Re: hot beds
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: hot beds
- From: "* S* <m*@iol.ie>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:57:31 +0100
Hi,
Have lost the run of this thread, but someone wrote:
"I was thinking of using a hot mulch in my cold frames beneath
the plants as a way to winter over tender perennials. Every other nursery
that
I asked told me that the Carbon in the "hot" mulch would find it's
nitrogen,
going right through the plastic of the pots, and strip it from both the
plants and
their potting mix. So, I really wouldn't recommend it."
Can't see why this wouldn't work. Victorian (C19th English) gardeners
used a hot bed method to raise early vegetables, building up a four foot
deep bed of horse manure, adding a layer of soil, and finally topping off
with guess what, ......... a cold frame. (The pile was enclosed by a frame
with removable plank sides to allow for subsidence as the manure broke
down.)
Mark Speakman
Annaghdown, Ireland
"Had I the heavens embroidered threads
Enwrought with gold and silver light"
markspkn@iol.ie
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