HYB: CULT: new garden
- Subject: HYB: CULT: new garden
- From: L* M*
- Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 17:59:05 -0400
Ok, folks, I am doing something drastic. Southern Pine Beetles have
wiped out the 50 yr old Shortleaf and Virginia Pine stand on the ridge
behind my house. The whole ridge was a corn field back in the early
1950s until a major storm event washed most of the side of the ridge
down into the area where I now have my garden. I am having a farm road
bulldozed into the side of the ridge to give me tractor access to the
top of the ridge, where I plan to push some of the fallen dead pines out
of the way and have a small <ridge top, east facing, clay loam> (!!!!!)
garden plot.
So... stay tuned. Now I will probably complain about deer eating my
irises and rot from poor drainage instead of freeze damage. <g> But
just maybe I will be able to bloom some earlier cultivars without them
getting frozen.
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
iris-talk/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
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