dick benbow
02-01-2010, 12:21 PM
Started yesterday to sift my soil for satsuki's. Opened up a bag and found three sizes. Small, med and large. The larger size i lay on the bottom of the pot for drainage. The mid sized I use to repot the azalea, and the small is a top dressing.
My pine soil I use double red line akadama. I Sift it but mix it with the same medium sized soil known as Kiryu. The main effort here is to get rid of the dust. I lay a layer of perlite down for drainage then mix the akadama and Kiryu
for the soil to plant the pines in.
Anyway, repotting starts end of the month so I have to get busy and start
sifting. All the soils i use for my good trees comes from Japan. There is a local mix of pine bark, red volcanic and perlite that I use for my quinces.
They have started blooming already as here in the Pac NW we have had the warmest january on record. Avg mean temp for day and night was 47 F.
I brought in a nice quince showing color yesterday to display in my tokonoma
along with a Violet companion plant. Looked nice for company and then back outside after they left...:)
My pine soil I use double red line akadama. I Sift it but mix it with the same medium sized soil known as Kiryu. The main effort here is to get rid of the dust. I lay a layer of perlite down for drainage then mix the akadama and Kiryu
for the soil to plant the pines in.
Anyway, repotting starts end of the month so I have to get busy and start
sifting. All the soils i use for my good trees comes from Japan. There is a local mix of pine bark, red volcanic and perlite that I use for my quinces.
They have started blooming already as here in the Pac NW we have had the warmest january on record. Avg mean temp for day and night was 47 F.
I brought in a nice quince showing color yesterday to display in my tokonoma
along with a Violet companion plant. Looked nice for company and then back outside after they left...:)