does make signified to me .
Other alternate material we ’ve added include biochar , foliage moulding , grit from a steam bed , insect castings , rotten hardwood barque , rabbit manure , ashes , coffee grounds , crushed termite nest , and rotten woods from honest-to-god tree see in the forest .
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