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Steve McShane here with a tip on Container Gardening and it’s actually a great way, to give an example, I’ve got fruit trees here. Multiple grafted fruit trees and they are in these plastic pots. Yesterday I had my good friend Mark Segovia here, say hi Mark!
Hello there! How are you?
Anyhow, Mark and I were actually filling these pots up with compost, right. What else did we put in there?
A little fertilizer and just gave it some love, watered it really well. We filled the buckets up just so the trees would be happy.
Not more than about 2 or 3 months ago, we canned these up. What happened was, we put soil in there. Good high-grade ‘McShane’s Blend’ Soil in with these new trees and the soil level actually dropped. Mark and I brought in some fresh compost that we put to the top.
The principle is you feed the soil, in the soil is a very active, microbial colony, so as it breaks down the compost, you need to put new food on top. We did that fertilizer.
It was organic fertilizer too, and it was a job.
Anyhow, just a nursery note here, with your container gardens continue to add soil and continue to add fertilizer on a regular basis, Certainly as that soil level drops.
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Good soil info guys.
Thanks.
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I have heard that if you are using regular tap water to water your plants the chlorine in the water will kill the microbes in your soil? Is that true?
Much of the water I used I put for a day in 5 gallon buckets and place in the sun to evaporate the chlorine to use the next day. Any idea if that helps?