Re: Mulch vs reseed?
- Subject: Re: Mulch vs reseed?
- From: N* S*
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:06:04 -0700
Moira, thanks for the input. this is about what I had envisioned but
it is helpful to hear it from someone else. I suspect that this kind
of plan will be best, I'll try it in a few months and let you know
how it works next year! To be honest, I am so inundated with
california poppies that maybe a few fewer plants would be okay.
I'e been clearning them out from the driplines of all my other
plnats. I never thought I would start to think of them as weeds!
I'll try to take a photo of the yard and post it for the goup. Where
are we posting things?
>Nan Sterman wrote:
>>
>> As I look at my "citrus hill" covered in riotous bloom of sweet pea,
>> hybrid poppies and california poppies, I realize I am about to face a
>> long time dilemma and need your advice.
>>
>> When/how do you mulch a flower bed that you want to reseed itself?
>>
>> If I put on three inches of mulch after the seeds have fallen, they
>> won't resprout.
>> If I mulch now, I'll bury the plants
>> Do I give up mulching alltogether?
>>
>> What do you advise?
>
>Nan
>This is surely quite a curly one, but it won't do your ground any good
>to get no fresh organic matter at all, will it?
>
>Would it perhaps be possible to mulch just when your plants are going
>over but before they actually drop their seeds? If you can leave at
>least the upper(seed bearing) parts of the plants exposed, this would
>allow the seeds to fall into the upper layers of the mulch and I am sure
>they would then manage very nicely.
>
>Moira
>--
>Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
>Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
