Re: Performing experiments with Henna plants. . .

Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on March 11, 2000 at 17:08:23:

In Reply to: Re: Performing experiments with Henna plants. . . posted by P.J. on March 11, 2000 at 15:53:02:

The soils henna seems to grow in naturally aren't especially fertile
soils .... but they drain easily, and get occasional drenchings of
rich muck. Riverbank sort of thing.
Compost tea is what's in the mucky puddly part of the riverbank where
you DON'T go swimming . The brown stinky schlukky puddles. Put layes
of dead leaves, rotting vegetation (kitchen veggie scraps) , dried
manure (horse or cow)(available from garden shops), grass clippings,
in a dead trash can that's rusted through the bottom. Stand the trash
can on a couple of bricks, and put a pan under the trash can. Let it
get rained on. Nice Buffalo acid rain off Lake Erie should be
perfect. The brown gackky drippings that drain into the pan will be
your compost tea. Keep your barrel in the sun. Hot compost is good.
If Lake Erie weren't so full of stuff that's not good for Lamu, you
could just go get some bags of gunk from the waterside ..... but with
the salt and petrochemical runoff from the highways .... probably
make the poor fellow weep.

I'd give Lamu a cup of compost tea every month.

Save your compost .... dig it into a flower bed. Great for plants.

Beyond that .... I'd look into back issues of High Times for growing
ideas. I really think marijuana cultivation may be in many ways
similar to henna cultivation.

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