Does Anyone Use Shade Sails for Plants?
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does anyone here love full sail?
Comments (5)Thanks so much for your answers. Very helpful all! Will wait and see. :) It is planted in an area that easily gets well over 60F during our summers. I probably ought to move it before it gets too hot there. But given the free time I have, I'll just have to keep it well watered for now. Can hardly wait to see and smell the first bloom. Full Sail is planted next to Falling In Love. FIL's first bloom was really beautiful and had a light sweet scent that I very much enjoyed. Trying this couple of 'new-to-me' roses, this year, is proving quite fun. Thanks again!...See MoreDoes anyone use that 'Myke Product' for your planting?
Comments (5)I've used the darn stuff before, and if I recall, the shrubs died. I use a liquid form of CIL Plant Starter if I can find it in the garage when I'm planting. It's in a yellow container with a green lid. I also use compost if I have some ready. I'm not sure if the CIL is helping. Maybe, maybe not. Likely my shrubs, trees, and rose bushes would have survived anyway. When the bottle is empty I'm not likely to buy it again. My soil has been almost completely unadulterated for the past 7 years, so that may have something to do with my thoughts on things surviving without use of anything other than water and compost. =:)...See MoreDoes anyone use Cal_Mag on their plants?
Comments (3)when they busted all the pot growers in Houston there were gallons and gallons of this stuff! Tally HO!...See MoreDoes Anyone Use Filtered Water for Their Tomato Plants?
Comments (18)Corrie, Here is another advert I just read re: eliminating chloramine: Removing Chloramines from Water Chloramine, which consists of a mixture of chlorine and ammonia, is added to the water of many cities as a substitute for free chlorine. It is often referred to in the plural, as "chloramines," because it can take on a number of forms according to the pH and mineral content of the water. The whole reduction discussion for chloramines can become quite complex, but the main thing you need to know is that chloramine is removed from water with essentially the same strategies that are used to remove chlorine. This means that carbon filtration is the best removal method, and, contrary to urban legends, filter carbon does indeed remove chloramine. The problem is that it takes more carbon and more contact time to do the job. In practical terms this means that if your city disinfects your tap water with chloramines youÂll need to get a larger and better carbon filter than you would need if chlorine alone were used. For drinking water you can consider high quality carbon units like Multi-Pure, or double and triple units that use lots of carbon. And, contrary to another widely promoted myth, reverse osmosis units do remove chloramine. In fact, they do it well, because any good RO unit contains a couple of carbon filters and the water gets an extra slow pass through the first one. In choosing carbon for chloramine removal, a specially prepared carbon called "catalytic" carbon is far superior to regular carbon. Catalytic carbon is a specifically processed grade of filter carbon that is designed especially for, among other things, exceptional chloramine removal. Your thoughts?? Raybo...See Morenil13
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