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just a suggestion 

 

rocks are one way to go about top dressing & retaining moisture 

the thing with rocks is they'er heavy & in a pot , can compact a bit as there hit with water 

& the soil softens , but doesn't really do anything else than water retention , which is good 

 

if you use green matter & straw you get the retaining moisture bit plus you feed the 

benne's in the soil which in turn feeds your plant , which mean you can work that

 

your in veg the plants a little light green top dress with lucerne = alfalfa = N

your about to go into flower , the plant has a need for calcium at that point ,

you top dress with silver beet leaves , 

 

a green brown mulch layer can also work like a filter for water passing though it

 

it also lets the plants do what they've evolved to do over thousands of years & send

feeder roots to the mulch layer where there's lots of life & food 

 

feed the soil not the plant 

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if you use green matter & straw you get the retaining moisture bit plus you feed the 

benne's in the soil which in turn feeds your plant , which mean you can work that

 

your in veg the plants a little light green top dress with lucerne = alfalfa = N

your about to go into flower , the plant has a need for calcium at that point ,

you top dress with silver beet leaves , 

 

a green brown mulch layer can also work like a filter for water passing though it

 

it also lets the plants do what they've evolved to do over thousands of years & send

feeder roots to the mulch layer where there's lots of life & food 

 

feed the soil not the plant 

 

agree, I have a lot of parsley and I use this, :)

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another handy tip 

fungus gnats larva eat fungus , just so happens myko fungi live on roots

if your in coco & no other fungal food source that'll eat roots otherwise

with plenty of organic mater there should be plenty of gnat food other

than ya roots , plus with a living soil all the bugs keep each other in check

so the gnats are in your soil but not to any great numbers if the rest of the life is kicking  

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