Re: what's everyone ordering?

>  I may sacrifice some of the perennials and spray with Round-up.
> I will dig out what I can first.  It's also got lots of self-seeders,
> runners and some poison ivy growing there, but it's got good bones.

Chris,
When I moved here in 1985or 6, I wasn't a gardener yet.  Behind the small,
rotting, falling-down shed was a plot of weeds 5 feet high.  We just sort of
steered clear of it.  We guessed it must have been an abandoned vegetable
garden.

A few years went by and the shed got torn down.  I started thinking that I
might like to grow plants and decided first-things-first.  Get rid of the
mess.  Whether it was available back then, I don't know, but we hadn't heard
of round-up.  So it was mostly hand-pulling.  My husband got an old tiller
to try to turn what was left of it, but the tiller itself, wouldn't turn!
So he went a fair amount further on than he'd planned. Anyway, even after
much neglect and filled with eye-high Canada Thistle and Bindweed and who
knows what else, this little plot turned out to have some nice soil.  That
summer I solarized it (I was reading everything I could lay my hands on!)
and it became my holding bed the next year.  Over the succeeding years I
tackled various portions of the yard and found that a holding bed was very
handy for all those plants I didn't yet have a prepared place for.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Chris@widom-assoc.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 8:30 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT]what's everyone ordering?


> Donna,
>
> I tour the nurseries, find something I just have to have, and then
> figure out after it is home where I am going to plant it....
>
> Donna, I bet most of us would have to admit to the above! I do a lot of
> reading, making up index cards of notes as I go.  Then my notes, A to Z,
> and I go to favorite plant sales and nurseries.  I always buy more
> plants than I have room for.
>
> This year I'm planning on renovating my mom's abandoned flower garden
> (she died a few years back and we bought the house from my dad when he
> moved to a retirement community). I've already got it full (in my mind)
> of things I need room for!  I worked on a different garden of hers last
> year.  The abandoned garden will be much more work as it is full of
> weeds.   I may sacrifice some of the perennials and spray with Round-up.
> I will dig out what I can first.  It's also got lots of self-seeders,
> runners and some poison ivy growing there, but it's got good bones.
> It's surrounded by a low stone wall and has a stone bench and slate
> walkway within the bed.
>
> So far I've only ordered a few daylilies.
>
> Chris
> Long Island, NY
> Zone 7
>
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