Had fun sharing some plant knowledge yesterday, would love to share more!

  • niph [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Can you recommend any easy to look after houseplants that aren’t toxic to cats? Our girls are fiends who will literally chew on any leaf or piece of greenery they can reach. We tried planting some cat grass to distract them but they just knocked the pots over and got soil everywhere. We live in an apartment.

  • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    so i have a tree i put in a pot, covered with soil, and only ever added water to it. my tree’s mass has increased, yet the soil has not lost any! by what magicks was water transmuted to bark, sap, and leaf?

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Is there a good way to make homemade potting soil out of local soils that are heavily clay-dominant? Potting soils typically use perlite or vermiculite for drainage; could I sediment sand out of the soil, or would I be better off using crushed brick as larger aggregate?

    Right now my model is 2 parts sedimented soil (silt + sand = maybe 10% of total makeup), 1 part biochar, 2 parts compost.