June 17, 2019 Reusing Potting Soil, Edwin Hunt, James Weldon Johnson, Alexander Braun, Nellie McClung, the University of Wisconsin's Arboretum, Emily Dickenson, Joanne Shaw, The Plant Hunters by Carolyn Fry, Geranium Care, and Lajos Kossuth

The Daily Gardener · Jun 17, 2019 · 9m

Do you change the oil in your window boxes and containers every spring?

You really don't need to - I don't. Here's what I do:

I remove about a quarter to a third of the soil in my containers, and I put it in my potting soil bin.

Then, I add a little perlite and compost to the original container, and that's it.

Any extra potting soil that I have leftover in my bin, I use for new containers.

Brevities

#OTD It was on this day in 1869 that the botanist Edwin Hunt collected the last known specimen of Arethusa bulbosa in the old Oriskany swamp in New York.

Arethusa bulbosa is known as Dragon's…