Re: Perennial garden reonovation?
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Perennial garden reonovation?
- From: M* R* W*
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:52:40 -0500
Sharon--
1. I read somewhere that using UNCOMPOSTED chopped leaves can retard
growth-- some kind of chemical compound in them (does the word phenols
sound familiar to anyone? I wish I could lay my hands on that article!)
It should get better when the leaves finish breaking down. I have done
this myself and had the same problems as you until I found this out.
2. I always do my beds in fall, since I like to give the plants a head
start on spring, and I never have time in spring anyway. I think it would
depend on your weather conditions-- if you have short falls and the
ground freezes up right away, spring would probably be best; here even
though we have cold winters the ground rarely freezes solid before mid to
late December. I usually do renovations or dividing the first two weeks
of October and have very good luck. You may have to start a lot sooner,
don't know about Massachusetts.
Mary
SW MO zone 6
> he added
> some chopped up leaves nothing else was done to improve the soil. I
> promptly planted it with perennials and some annuals but nothing did
> very well the first season. This year I've been putting things in
> rather
> haphazardly just to fill up space and again nothing is doing very
> well
> (except the weeds, of course!).
> My specific question - should I
> really
> wait, will pulling out the plants and replanting them before the
> winter
> disturb them too much?
> Sharon
> Medford, MA
> Zone 5/6
>
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