Hakone Gardens

[NYEric]

Haha! I looked at the link you posted. Everytime I read german it reminds me of my old GF! I must have been crazy!

 

[Hakone]

No, I mean the green moss on top. ??

They come alone

 

[NYEric]

Natural? it looks like there are 2 types. Very nice.

 

[Hakone]

4 types

 

[NYEric]

Then they should not be natural, so close together.

 

[Hakone]

in Hakone Gardens are all possible

 

[NYEric]

Oh, I like that!

 

[Kevin]

Eric: if you plant with pure peat and water with rain water or other pure water, you'd be amazed what kinds of mossses pop up. The same happens to me with my carnivorous plants indoors. The spores are all there in the peat, just waiting for the right conditions.

 

[Kevin]

in pure peat moss

Then why do you call it 'white peat'???

 

[NYEric]

Hmmm, I should have peat moss here somewhere, I have some bags of live moss and I have R.O. water! Time to search and do an experiment.

 

[Kevin]

Make sure you use the pure peat, and not any that have added fertilizers and stuff. Use pure water too, unless your tap water is good.

 

[Hakone]

Fertilize with Osmocote

 

[Marc]

Then why do you call it 'white peat'???

White peat = German Weißtorf

I've read about this in a book by Irmin Vogler and after doing some reading on german sites I found the following information.

If you have a peat bog the peat in it will be layered, oldest at the bottom youngest peat at the top. What the Germans call Weißtorf is the youngest peat. The darker stuff below it is either Brauntorf ( Brown peat ) or Schwarztorf ( Black peat ) which is the oldest peat in the bog.

I've found this info while reading through this wiki:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torf

 

[Dido]

White peat is mostly the more acidic one.
Which the processes have not stopped and you can see the fibre.

its the growing region of the boog.

I use it for some acaule in my garden. Because the PH is around 3-4,5 ph.

 

[tocarmar]

Hmmm, I should have peat moss here somewhere, I have some bags of live moss and I have R.O. water! Time to search and do an experiment.

The mad scientist at it again!!! oke: