Glass Jar Garden

Stones and wood

Mountain stone as drawn in the simulator

Mountain stone

Brown angular stone etched with fine lines.

What the simulation uses

Holds water
1 % by volume
Water it keeps after draining; the rest runs down to the drainage.
Pore space
3 % by volume
Room for air and water between grains; low means roots suffocate when wet.
Weight
2550 g/L
How heavy a litre is.
pH
7 to 7.5 pH
How acid it keeps the soil.

Description

Brown angular stone etched with fine lines. Dense and nearly watertight, it leaves soil chemistry alone.

Also called landscape rock.

Estimated, where sources were thin: look authored for the app; physical values estimated.

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