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Message: [QUOTE="Oliver Buckle, post: 237098, member: 12649"] My approach to filling containers depends on what I have about me to put in them, and what I intend to plant. When I re-potted my angel's trumpets I know they are addicted to plenty of moisture, and that the friend who gave me them said "Don't worry about overfeeding them, you can't". I made up a mix that was very high in vegetable material, sieved but only partly composted, and manure with terracotta and ash and just a bit of top soil. It will rot down quite a bit and allow me to top dress to add nutrients for a few years. I am sure you can imagine that would not do for potatoes. Tomatoes might have two parts each compost, manure and topsoil. Lavender I can get away with spent soil from old pots with minimal additions. [/QUOTE]