Re: OT- rain and rocks

Hi Claire,
You're right, the weather has been very extreme lately. Last
summer was very mild and moist, which is also odd for Kansas. We
didn't have much snow at all this past winter. When I tried to
mulch the garden, everything kept blowing away. They are
beginning to worry about the aquifer, and all the irrigation
going on. I can keep the roots moist to a point, but the hot dry
air sucks the life out of everything but weeds. The wheat is not
looking great. Stock up on flour while it's cheap,
everybody...What are brooms? I will be sure to look for stachys
and brooms at the garden center clearance this weekend!
Sharon

ECPep@aol.com wrote:

> Did you have winter rain or snow melt?  We had three years of virtually no
> rain in the summer growing season in NYS.  This spring, around the first of
> May, the rain started and has not stopped.  During the dry summers, and we do
> not have summer here yet, poppies were one of the best plants, both annual
> and perennial.  It would seem a good idea to learn both drought tolerant
> plants as well as more thirsty border plants.  Stachys in five or six forms
> flourishes in dry poor soils, also brooms when you can find the smaller ones.
> Additionally, adding rock in natural looking designs helps the garden look
> good while being baked by the sun and wind.
> 
> The weather extremes may have always been with us but I do not seem to
> remember months and months of drought, now months and months of rain and
> gloomy weather.  One storm last week produced four inches of rain.  For
> sometime we had been learning to garden without the rain, now the opposite.
> 
> Claire Peplowski
> East Nassau, Ny z4
> 
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