Roosterlorn said:Rick--your high nitrogen addition to green leaves is interesting. So, the nitrogen never was consumed or lost in the process, only being used in the process of decomposition, and then slowly released again. as decomposition was completed. No wonder your Dots and Dashes grew so well. Innovative manipulation of nitrogen, Rick.
That's exactly right. The gamble was not whether to add a lot of nitrogen, but how much. And when it is re-released into the soil after organic decomposition, it's in a more efficiently usable fashion, i.e. along with other nutrients and natural chemicals need by plants. I keep saying that compost is practically a cure-all, and this is yet another example.
I meant to expound about container fertilizing differentiation from the garden, as I alluded to it in the first sentence of my original post. Thanks for doing it for me, Lorn.
N.B. The "Dots and Dashs" name has no "e". From the horse's mouth, Hugh Cocker said that the RHS didn't want to allow his purposeful misspelling, but he won in the end.
