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  • From: jhecksel@voyager.net
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] agricultural sand
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:32:01 -0400

Hi Tom:

My only beef with using sand as a rooting medium is that it did not
drain as well as I expected. The bottom 4" (100mm in Canada) was
saturated. There are obvious workarounds: Coarser sand .or. perelite
in the bottom of the container .or. some way to wick the water out of
the bottom (strongly suspect capillary action/surface tension is what
kept water in bottom).

Objection does not apply to beds outside.

tolenio@sentex.net wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Hope everyone had a nice Easter, or passover.
>
> Can anyone tell me how you determine if sand is suitable for
> aricultural purposes, such as a rooting medium component?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Tom Olenio
>
>
>
>
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