Specialty Gardening: Container Soils: Water Movement and Retention II, 0 by tapla

tapla wrote:
Hi Melissa - I'll answer your questions, but then as gently as possible I'll ask everyone if we can try to stay focused on container soils & try not to get too conversational about off topic stuff? I'm only asking that so other readers don't have so much trouble loading the thread and wading through our off-topic conversations. I'd love to visit with anyone who wants to talk by D-mail or e-mail though? Please don't be offended. Even the fertilizer conversation is a little off-topic, but I think it ties into soils well enough that those coming to the thread for soil info could gain from reading through it?

This is all hobby for me. I get to talk to lots of growers & people from all over the world (this summer I helped a parks guy from Paris, France build a soil for their street tree plantings). Mostly they find me through surfing the net when something I've written on Dave's or GW comes up. Almost everything I've learned has been an outgrowth of my chase for knowledge that applies to the art of bonsai. If I have strengths, I'd probably say they are in soil science and plant physiology.I have several gardens & raised beds, around 200 woody plants in containers that are future bonsai candidates, a bunch of more unusual houseplants, and I do a ton of containers for display throughout the gardens & deck in the summer. I own a glazing contracting business (glass company) and I'm old enough to be a grandpa. ;o)

Ok - back to soil-related talk now .....

Al