Re: Shade garden help
- Subject: Re: Shade garden help
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:33:57 -0500
:-) I like "pig ax", Paul. Well, I've used that, too, but generally
not on roots tho' I did get a lovely new hand mattock for Christmas
and that will be put to use in the root department:-)
I know just what you mean - maples have extremely questing roots that
can smell good soil from about 50 miles and head right to it. When I
replace my mix around that one maple, it has those same fine roots
filling it within one growing season.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Meum71@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 1/5/2003 3:44:34 AM Central Standard Time,
mtalt@hort.net
> writes:
>
> > . When you get a digging fork, get a good one
>
> How about a pick ax (as a child called them "Pig ax," guess I heard
the word
> wrong!)
>
> I have a hard maple in the front yard and that poor tree has
suffered many
> traumas, but that's anther story, every year or two I get 15 yards
of
> good-black humus rich "dirt" delivered on the other side of the
driveway.
> About 45-50 feet away from the maple tree, and that maple likes to
move its
> root system into my dirt pile. I mean a lot of small fine roots,
after a
> month I do not have to wory about my dirt washing away in a large
rain
> storm, its held together by root poor.
>
> Paul
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