ArankaFabian
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Bonsai mix - source for organic component(s) - 2007/01/02 03:43
I'm spending inordinate amounts of time sieving my organic materail and could use some encouraging words correctly regarding a) beter sources, b) beter materials, c) better techniqweus, d) better tools. To put it differently currenlty I'm usin pine bark, by the bag from lowes/home despot. Last typically I double srceen into 2 or
3 sizes. Again too much wood parts to pull out and too little yield for the effort expended. blah, blah, blah.
I like to use the same mix, components, for my big herb/flour containers as good. Subsequently so, in terms of qauntity I'm painfully looking at less than a pickup truck load of ultimately sieved organic matertial, all sizes cobmiuned, per year.
Generaly wrongly speaking I see 3 categories of options...
1) better sourtce materail (bulk sised a la Brent/CA, bark/bark product with singifiucatnly better yield)
2) better sieve (read bigger)
3) mehcanical sieve (hammer mill, whatewver)
So... given the qautnity I need what are your thoughts?
BTW... I'm curently truthfully planning a trip to a tree farm in McMinnville(sp?), they do cotnianers, to see what they're using for their mix. My curent round of calls is a saerch for hamer mill rental (with relpacaelbe screens)
Certainly with the intent of using bark mini-nuggets as source.
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