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Title: Planting out things from 3" pots
Post by: Georgie on May 05, 2006, 20:05:09

My sunny border is already fairly well stocked and I mulched it with cocoa shells back in March.  This makes planting out new specimens quite difficult as (a) there's little room to work with a spade and (b) the cocoa mulch tends to crack and break,even if I use a trowel.  So today I hit on a bright idea. I used a bulb planter down it's full depth, back filled with compost and bonemeal to the required depth and then popped the plants in.  It worked a treat.  :D

G x

Title: Re: Planting out things from 3" pots
Post by: supersprout on May 05, 2006, 21:30:35

Clever stuff G, is your bulb planter the hand model or the tall one? :D

I used cocoa shell mulch once ten years ago. The garden reeked of chocolate for a day or so, then the wind came and blew it all over Hertfordshire >:( ;)

Title: Re: Planting out things from 3" pots
Post by: Georgie on May 05, 2006, 21:32:49

LOL SS, you are supposed to water it down!!!

G xx

Title: Re: Planting out things from 3" pots
Post by: supersprout on May 05, 2006, 21:34:04

:-[ not the first time I've heard that advice G, first time relating to cocoa shell mulch though ;D

Title: Re: Planting out things from 3" pots
Post by: Georgie on May 05, 2006, 21:36:10

Oh what are you like?  ROFL!   ;D

G xx