Mud puddle
03 June 2007 17:32 Filed in: Planting
Today has definitely been pond readiness day, sadly
pond day looks a fortnight away, but it's been good
fun.
For a start I trekked across town to buy planting baskets so I could pot all the bare-rooted pond plants today, and get everything else potted eventually. So starting with 17 pieces of sweet flag I separated them into five huge planting baskets
Potted them with garden mix and then put a layer of black gravel over the top. Then (and this is where I get to the cunning/odd bit) I put them in sets into the bath, then gradually filled the bath with water so they were completely submerged, left them for an hour, let them drain slowly and put them out on the deck.
My theory is that this has both proven that there's enough gravel to stop everything escaping once they go on the pond and given everything a proper soaking after potting.
For a start I trekked across town to buy planting baskets so I could pot all the bare-rooted pond plants today, and get everything else potted eventually. So starting with 17 pieces of sweet flag I separated them into five huge planting baskets
Potted them with garden mix and then put a layer of black gravel over the top. Then (and this is where I get to the cunning/odd bit) I put them in sets into the bath, then gradually filled the bath with water so they were completely submerged, left them for an hour, let them drain slowly and put them out on the deck.
My theory is that this has both proven that there's enough gravel to stop everything escaping once they go on the pond and given everything a proper soaking after potting.
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