I've had to top up the compost in my tomato containers a couple of times now. Where does it go? Does it wash away, get compacted or do the tomatoes 'eat' it?
Thank you @josusa47 😊 When I'm doing mindless gardening tasks, I wonder whys pop into my head. I always get an answer on the forum. A patient and tolerant lot.
The stuff a plant is made from comes from somewhere - conservation of mass and all that. Some part of it is carbon taken out of the air, but a lot of it is minerals out of the soil. So the plants do 'eat' some of it.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When I'm doing mindless gardening tasks, I wonder whys pop into my head. I always get an answer on the forum. A patient and tolerant lot.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”