Re: I feel good
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  • Subject: Re: I feel good
  • From: B* <b*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:30:01 +0000 (UTC)
Not only do you do that but you also expose lots of buried weed seed to
light which makes weeding much more difficult. The last class I attended
recommended that you cut off the plants at the point where no growth can
occur and allow the remaining with roots become part of the soil. I use
newspaper, straw and have even used cardboard. It is great to keep down
winter opportunist weed when you have large pieces of it. By spring it
has disintegrated.


ETN Zone 7 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tricia" <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 3:15:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] I feel good 

Cyndi, 
I am not big on rototilling because of a talk I heard once by a soil 
conservationist. He talked about how if you rototill or plow to the same 
depth all the time you make a hard pan that the moisture and roots can not 
penetrate. I am a big mulcher with newspapers and straw or grass clippings 
is my favorite. The worms come and work the soil for you. 
Just my 2 cents! 
Tricia 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI" 
<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net> 
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:00 AM 
Subject: RE: [CHAT] I feel good 


> The friend I go hiking with was in a car accident Saturday after she hit 
> some black ice on a canyon road. Fractured a vertebrae, not good. So my 
> weekend wasn't as happy as it could have been, but I did enjoy grubbing 
> in the dirt both days. It was a great weekend weatherwise. No wind plus 
> sunshine, t-shirt weather! I worked outside clearing what was left of 
> old tomato and basil plants in the vegetable garden and cutting back 
> rabbitbrush in the dry garden. Husband dug up some old non-productive 
> grapevines, they were some kind of wine grape, and we bought new 
> Thompson Seedless and Flame to replace them. I looked for bare-root 
> fruit trees but the local selection was pathetic. We've been checking 
> since New Year's but I guess the home centers just don't get enough 
> demand for them. I did buy a Tilton apricot and I'll call the only real 
> nursery in town today to see if they have anything. Otherwise I'll have 
> to mail-order a pomegranate, a couple peach trees, and maybe a pear. 
> I pruned my dwarf nectarine and some rosebushes too, but being as I was 
> too lazy to go get my gloves I am all scabbed up, you'd think I'd learn. 
> 
> While digging in the veg garden I was noticing the soil. I have been 
> dumping spoiled hay and sheep manure in there for years. We received 
> about 4" of rain over the last few days. I dug down about 18" and the 
> top few inches, all mulch, is sopping wet. The rest of the soil is dry. 
> Not summer dry but not real moist either. In the "unimproved" areas like 
> where I planted the fruit tree, the water penetrated way down, farther 
> than I could dig. Hmmm, I'm thinking more rototilling is in my future. 
> 
> Cyndi 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf Of Kitty 
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 12:59 PM 
> To: gardenchat@hort.net 
> Subject: [CHAT] I feel good 
> 
> Fifty two lovely degrees today and the sun even came out for a few 
> minutes. 
> I washed the car, checked on some plants, generally puttered around 
> outside 
> in just a sweatshirt. Feels good to get outside. 
> High tomorrow will be 33 
> 
> Kitty 
> neIN, Zone 5 
> 
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