Re: CULT: Culture and heaving
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Culture and heaving
- From: "* b* c* <b*@atlantic.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 17:01:59 -0700 (MST)
>
> I've used both fine sand and coarse sand as anti-cricket mulches. Light
> sand, such as is sold for play sand, holds water once went and blocks the
> passage of water when dry. Coarse sand, such as the No. 3 medium grade
> builder's sand, lets water drain through and dries quickly.
>
> Coarse sand good, fine sand bad.
>
> celia
Celia,
I mixed coarse sand into some of the Iris beds in when I lived in
Kentucky. Those beds had far less heaving than the beds without the sand.
I think there is certainly something too this, although there is no way to
totally prevent heaving in Kentucky.
Two weeks without the sun, did they move Little Rock a couple of
states to the northeast?
Mark A. Cook
billc@atlantic.net
Dunnellon, FL.
