RE: Cheryl and forks
- Subject: RE: Cheryl and forks
- From: "Donna" j*@prairieinet.net
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:51:23 -0600
I never considered rocks when I posted my reply. Here it is just that
wonderful clay... and at times it is as hard as a rock.
Interesting, here there are no rocks to speak of, so for some of my
hardscapes, I have to purchase them...
Donna
Zone 5, IL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of ECPep@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:13 PM
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Subject: Cheryl and forks
>
> In a message dated 12/3/02 8:53:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> cherylisaak@adelphia.net writes:
>
>
> > The one tool that I regularly destroy is the gardening fork; the
> > native crop of rocks bend and twist the tines. I own two right now,
> > both are bent and twisted. I have been tempted several times to buy
> > a high end one, but fear for its life if I do. And yes the soil is
> > well amended, but between the contractor burying rocks and the
> > natural uplift of glacial till........you get the picture!
>
>
> Cheryl,
>
> I, too, have no forks that are not both coming and going from rocks.
I
> don't
> buy them anymore. One develops a rock strategy and that is that. Or,
you
> could move <BG>.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4 (where we now consider all rocks works of art)
>
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