RE: odds and ends

People at work think I'm crazy when I start talking about lasagna gardening
and using newspapers to plant into, but it really does make the best beds!

Blessings,

Bonnie

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Andrea H
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:40 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] odds and ends

I'm with Jim, but I would still put down wet newspapers around the plants
after they are in and mulch them well. This seems to be the best way to keep
weeds from reoccurring. I've got a bed that's so loose now from all the
lasagna gardening that I can just yank any stray weeds right out.

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC
Zone 8b

----- Original Message -----
From: "Island Jim" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 5:32 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] odds and ends


> chris, we usually make two roundup applications, one week apart, before we
> do anything with the bed. we mix the roundup strictly to label directions,
> which tends to be a bit on the weak side. but you want roundup a bit on
the
> weak side because you don't want to kill the leaves. you want the grass
and
> weeds to absorb the stuff and kill the roots. two strict label
applications
> at week apart will do that.
>
> depending on what you are dispatching with roundup, you may want to
> incorporate a pre-emergent in the second application. might as well kill
> off the grass and weed seeds, too.
>
>
> At 02:04 PM 4/23/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi everybody!
> >
> >I've been outside trying to finish the fall and winter clean up!  It's
> >only about 55 degrees and the wind is blowing!  I'm taking a break to
> >warm up a bit before venturing out again. I carefully sprayed Roundup on
> >a small area where I want to plant daylilies.  It's all grass right now.
> >The directions say that it works best at 60 degrees or more, but I'm
> >desperate!  I hope to own a Honda mini tiller by tomorrow and then I'll
> >till that area.  Does anybody know if you have to kill the grass first?
> >I thought that if I till, plant and then mulch well, I might not have to
> >first do the Roundup thing.  What do you all say?
> >
> >Just purchased Scrophularia auriculata 'Variegata", figwort, at Home
> >Depot.  The tag says: large evergreen crinkled foliage splashed with
> >cream.  Tiny wine-red flowers July -August. 2' sun/ part shade, zone 5.
> >Do any of you grow it?
> >
> >http://www.joycreek.com/231-001.htm
> >
> >   Chris
> >Long Island, NY
> >Zone 7
> >
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