Re: Maxi-Crop (seaweed)
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Maxi-Crop (seaweed)
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:47:45 -0400
In a message dated 96-08-05 21:33:51 EDT, you write:
>This is interesting, Clarence -- 1- how close is "near a cement sidewalk"??
> 2- what is in a bag of potting soil -- I will have to run out there tonight
>and take stuff out of their pots!!
>
>3- how long would it take to see the affect of nearby cement/ potting soil
> on Japanese?? would we see yellowed foliage, or failure to grow/thrive, or
>merely lack of bloom?? would the affect be immediate??
>
>does the limestone leech out of the cement of, say, a sidewalk?? so that
>watering which floods the area including the source of the limestone
> would allow the bad stuff to float over to the Japs?? Japs should not
>be planted in a cement pool, then???? (no, I don't have a cement pool...)
You know, Carolyn, I learned quite some years ago that about the time someone
says don't do something, someone does it and there is no problem. A good
example: for years Carol Warner grew BIG BLACK BUMBLEBEE (an arilred) right
next to a couple Japanese irises, and everything thrived...yet the
requirelments of arilbreds and Japanese irises are almost opposite of each
other.
You asked me many questions for which I don't know the answers. If an iris
has been at a site for a year and is happy, I'd leave it along. Why mess
with success? But I do know that many people have lost their Japanese irises
when planted near cement...and I also know that many people have lost
Japanese irises when planted in the commercial potting soil...myself
included. Sorry I can't do better than this. Clarence Mahan in VA
