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Originally Posted by Dollythehun
(I married a highly intelligent man...sometimes his intelligence and need to be right feel like getting thrown under the bus. Just sayin.')
I think this is an interesting question and it shows the OP is thinking outside the box and being environmentally conscious. It's not strange at all when you think of our grandparents saving vegetable scraps and egg shells for their compost bin, or burying coffee grounds by their plants (or my Aunt Hilda making manure tea). And then there is Jerry Baker. LOL
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Your first sentence is a hoot. I've been accused of intelligence and needing to be right. Have also learned, unfortunately in my sixties, that if not careful with my words I have the ability to come across as a pompous smartypants and whatever I'm attempting to convey gets lost in the shuffle.
I remember buying a small set of Jerry Baker "booklets" for my dad as a Christmas present when I was in my early twenties. To my surprise, many years later when assisting him into assisted living, found them fairly much untouched. When I asked why, he said he'd browsed through them but most of the "tips" were things he'd already learned from his grandparents and parents. As a much older person, I understood.
I've been raising plants since I was old enough to walk. I've raised orchids for a couple of decades or so. I still have three bottles of "orchid" fertilizer, mostly unused. Why? Because I never get around to it.
I do dunk them occasionally in the fish pond outside in summer, and when doing an inside aquarium water change use that to water with. What works for me may not work for you, and vice versa. I rarely boil a veggie, so that experiment would never happen here.
Point being... over time you'll collect more of what tolerates and flourishes in your care, and less of what doesn't. Survival of the fittest in your own micro-climate.
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