Agree, I bought a tray of 12 very sad looking plants from B&Q last wk (can't think of their name but they have lovely silver leaves) for 50p ( a healthy single one was on sale for £2.99). All were dry as a bone in these teabags, but now having had the teabags removed, watered and potted up they are looking like totally different plants, I so love a challenge and a bargin!
Interesting about the teabag plants. I didn't know you were meant to take the covering off, I thought it was supposed to biodegrade - until I noticed that actual teabags don't! Then I discovered some plants which weren't doing well had been bought in pots and planted out, but I hadn't realised that they were tightly esconsed in the 'teabags' in the middle of the pot, but when I dug them up, I discovered them, and they're getting a chance at freedom!
I've found they go dry inside the bag too. You're supposed to be able to plant them but after some disasters I always remove them.
I also stopped washing pots and trays after hearing nurseryman Bob Brown say 'What do plants grow in? Dirt! Washing pots is a waste of time!' I do wash for seeds and cuttings that are going in one of my heated propagators, or for indoor plants. Everything else, I don't bother and I've never had a problem. And I've potted thousands!
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Agree, I bought a tray of 12 very sad looking plants from B&Q last wk (can't think of their name but they have lovely silver leaves) for 50p ( a healthy single one was on sale for £2.99). All were dry as a bone in these teabags, but now having had the teabags removed, watered and potted up they are looking like totally different plants, I so love a challenge and a bargin!
Interesting about the teabag plants. I didn't know you were meant to take the covering off, I thought it was supposed to biodegrade - until I noticed that actual teabags don't! Then I discovered some plants which weren't doing well had been bought in pots and planted out, but I hadn't realised that they were tightly esconsed in the 'teabags' in the middle of the pot, but when I dug them up, I discovered them, and they're getting a chance at freedom!
I've found they go dry inside the bag too. You're supposed to be able to plant them but after some disasters I always remove them.
I also stopped washing pots and trays after hearing nurseryman Bob Brown say 'What do plants grow in? Dirt! Washing pots is a waste of time!' I do wash for seeds and cuttings that are going in one of my heated propagators, or for indoor plants. Everything else, I don't bother and I've never had a problem. And I've potted thousands!
I don't wash pots either, just wouldn't have the time.
I hope it wasn't from your ear, Jo!