Re: drought
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: drought
- From: m* l*
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:39:33 -0600
At 07:28 AM 8/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Just have to get in on this thread. One of the few (very few!)
>advantages of (1) having a small garden and (2) living in Chicago
>with that big lake and all that water is that we can usually get
>through a drought period with little damage, unless accompanied by
>severe heat. So far, most plants look pretty good, considering --
>except the astilbes, which I think have been underfed as well as
>suffering from dryness. Also, I think the extra spring rains, where
>I did lose stuff in pots due to rot, helped raise the water table and
>is getting some deeprooted stuff through this. But it's getting
>serious -- all of the predicted rainstorms have split and gone north
>or south of us (some blame Lake Michigan for creating a 'rain barrier'
>that splits the storm fronts) and expected downpours have been either
>nothing or less than 1/4 inch. And I'm always puzzled by the reaction
>of plants to real rain vs. the same amount of city water from
>sprinklers.
>There's no question that rain water makes everything look and act better
>-- any ideas from experts out there about this? Obviously, all water is
>not created equal!
>
>Anne - Chicago
>
I've been told the reason rain is superior to hosewater is that it pulls
nitrogen out of the air as it falls. Is that true? Margaret L
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