RP> You can also try leeching out the accumulated "salts" by simply
RP> running water through the pots for a few hours.  In the compost
My chosen method is to take one hanging basket into the shower
with me each morning. "Save water, shower with a frond" is my
motto. The water from the shower spray isn't hot enough to damage
the plants, which get a good soaking, the leaves and pots get a
mild soapy rinse-off, and the pot drains in the bath until excess
water can be tipped from the saucer.
Each plant waits (excitedly!) for its turn, day by day, and gets
a good hosing down and a drink, after which, it has to go back to
the business of spreading roots throughout its soil to locate
every last drop of water. The plants talk amongst themselves
calling it "Going to Vancouver" (g!)
MB>with it.  I had added some dolomite to it, but not sure if I
Dolomite, as in Italian Alps, is a Calcium Carbonate, isn't it,
in highly compressed (metamorphosed) form? As such I suspect it
acts as an agent at reducing acidity, as we know well from adding
a cup of vinegar (acid) to a tablespoon of baking soda (variously
Na2CO3 or NaHCO3).
This leads me to wonder about the wisdom of adding a pinch or
spray of baking soda to soil to neutralise any stray acids? The
by-prodcuts would be Sodium salts (Na) which rinse out quickly,
and carbon dioxide and water.
Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com    www.Interlog.Com/~CGreaves
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