Added some new pond plants but water turned all muddy :-( ...

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:01:36 GMT, "Quercus Robur" wrote:

When planting new plants in a pot. I line the pot, perforated or not, with
landscape "cloth". The fiber glass kind. Then pack the plant with
purchased "topsoil" which is almost always clay. My Koi turn anything over,
they can. I usually place the new pot in a MUCH larger one and fill the
space inbetween with 1" pebbles.
Martin

Interesting, placing pot in pot. :-)

Like Martin I line pot/basket with cheap weed fabric (I usually use plastic
baskets from Big Lots ~ 12"X18"). I then make strips out of the fabric and
lay on top of my "straight from the garden" sandy soil and large rocks on
the strips to hold them down. Hardly any of the soil escapes when I put the
plant in the pond, and none after. The nice thing is the weed fabric allows
some water movement thru as I don't get the stinky sulfur smell when I
divide those plants like I do from those in solid pots. ~ jan


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some water movement thru as I don't get the stinky sulfur smell when I
divide those plants like I do from those in solid pots. ~ jan

Well, I'd go with that technique then! The sulfur smell usually also
means hydrogen sulfide, which is toxic to fish. Probably well contained
in the pot. But. Well, never too safe to be sorry as they say.

C//