Re: Lamium and pinks
- Subject: Re: Lamium and pinks
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:40:12 EST
In a message dated 4/2/02 6:10:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
llebpmac_bob@hotmail.com writes:
<< new drilled well in last fall. Before that it was a dug well, with just
enough water for household needs if we were careful. Two loads of laundry a
week, and think before you flush. I may actually be able to water during
the dry spells this year.
Killed my A. major too, which was annoying because it was an expensive named
cultivar. I carried water to it for a couple of weeks and it seemed to be
coming along all right so I stopped. So did it. >>
Bob,
Sympathy for the water conditions - however we have a drilled well and still
cannot water. You can have a garden without the water and we should have
more postings on this subject. Some towns in my area are on severe water
restrictions already - April and restrictions!
Watering here for any length of time results in a dry well which takes about
four to six hours to recover. We do not use the hose for the garden though I
did when I lived elsewhere - watered copiously all the time.
We have water barrels that collect water from a large metal barn roof. The
barrels are connected for a larger supply than one barrel. We also have more
barrels, all plastic 55 gal. barrels painted to match house, posted on every
downspout to serve containers and new plantings around the gardens. Hauling
water cans out of those barrels is exercise for me. I keep a lot of
containers and those barrels keep the containers alive.
Any further ideas as this season goes on would probably be welcome by those
of us on well water. We have made a huge garden sucessfully with no water
from a hose in the more than ten years on our old farm.
There are only a few things I have totally given up. Primula is one. I do
have a few in a rock garden near a barrel but large plantings are out. I no
longer plant any astilbe. Some strategies can be formed around the well
water situation. For example the lysimachia clethroides that is feared by
the guys with watered borders is a grand plant in the drylands of slopes
without water.
In the Northeast, I fear, water posting tips will be welcome this summer.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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