Re: A few things
The newspaper doesn't bother me much and I'm sure if it warms up this season
one more season should do it. This area is half day shade, so I'm sure that
added to the delay.
Kitty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 12:48 AM
Subject: [CHAT] A few things
> An amalgam of replies to previous messages:
>
> Jesse: Way to go, girl! I am so proud of how brave you are to start this
new venture...you are so awesome!
>
> Re: the cat: WooHoo! We found him a new, permanent home...with my
> co-girl scout leader so we will be able to visit him every other
> Thursday! Yippee!
>
>
> re: lasagna gardening--Kitty: I would imagine the length of time it
> takes for newspaper to break down depends a great deal on two
> things...moisture and heat. Either one alone would probably not be
> sufficient to speedily accomplish this, so your cool, wet year last year
> probably hindered the process a bit. I don't do lasagna gardening, but I
> do compost a lot and my cold wet piles decompose much, much more slowly
> than the ones that I tend to more aggressively so that they maintain
> their heat. We recycle a lot of our newspapers in the compost heaps, so
> I'm just giving you my observations from that basis.
>
>
>
> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>
> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> --Albert Einstein
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