Re: Re: CULT: Epsom salts (was Borax)
- Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: Epsom salts (was Borax)
- From: crook z*@yahoo.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:05:33 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Charlotte:
I move the plant, it doesn`t take much of a move, a
foot will do. When filling the hole back in, I spread
spruce and pine needles through out it as I fill, they
seem to restore the acidic levels in our soil.
Darm
--- Charlotte Holte <cholte@wi.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Darm,
>
> You say 'correct the problem' in the fall. Just
> what do you do in the fall?
>
> Char
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "crook" <zone1_5@yahoo.com>
> To: <iris@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 12:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: Epsom salts (was
> Borax)
>
>
> > Hi Ellen:
> > Our soil is naturally acidic here 6.5 ph. But
> once
> > the soil is broke and used for a while the acidic
> base
> > tends to leach out with rain and watering.I guess
> the
> > acidity comes from the spruce and pine forests
> here.
> > With the above in mind I do it only when the
> plant
> > appears to need the treatment, not when planting.
> > After that plants season is done I then rectify
> the
> > problem by replanting. Out of some four hundred
> plus
> > lilies I usually end up treating three or four a
> year,
> > then correct the problem in the fall.
> >
> > Hope this answers your question.
> > Darm
> > zone 1 maybe 1.5
> > Hay River NWT
> > Canada
> > --- Ellen Gallagher <ellengalla@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > --- crook <zone1_5@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >>> ....Epsom salt is an excellent nutrient
> releaser
> > > and adds
> > > acidity to the soil. It somehow makes the
> nutrients
> > > that are
> > > locked in the soil more accessible (snip). I
> find it
> > > better then
> > > sulfur. <<<
> > >
> > > This is valuable info especially for those of us
> who
> > > grow
> > > apogons = beardless. {In AIS Region One, apogon
> is
> > > the term of
> > > choice with yearly apogon sales, etc.
> > >
> > > >>> I used a couple table spoons full, sprinkled
> > > around the
> > > plant, scratched in then watered. If a plant is
> > > starting to look
> > > a little pale it picks it right up. <<<
> > >
> > > Darm, do you do that when planting and also when
> it
> > > looks like
> > > it needs it?
> > >
> > > Ellen (low of 36 F = 2 C this morning)
> > > ===
> > > Ellen Gallagher / ellengalla@yahoo.com / USDA
> Zone
> > > 3a in New
> > > HampshireUs Northern White Mountains
> > >
> > > "In 1943, Warren P. Austin of Vermont was the
> first
> > > U.S.
> > > Ambassador to the United Nations." (from Wicked
> Cool
> > > Stuff about
> > > Vermont)
> > >
> > >
> >
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