Re: hoping for spring soon

Ah, mint.  I think many of us have made this mistake early on. But 2 DOZEN
mint plants? ow!
My mistake was chocolate mint, but only 3 plants, and I'm still fighting
with it.  Except it looks like english ivy is giving it a run for its money.

Kitty



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:13 AM
Subject: [CHAT] hoping for spring soon


> We got a lot of good rain on and off all day yesterday...looking at
> maybe some mixed snow/rain later in the week...temps. got up to 56
> degrees here...downright balmy! My thoughts have really begun to turn to
> the garden bed I want to completely overhaul this year...worked like a
> fiend last fall to shape up all the rest of the gardens so I could have
> some laxity in ignoring them in order to concentrate on this one bed
> this year...one of the 2 largest of all the beds in my yard, I made a
> huge mistake with it a few years back...planted about a dozen each of
> spearmint and peppermint and now am overrun with the stuff. Great place
> for every pollinating insect in the county to visit but doesn't look so
> good anymore. The landscaping cloth we put down when we initially did
> this bed is making it very easy for this stuff to run all over the
> place, crowding everything else out and I want it GONE! Besides the
> spearmint, this bed is home to a beautiful cherry tree, a redbud tree,
> several peonies, quite a lot of guara, purple coneflower, blue flax,
> hosta 'guacamole', and a large collection of spring flowering bulbs such
> as snow crocus, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, etc. It also contains my
> bad patch of roses...twenty shrub rose bushes that are destined for the
> burn pile this year as I have tried and failed for four years now to get
> the black spot problem they are plagued with under control and I'm
> finally admitting defeat with this bunch...I have many other roses that
> I'm more interested in protecting from a spread of this infection. Went
> to see my doctor yesterday for a sore back (the bane of nurses
> everywhere, I think!) and told him he had about 2 weeks to fix whatever
> is wrong with my back because I have some serious gardening to get
> to...he laughed...I don't think he took me seriously...hmmmph! Anyway,
> now that I've got a digital camera...I'll be taking some before, during,
> and after pictures to let you all in on the progress! Any suggestions,
> comments, etc. would be greatly appreciated! Full sun, shade only under
> th
>
> e canopy of the small redbud (that's the home of the hosta and it seems
> to like it there), front yard facing south to the main street of town
> (no hardship to guess that in such a small town it really is Main
> Street), borders a public sidewalk, room to expand in 2 directions if I
> want towards the house.
>
>
>
> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>
> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> --Albert Einstein
>
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