Re: SPEC: Spurias in Idaho, Virginia and NY
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- Subject: Re: SPEC: Spurias in Idaho, Virginia and NY
- From: D* L* <g*@rogerswave.ca>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:44:11 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ian E. & Shirley Efford wrote:
> Finally, Claire, I do not do anything to adapt my soil. Most of it is
> light soil mixed with mushroom manure (which is rotted horse dung that
> has passed through a mushroom farm). The most that I would do if my
> soil was quite acid would be to mix it with some sand and make raised
> beds so that it drained well.
> Ian, in Ottawa
Claire, If you want to raise the pH you could put on lime which
will provide Calcium that the spurias also do better with.
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> <- private email address
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html
