Specialty Gardening: Can I re-use the 5-1-1 mix from last year?, 1 by tapla

tapla wrote:
Oh my - where to start. First, you might ot need to screen it - it sorta depends on how the variance in particle size is proportioned. Lets look at a picture of it before you go to all that extra trouble. If you're using it in the gritty mix though, it is necessary to screen it, if you want to get the most out of the (gritty mix) soil.

It's so cool that you and GG are friends! What a small world! I wish I had more dedicated gardeners like you guys for friends. I have about 6 local friends that are actually dedicated gardeners, and the rest are sorta 'eh' about it. I will be giving a talk on Wed night to the Saginaw (MI) County Master Gardeners club. The talk's about bonsai, but before I'm done, I want to see if I can get them excited enough about soils to do a workshop on a spring weekend where they/we bring all the materials & use a portable cement mixer to make all the potting soil they need for their spring container plantings. It would be lotsa fun AND less expensive (for them) than buying bagged soils ...... and they would be getting a much better product.

I have always enjoyed Tolkien's works. Actually, I loved them! The name sounded so familiar, and I paused to admire it every time I came across it, so I wonder if that's why? I should have googled it & then I'd have known right away!. Changing gears - have you ever read "The Little Prince" by Antoine de St. Exupery? What a wonderful little book that is. At first, it seems trite, but it has soo many lessons about life and love in it, and it presents such a fresh way of looking at ourselves ....... plus, for me, it has a deep personal meaning, but that's a story for another time, or off forum, and there's a very special plant I have associated with the story. I bet you're curious now. Lol

Finally ..... I'm always pleasantly surprised when someone offers words as kind as yours, Gilraen. I don't know if she is the original recording artist, but Barbara Streisand recorded a song called "Love Comes From the Most Unexpected Places". Often, when an unexpected kindness comes my way, I'm reminded of that song; because compliments and people making the effort to be kind to others also often come unexpectedly, and the fact that they ARE unexpected, makes them seem all the more special. For the longest time, I avoided acknowledging kindnesses like yours because I thought by not acknowledging them it made me appear unconceited. I was wrong to think that way. All that matters is that for whatever reason, you felt compelled to, in so many words, say thank you. For that and the compliment, you deserve to know your expression is deeply appreciated. Thank you very much.

Say hey to GG, too, please. She's been AWOL too long!

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