Adding pond slime to plants

 

We have a lot of plants in pots. When scraping the bottom of the pond we
bring up a greenish muddy slime. Someone said they thought this would be
nutritious to mix with the soil in the plant pots. Would this be true? Would
it be likely to be on the acidic side or not?

 

  wibbled on Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:09


This bit would be easy to check with a bit of Universal (pH) Indicator,
often found in garden centres.

--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

 

john hamilton wrote:


No. As it rots it will deplete the nitrogen in the soil. Add it to the
compost heap.


No idea, but I doubt it.

--
Rusty

 



"john hamilton"  wrote .

I once saw a friend ruin a stunning bowling green type lawn by pumping that
stuff all over it. It is a bit like chicken poo, powerful stuff and will
burn plants if not diluted.
I spread the stuff from our pond around the garden and dig it in just like I
would horse manure but I wouldn't use it in pots.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 



Recently Aldi has been selling a brilliant pH meter for a quid or so.  Just
stick it in your soil and find out.  I put it in a pot of what I thought was
an ericaceous soil and lo and behold, the pH was 6.5.  Perfeck.  So at least
the gadget works.

I expect it would also work if you put it in water.

The annoying thing about most stuff to do with pH is that you have to
purchase some small quite expensive package where you only get enough
chemicals for one or two goes.

someone