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Geoff
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Back to Compo's potting mix question.
I've found my fertiliser notes which seem to suggest if you use a 6" pot as your measure a JI3 equivalent would need about 60 gm fish, blood and bone in the 6½ pot mix. I think that is too much but I can't see the error in my calculations, I use about 35 to 45 gm (I use 6 little scoopfuls and I've just weighed them!).
I've found my fertiliser notes which seem to suggest if you use a 6" pot as your measure a JI3 equivalent would need about 60 gm fish, blood and bone in the 6½ pot mix. I think that is too much but I can't see the error in my calculations, I use about 35 to 45 gm (I use 6 little scoopfuls and I've just weighed them!).
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Clive.
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So sorry to read your news Robo.
I had put another post up, but quickly removed it, as it was one of my off the cuff updates and not appropriate to leave in place after I spotted your sad update in the thread, which I initially missed.
..and to add a thought ref Compo's/Geoff compost mix. We used to make up a soil based compost at work...only down side was that we couldn't sterilise the soil and we used to have to be busy picking out weed seedlings. The real bonus I felt of having a degree of soil in the mix was a subsequent much better transference to the open ground, real world, on planting out.
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I had put another post up, but quickly removed it, as it was one of my off the cuff updates and not appropriate to leave in place after I spotted your sad update in the thread, which I initially missed.
..and to add a thought ref Compo's/Geoff compost mix. We used to make up a soil based compost at work...only down side was that we couldn't sterilise the soil and we used to have to be busy picking out weed seedlings. The real bonus I felt of having a degree of soil in the mix was a subsequent much better transference to the open ground, real world, on planting out.
C.
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retropants
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So sorry robo x
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Primrose
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Robo, I am so sorry and send you my sincere sympathy.
Three years is a long time to battle. In the difficult days ahead i hope you will strengthens by the memory of what you have had rather than what you have lost.
Three years is a long time to battle. In the difficult days ahead i hope you will strengthens by the memory of what you have had rather than what you have lost.
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oldherbaceous
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So sorry to read of your loss Robo...life can be so unfair at times...
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There's no fool like an old fool.
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tigerburnie
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So sorry to hear that Robo, condolences.
Been gardening for over 65 years and still learning.
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alan refail
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So sorry to hear of your loss, Robo. My thoughts are with you at this time of grief.
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
