CULT:OT: newspaper layers
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- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 03:05:23 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Margaret Boehm <mmboehm@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Years ago Ralph Snodsmith, former director of the Queens
> (NY) Botanical
> Garden and teacher at NYBG, who hosts a nation-wide call
> in gardening
> radio show, said that 6 sheets of newspaper were needed
> to prevent light
> from reaching seeds and germinating them. Since then
> I've used
> newspaper, covered with an inch layer of pine mulch,
> around shrubs and
> in the perennial beds.
V. sez:
A friend of mine buries a thick layer of newspaper
underground around her daylilies. Lasts a couple years, and
helps keep down weeds. She doesn't use this method around
her irises, but it may be worth trying, especially with the
beardless.
=====
Vince Lewonski
vincelewonski@yahoo.com
Secane, Pennsylvania, USA Zone 6b
"I want to be Bob Dylan; Mr. Jones wishes he were someone just a little more funky..."
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