Re: bermudagrass wars

Ceres: I must be blessed then...the soil in my yard is black, beautiful
loamy stuff...there is one tiny vein of clay that winds around through
my property but it is less than a few inches wide and so never causes a
problem. The only place I've ever had clay problems is one of my beds in
the front that I made a garden out of after a storm ripped a huge tree
out of the ground by the roots...left a fifteen foot wide and six foot
deep hole that I had to have topsoil trucked in to fill...unfortunately
it turned out to be extremely poor quality dirt with a good portion of
clay...I spent a ton of money on sand, vermiculite, and burr compost to
amend it that first year, covered it over with landscaping cloth and
planted it...have done no amending since and this year when I was
planting out there, I noticed the soil is much improved...much lighter
and blacker than it was and full of earthworms. Of course, I don't do a
thing to discourage my free soil aeration done via burrowing animals so
I think this actually helps.

Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Fri 08/29,  < Cersgarden@aol.com > wrote:
From:  [mailto: Cersgarden@aol.com]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:16:35 EDT
Subject: Re: [CHAT] bermudagrass  wars

In a message dated 8/29/03 10:27:28 AM, gardenqueen@gbronline.com
writes:<br><br><< Would love to see some of that good<br>Iowa soil
someday. Supposed to be fantastic stuff! >><br><br>Pam, for the most
part, Iowa soil is good soil for corn however we must amend <br>our soil
just as you do for a garden. We have heavy clay. When I first
<br>started gardening I did the db dig but I now do as Kitty does using
a tiller <br>however we have a larger one. I have never used the
additives you are applying <br>but instead use peat, sand & compost.
What is your ph?<br>
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