Re: Spurias for Zones 4-5
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- Subject: Re: Spurias for Zones 4-5
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:37:04 -0700 (MST)
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, ECPep wrote:
> In a message dated 98-01-12 11:49:05 EST, you write:
>
> << Certainly here in Zone 5, they grow like weeds. It is my understanding that
> someone in Manitoba grows and sells them. That would be Zone 3 I expect.
>
> You should have no trouble in Michigan.
>
> John Montgomery >>
>
> John,
>
> What in interesting subject. Zone 3? Dorothy Fingerhood where are you?
>
> I have made a few stabs at spurias and all lie under burial crosses.
>
> Besides the drainage thing what else should we be doing?
>
> Claire Peplowski
> East Nassau, NY
> Zone 4 - Berkshire area (admittedly high and cold)
>
In my climate at least, I have found that spurias don't like pine
straw or pine bark as mulch. They prefer none or hardwood mulch. Also,
in our acid soil, they respond to a side dressing of lime in the spring.
I killed a few here or they sulked until I did the above.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
