growing with sheeps wool..?

was just thinking about the early days of my growing and i used to use sheeps wool in the bottom of the hole i was going to plant in.
wool is naturally hydrophobic but is capable of holding up to 30% of its mass
in water.
so it used to be good for those times i could not get to the patch.

so has any one else tried this.?

sounds like a nice farmers solution to reducing how often u have to water your girls
nice idea but im guessing your the first one around here to use sheeps wool, the most efficient and popular way would have to be water crystals which absorb water and slowly release it to the plant,

very nice idea mate and if it works for you and dosent cost you a cent all the better!

cheers

yeah it worked well,
havn't used that method for a while grow close to home now so water is not a problem.

i have tried water crystels before,the wool seemed to work better plus if you use the pieces (they have dags on them) it acts as a fertilizer as well.

interesting.. how did you apply it again, you said at the bottom of the hole? so the roots grow through it?

yeah getting it to the plot was the tough bit.

i soaked the wool in a twenty litre bucket(i put the wool in loosly packed and filled with water)it will probably sink a bit so put more wool in till you have the bucket 3/4 full of soaking wet wool(carrying that to the patch is hard yakka)

then i would dig the patch(about 2 foot 6 inches deep) put in my wool and dig in a bit of soil.place a fish or two on top of that then put the rest of the soil back in the hole.and give a damn good watering

come back a month later plant girls,give a damn good watering

then i found even during the heat of our summer i only had to give them a damn good watering once a week and not at all if we got a bit of summer rain