Covering soil of indoor plants with rocks or gravel? OK or not OK?
L Evve (Miami)
6 years ago
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Comments (22)token, "Hope you find your seeds." Me, too, it's bugging the heck out of me, but I'll worry about it after Christmas when I'm not so preoccupied. Divorce rate, not funny but couldn't help chuckling. I'm already divorced for many, many years, so it isn't because of winter sowing. It does get lonely sometimes, but after I got used to it, I developed so many interests and quirks I don't know who would put up with me (or I them). So it does have an upside. Things finally smoothed out financially so I can enjoy a few things I never was able to before....See MoreGood soil mix for repotting Indoor Jade plant (2-3 feet tall)
Comments (14)Hmm... unfortunately it's too late for that :( Hopefully this will grow and not give up on me. Finished work after pruning/ repotting is attached. Do I have to water it now or wait for a weak or two? My guess is I would expect to see some leaf shedding over the next week or so, but it should stop after that? Also ran out of perlite so bottom half of the soil is 70% perlite and top half is 50%. Top 1 inch is less than 30% and have to get some extra perlite and re-mix in that top layer. Thanks again for all the advice. Btw I got a bunch of small cuttings!!! :-) I want to try and propagate at least a couple of them. Am I able to leave the cuttings out (indoor) for a week and do this next weekend? Or put them in water or something in the meantime? I am guessing same procedure same soil mix same watering interval smaller pot (terracotta) would do. Is that correct?...See MoreRosemary indoors Ok?
Comments (46)I have a large rosemary that I have put outside (I live in Columbus, OH - zone 5b) during the summer and then bring inside in the fall before the first frost. It does okay. By the end of winter/early sping it starts to look like it will die, but when I put it outside in may, it springs back to life! I keep it in a south facing, large window and water it when it has gone completely dry. I have been doing this for 3 years now. I decorate it with Christmas lights and ornaments in December. I can't tell you how wonderful it is for a lamb-lover like myself to have fresh rosemary year-round. I would say to buy a hearty rosemary and give it a try! I can post a picture if you would like. Remember that it needs a lot of sunlight and good drainage. Without great drainage, it will die immediately....See MoreBed filled with just OK soil?
Comments (25)Funny, I think I had the same problem this spring in a bed I added soil to last fall. It was already raised about 4-6" but I raised it up in late summer with a mixture of nice dark topsoil plus a bunch of compost from the City operation. Theirs is finely screened so it's really nice. I added about 8-10" to the bed in Aug. and planted fall greens in Sept. They grew great and some survived the winter in the cold frame that I dropped on when it got really cold. This spring I planted tomatoes and they looked terrible. Pale and slow growing. I had planted some others in a different, older bed and they grew like gangbusters. I finally put some liquid fert on them and they look a little better but they are way behind. The compost had a lot of shredded wood in it (it's made from yard waste) and you can see bits and shreds in the screened material. Somehow it didn't bother the greens, which I would think need a lot of N since they are leafy, but by spring, something was definitely going on. I'll keep fertilizing and hope for the best, and maybe by next year this bed will be OK. You just never know....See MoreL Evve (Miami)
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