dyzzypyxxy said:
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If you have the time and patience to hover over your plants all through the growing season, and monitor their growth and color and performance, that's great and it might be fun.
Time and patience are both limited, however the more I learn, the more patience I have. Time is still limited by a 45 hour work week and other non-gardening tasks around home. I only learned recently that potting soil isn't really soil and has no nutrients, hence I've been reading more about plant nutrients and fertilizers. My wife's comparison with cooking meals from scratch pretty much killed the idea, it's just not practical for my level except on a limited basis, e.g. weeds and grass in a 5 gallon bucket sounds like it would be an easy experiment. I was mostly curious as to what others do, sounds like it goes across the entire spectrum.
