RE: CULT: Bone Meal & Dogs

Maybe that's it--maybe my friend left too much bone meal on the surface--she 
did say she used a lot, and she tilled the whole bed.  I thought it was 
overkill, anyway, and figured the iris were probably happier in the untreated 
beds.

Barb, in Santa Fe, only two or three days behind on the e-mail now, and 
closing fast.

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From: 	iris-l@rt66.com on behalf of Marte Halleck
Sent: 	Wednesday, June 11, 1997 12:41 AM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	Re: CULT: Bone Meal & Dogs

Dana Brown wrote:

>I have NEVER had a single rz dug up by a dog. Maybe I have just been 
>lucky or maybe because I only use 1 T buried 2" under each rz they can 
>not sniff it out.  Either way bone meal has not created a problem here.

My experience has been the same, Dana. I have many neighbor dogs 
visiting & until recently, had my own gardening-companion dog. I use 
bone meal when I plant just about all bulbs/rhizomes/corms/tubers & no 
furry friend, tame or otherwise, has ever dug 'em up from aboveground to 
get at bone meal. (We won't talk about pocket gophers attacking from 
underground...)

Thing is, maybe it's because we put bone meal in the planting hole 
rather than on top of the dirt? Or it may be that our normally dry 
climates in Lubbock, TX & on the east slope of the Rockies keeps the 
bone meal bone dry (sorry -- couldn't resist)? Anyway, no problem.

Marte in the mtns	Zone 4		Evergreen, Colorado, where we 
had 2 days of flash-flooding & 2 day more days of rain besides BUT today 
the sun was out!
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