RE: Back Home! now Cathy's book and ph questions

Just wait, about mid summer, you will understand what I am complaining
about!

If you could use rock garden plants it would work! But when they want a
forest here and a mini-veggie garden over there....that is when the trouble
starts!

Donna

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Cathy Carpenter
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:46 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Back Home! now Cathy's book and ph questions
> 
> Understand where you are coming from, but couldn't the planting area
> be treated like a rock garden? Those plants obviously have to deal
> with the same issues, n'est pas?
> 
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> 
> On Dec 26, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Donna wrote:
> 
> > And I will be your first customer! :)
> >
> > Actually, there are not any plants 'just' for garden railroads.
> > Also comes
> > into play is your zone, and everything else a gardener has to put
> > up with
> > while browsing books and magazines.
> >
> > Cathy you should spend the winter reading about bonsai plants...
> > especially
> > the pruning/training of same. Start with naturally small leaf
> > plants and
> > plan on pruning them to death to stay small.
> >
> > Another issue is all the mountains and rock formations they want to
> > add. Not
> > much room for roots at/just below the surface, so rock garden
> > plants are
> > also a choice as long as they allowed drainage issues into those
> > mountains.
> >
> > Another killer of the garden railroads is the stones they use. Darn
> > stuff
> > leaches out into the growing sections, so plan for it depending on
> > what
> > stones Gary uses. John is using lime stone bases for the crushed
> > ballasts.
> >
> > This winter I plan on learning more about the ph of soils and what
> > happens
> > when exposed to chemical changes from rocks over periods of time.
> > Can I
> > nurse a plant thru the first year of ungodly ph swings? How long
> > does this
> > nightmare last? Should plants that need that only be planted, then
> > 3 years
> > down the line they all die since they are now not getting all that
> > since the
> > rocks are no longer leaching it out? (HA! Probably no time, anyone
> > here want
> > to give me a crash course or at least answer my current questions?)
> >
> > Donna
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> >> Behalf Of Cathy Carpenter
> >> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 2:24 PM
> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Back Home!
> >>
> >> You may just have an idea there. One more thing for my 'to do' list!
> >>
> >> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>
> >> On Dec 26, 2005, at 10:06 AM, james singer wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sounds like a book waiting to be written, Cathy. And since it
> >>> appears that you're going to have to research the plants, make and
> >>> keep good notes.
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 25, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Cathy Carpenter wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> My one frustration was that there does not seem to be
> >>>> anything published that focuses on garden railroad plantings.
> >>>
> >>> Island Jim
> >>> Southwest Florida
> >>> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> >>> Hardiness Zone 10
> >>> Heat Zone 10
> >>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >>> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >>>
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