Re: To take off or not to take off!
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: To take off or not to take off!
- From: D*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 23:26:54 -0400
In a message dated 96-09-13 21:44:45 EDT, you write:
<< I bought
several bales of straw today to put over the bed just before the snow flys
>>
Kim, this sentence set off alarm bells for me. If there is any possibility
that rodents--moles, voles, whatever--may move in, it might be best to wait
until the ground is frozen hard before putting down the straw. I made a
super cozy gigantic "nest" on my irises with deep pine boughs one year, and
the blankety-blank creatures moved in under the snow and wrecked havoc. They
ate every speck of green and were deep into the old mother rhizomes by
spring!
Someone then advised me to wait until the ground froze before mulching; I
have, and have had no more mouse house-keeping in the irises.
About taking off or not--I try to remove the old dead leaves and trim off
leaf spot right up til the snow buries it all--IF I can keep up with it.
Whatever is still green and gets buried--gets buried!
Dorothy Fingerhood
DFingerhoo@aol.com
(Newfield, NY) Where I'd just as soon not think about snow flying for a
little while yet...
