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Composting and ferns

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  • Birdy13Birdy13 Posts: 595
    Careful with that salt, Hostafan, I've heard too much is bad for you! 🙂 But seriously, I'm grateful for all these contributions, and Xander Rander, yours is no invasion: the great thing here is often about the conversations that each post generates. I'll be cherry picking the bits that resonate well with me to sort out my own patch - eventually.
  • Birdy13Birdy13 Posts: 595
    That's really useful to know olliebears and supports my airliner musings about how ferns have managed to survive from prehistoric times: they are producing their own ideal compost all the time. Similarly, woodlands flourish with the constant supply of bracken based compost building up layer by layer, year on year. 
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Good to know that bracken's useful for something!
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    edited April 2018
    Hosta are you adding salt?  🤣I have a large fern garden and they are often forgotten about as it’s in the wood.  last year I scooped up a lot and the compost was like cake mix  fab
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Birdy13Birdy13 Posts: 595
    Typo in earlier post: for 'airliner' read 'earlier' 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I did wonder for a moment
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    The compost produced from ferns is acidic, which may have a bearing on what you use it for. My Meconopsis love it.
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  • Birdy13Birdy13 Posts: 595
    Isn't predictive text great? Mine knows I'm taking an aeroplane trip soon, which I AM! How does it do it? 
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Birdy13 said:
    Isn't predictive text great? Mine knows I'm taking an aeroplane trip soon, which I AM! How does it do it? 
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