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From: grass@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Gravel for Drainage
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 10:25:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 10:25:00 1986
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One of my garden books (I forget which one) suggests that plastic packing
peanuts (The plastic foam nuggets they put in packages of shipped
breakables) are good for providing drainage. They don't decompose, they don't
absorb water...  I've been using them, and they seem to do the job.
The only complaint I have is that they are light and don't bottom weight
the pot.

I think anything you can find that will pack losely, not decompose much
and not hold water might work well in place of potting shards  (I never
have enough old pots).
			
	- Judy Grass,  University of Illinois - Urbana
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