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Re: Top Dress Moss

By Intheswamp
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-  Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:10 pm #447269
Long as you don't bet the farm on'em!!! :mrgreen: It sounds like you've got a plan!!! ;)
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-  Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:45 am #447569
With all the discussion about silica sand I went and bought some from Amazon. I don’t need huge amounts so bought 10 lbs. Size looks great to me. Wonder what you think.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C462DH21?ps ... ct_details
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Re: Top Dress Moss

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Panman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:35 pm Looks nice, but I would still vinegar test it despite what it says.
Vinegar test has no fizzing. Yay!
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andynorth wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:28 pm So that stuff is not too coarse? I have used in the past but thought it to be a bit on the coarse side.
I’m curious about this too. I’ve seen so many people talk about silica sand being too fine, I didn’t even realize it could be too coarse. I hope someone can elucidate.
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