Re: O.T. Weeds
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- Subject: Re: O.T. Weeds
- From: <J*@aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:46:04 EDT
From: <JErnst209@aol.com>
For the first time I have something to contribute rather than a question to
ask...
This evening, my son and I (he's 3 ) went out to plant some unnamed Iris back
in the iris bed that I put in last summer (28' x 15'). This bed is almost 2
acres from the house, and not near a water source (well it is if I put
together three hoses). Once an Iris is planted there it is on it's own. The
soil is fairly nice.
Tonight, when I walked up to the bed, I almost stopped still in my tracks as I
came upon it. There was a visible line down the center of the bed. The front
half of the bed was leaf spotted, with pale green foliage and the back half of
the bed was disease free and with dark green upright leaves.
What was this? As I walked closer, the answer seemed obvious. The back
section of the bed which had received a thorough weeding about a month and a
half before, was beautiful and the front section, where I did no weeding at
all, was definitely not. So, as I'm walking back up to the house to get the
shovel (to weed the front section, of course!) I'm thinking to myself, 'Could
it be that the weeds had really pulled that much nutrition out of the soil? '
And also, why the leaf spot? I don't know the question, but I now know the
answer. Weed free is better.
Karen Ernst
Highland, MI
AIS
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