i used mud from the banks of a creek will it work

[stinkyattic]

it may, river beds, and creeks have settlements that rest on the bottom. It just depends on where you got it, and how much water runs through over a given time.

Yeah... all the water running through it on a river bottom leaches all the good shit right out and you're left with dense, mucky, oxygen-poor DIRT.

Better off getting REAL potting soil and getting your WATER from the creek if you want to make use of it.