Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Eggplant stump & branch pot comparison


Well I couldn't resist digging up my eggplant stumppot.  It was doing so well, I just had to see what was going on in the roots.

Here is a slideshow showing what I found and also how it compared to the other eggplant in a branchpot.


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  1. enjoying your posts. I have a container garden on my porch using homemade earthboxes of various types and a few bucket gardens. I am presently an apartment dweller and live on the edge of a nature preserve in Alexandria VA. I have one or two failed pots and am going off to collect some branches for small scale stumps to put in the bottom. I cannot stand the traditional plastic covers on my selfwatering pots and am using old half rotted grass clippings and rotted tree inards as my top mulch. Since I am on a patio and under the one above me I don't even get dew on my planters. No ready supply of wood chips here.
    I was struck by something you haven't mentioned. Earthworms. As sweet and succulent as a squash is ( just notice the ants all over them) the mole was not eating the roots. Normally when I am out in the forest trying to replenish the worms in my crude worm farm i always find them under tree bark on the forest bed. Can't prove it but I wonder if the roots of the squash are also looking for the worm droppings. See if you have worms in any particular spots around the garden. They might be the primary food source for moles.
    "Is a mole herbivore carnivore omnivore?
    a mole eats: earthworms, centipedes, millipedes, snails, slugs, ants, bettles, termites, crikets" OK. going out to forage a bit in the forest and get ready for some repotting.
    here is a slightly older video of my patio
    http://youtu.be/71kNzUeSCCg

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  2. Hi Dan,

    I used self-watering, bottom wicking, containers for about a decade,
    before switching to traditional containers. The extra drainage promoted better growth, the SWCs do stay quite wet.

    Wouldn't recommend branches for SWC's they'd just keep it wetter than it already is.

    For one of my next tubs, I plan on using rotted wood in the top third of the tub, no rotted wood in the middle or bottom. And then maybe dry unrotted branches placed vertically in the bottom.

    Yes worms are great for fertilizer and aeration. Will post some nice pictures of roots growing into "worm holes".

    Not sure if I have mole, I believe they were gophers. Some of the tunnels were probably abandoned as I did bait and trap them this year.
    Some of the active holes had great roots in them. Only the roots didn't dangle, but grew just up against the inside walls.

    Cheers

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  3. This is brilliant stuff - I'm going to link to your post and vid at my own blog. I wish more of us would take your approach to experimentation and documentation. Good work.

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  4. Brought here by David... thanks for this post. Just made three stump pots yesterday. It is the perfect next step in the evolution of my garden. I had taken to filling the bottom 3rd of my pots with sticks and dry brush, but since I have a good supply of logs here, this is a perfect match. Also, hadn't thought of the implications of having buried wood *higher up* instead of at the bottom. Looking forward to working with this.

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  5. Please come back let me know how your stump pots work out. I'm very interested in how they work for other people. There are a lot of variables at play that could vary the results.

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