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Re: New garden

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At 06:39 PM 11/27/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>Thanks guys. You have really convinced me to skip the rototilling (and the
>rental and the schlepping of it and all) and plop the beds down. At this
>point, unless you talk me out of it, I am proposing to my husband to cut
>the apple tree stump as close as possible to the ground, drill some holes
>in it, and put the compost/topsoil mixture right over it. Saves a bunch of
>money that I would have spent hiring somebody to dig it out.
>
>I'll put newspaper or moving boxes on the bottom and I'm convinced that it
>will take care of my grass/weeds. The ivy is still a little of a puzzle
>though. My husband has ripped out about half of the area so we have some
>bare dirt now. But it took him all morning to do a 10 foot square area.
>Those ivy vines are really tough. So now he is thinking that if he kills it
>all with Roundup first, that he'll have an easier time ripping it out. I'm
>not convinced that it would be easier ripping it out if it were dead than
>if it were alive. Further, I haven't done my research on Roundup and don't
>know if it will make my two-year-old grow a third arm out of his forehead.
>But, I want the ivy gone, and not just from underneath my new raised beds.
>So dead is good.
>
>Katherine Wendt
>DataWiz Solutions
>toll-free 1-877-DATAWIZ (328-2949)
>thefolks@datawizsolutions.com
>
If you leave the stump two or three feet high, you can use it as a base for
a birdbath or a sundial or a bird feeder, etc. 

Does Roundup kill ivy? Better read the label. That's kind of a woody plant,
so Brush-B-Gone might work better (but read that label, too).  Margaret L


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