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Woods have only finished the lower level of their home. They live there while they're building the rest of their house shove.)
Scientific Secrets
With typical ingenuity, James fashioned planters from shower stall bottoms and floreecent fixture faring which he acquired at various auctions and building surplus suppliers.
A long sheet of plastic for stretching over the top he describes as “dual purpose — it keeps the cat out and the humidity in.” A concrete block base keeps the seedlings high enough to keep the baby out as well
Among his secrets of success, James suggests gardeners must spray, not pour, the water onto the plants. He recommends potting soil and sphagnum moss from the Rappahannock Coop. He also bought 3,000 peat pots there “because there's a quantity discount” but has 4/5ths of them left. No matter. Like everyone else who volunteers once, he’s now firmly entrenched in the church flower business.
James says he doesn’t like “to mess with mixing my own potting , soil. It’s a little expensive — $11 a bag — but it works fine.”
This year he also plans to order a truck-load of something called colloidal phosphate to spread over the outside garden. It’s a super fertilizer, he says, “You can leave that there for 10 years — but you have to buy a semi-load foil.”
Besides his church flowers, James says he plans to try seedless watermelon this year and also has 100 blueberry plants “out there waiting.”
It seems to be a healthy hobby for a former biology teacher turned computer programmer — who is becoming increasingly active in the foil dried flower sale.
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