Re: Saving young plants in the garden

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• Subject: Re: Saving young plants in the garden
• From: T* a* M* R*
• Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:11:49 +1200

L Schmiege wrote:
> 
> Saving the young plants.
> 
> Several years ago I kept losing beans as they came up.  I covered the
> rows with dried weeds that had been cut around the edges of the
> garden.  I piled the dry stuff loosely about 1 foot high and wide on
> top of the rows and waited until the beans grew up into the dried
> stuff before removing it.  That method worked wonderfully.  The ground
> remained damp and shaded and the birds did not try  sticking their
> heads into the pickie dry stuff.  I have used this method since
> then. The only problem I encountered is that I don't always have the
> proper dry, weeds available.
> 
 Lorraine 
Having had some of this trouble myself from time to time with beans this
sounds most interesting and I will try it this coming summer. I prresume
there is nothing magic about dried _weeds_ and I could substitute ditto
grassclippings?

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ.     Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm

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