Re: Advice/blackberry lily
I have planted in a raised bed of straight compost (well rotted & aged horse
manure) it was wonderful & I had no trouble, except the compost was a bit
light weight, & in a raised bed it almost held too much water. Large,
heavy-topped plants will have trouble standing up straight, untill they
develop a strong root base that will anchor it inthe soft soil (compost).
As far as your blackberry lilies, I have had no direct experience with
those, but your symptoms could also be cutworms, damage acquired to the lower
stem when planting (no offense to your planting technique, but accidents do
happen to all of us) or a chemical burn to that area. Are any of your
amendments added at the soil line of mixed thoroughly throughout the entire
bed. Also, if you watered the bed heavily, (depending on the amounts added)
manure (if not really aged), superphosphate & lime all react strongly with
water. If you had heavily watered, you may have affected, almost like a
chemical burn, any susceptible plants. Your lilies may fall under this
category. You might also have unknowingly changed the ph of the soil, so I
would check that, too.
TerryLynn
Lynn Lamb wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am new to this list and new to perennial gardening and have lots to
> learn. I have just had two blackberry lilies (belamcanda) rot at the base
> and die only days after planting. The obvious answer is that the bed is
> too wet, but all the other plants are doing well, as far as I can tell. I
> am worried about putting other bulbs in there now. The bed is somewhat
> raised and we prepared it with pine bark mulch, manure, bonemeal,
> superphosphate, and lime tilled in and then put mulch on top.
> Also, have any of you planted in a raised bed made up just of compost?
> I saw an article in *Fine Gardening* that someone did that.
>
> Thanks,
> Lynn Lamb
> Zone7/8, North Carolina
> "There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some
> stroke of imagination."
> --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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