Re: CULT:Nutrients
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk]CULT:Nutrients
- From: s*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:18:13 EST
In a message dated 3/16/2001 12:30:48 PM Central Standard Time,
lmmunro@hotmail.com writes:
<< Betty, can you identify anything different between your side yard and
back yard? >>
I've moved from that spot and didn't run soil tests while I was there. The
entire area had been used as pasture for at least four years before I started
growing irises. There were several things I know were different. The area
where things grew prettier (IMO) had been used heavily as a vegetable garden
for several years and then abandoned. It was also a little bit lower than
the hill where things were less beautiful--a chance that nutrients had
leached from the higher ground. And then, I used a lot of bone meal and
super phosphate. Maybe more in the one bed because I thought it had probably
been 'used up' in the earlier years before I got it.
But without a soil test it's had to say, conclusively or scientifically, what
made the difference. It's only speculation.
Soil I had brought in to form beds here does not appear to be very good, but
I doubt it grew irises before. Think I will be a little heavy handed with
the bone meal this week end and see if my seedling turns brown again.
Betty / Bowling Green KY USA Zone 6
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