Re: Planting...
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: Planting...
- From: "* C* <j*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:40:17 PDT
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
Rusty wrote: >I got waaaaaaay too many irises this year, and ran
>out of room for them fairly early in the year (June). So my parents
>showed me where I could dig a new garden. After 3 days of not being
>able to get the shovel blade more than 2 inches into the ground, I
>pretty much gave up and started digging somewhere else.
>Rusty ...who has never once, at an explosion, seen "smithereens"
anywhere.
Now that you have this years irises safely planted, you should go back
to that first new bed and start picking away at it for next years
planting. If you roughly chip the surface with a pick then pile the area
up with compost, manure, etc. it should be much more workable next year,
and you sound as if you will need the extra space.
Smithereens, BTW, are extremely fine, and move extremely fast,
explaining why they are seldom seen, and are even difficult to capture
with a high speed camera. :-)
Cheers, Jan Clark
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