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Wed, May 2, 12 at 11:34
| Hi, all!
'Must be brain-dead, but for the life of me I can't figure out if I should just transplant an astilbe, that's been in the garden, w/ its soil & all directly into the container....OR to spray off all the garden soil & plant it in potting soil in the container. Either way, it's going into a container in my garden. What say you? I appreciate your advice! Melissa |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 13:19
| one uses potting MEDIA in a pot.. since it is made for a pot.. pot..pot ... MEDIA ...MEDIA ...MEDIA ... no where in that sentence ... does it suggest you stuff mother earth .. aka SOIL.. into a pot .. one or the other is best.. not half and half ... make sense ken |
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- Posted by mycitygarden 5 (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 13:33
| yeah, ken...I told you I was brain dead...perhaps I was distracted by the rather amusing hosta forum video on how to extract a hosta from Don R.'s pot to give it back to him...THAT was 'garden soil'...and perhaps I was just disgusted AND distracted by how badly astilbes 'thrive' in my garden b/c it's just probably TOO dark & too full of CLAY....*sigh*...thanks for letting me RANT... I'm going to go home to my poor astilbe after school & rescue it. Thanks for responding so quickly! (were you hovering? LOL) Melissa |
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