WAS Anderson deep propagation flats; Now lowering the water table in pots
penstemon (Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:54:58 PDT)
I don't use many band pots (the term for the kind of open-based pots
being discussed here), but when I do, I crumble some oak leaves coarsely
to put in the bottom, since I don't have screen handy to cut up in
little squares as done by growers who use band pots a lot. I don't think
this creates a perched water table in the mix I use, which does not
contain Perlite,
A perched water table is unavoidable in containers. Gravity, and all that stuff.
This is pretty good, though does employ the word “drainage”, which makes me grit my teeth. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nursery-weeds/…
Bob Nold
Denver, Colorado, USA
where it rained for the first time in three months.
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