Re: CULT: fertilizer and crab grass preventer

From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)

>From: "Dennis Kramb" <dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net>
>
>My landlords were kind enough to have my back yard and flower beds treated
>by a local lawn care company today.  I called their office to find out what
>had been put down.  They said they applied a 19-3-5 fertilizer (pellet form
>applied with a spreader) that has a crab-grass pre-emergent chemical
>component to it.  They said that it could prevent some wild flowers and
>ornamental perennials from germinating.
>
>I'm worried what this might do to my SIGNA iris seeds and wild flower seeds.
> I'm also worried about the high nitrogen dose that my iris beds are going
>to get.  It's small yellow pellets, so I'm going to do my best to brush them
>out of the flower beds.
>
>The lawn care company said they will avoid the flower beds from now on, but
>you'd think they'd be smart enough to do that in the first place!  Oh this
>is just another frustration that I really don't need.
>
>Dennis Kramb (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, USDA Zone 6)
>Irises & Native Wildflowers URL:  http://home.fuse.net/dkramb/home.html
>
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Dear Dennis:  "You would think they would not put the stuff on the flower
beds". I have no faith at all in such people!  Many years ago when I was
coolecting iris species, my father warned me that a man was coming to fix
the drain. I went to his house personally and spole to him, telling him of
my collection of iris species. Next day when I came home from work, ALL my
iris plants were missing!! I found I aurea by reason of its long leaves.
They had been thrown back in the hole whne it was time to fill it in. All
the labels had been carefully laid on the back stoop!!. Lloyd Zurbrigg in
Durham NC.   I read with great interest about your arilbreds. Hope you have
a good year with them.



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