Re: Limestone soil amendment (was Daylight savings time)

Chris,

Thanks for your recipe. The rock places here think I'm nuts and have
never heard of using crushed limestone for a soil amendment. I have,
however, found one place close by that does carry it.

It seems a lot easier for me if I make an effort to provide soil that
the plants prefer to begin with rather than to fight conditions not to
their liking. I'd like to hear how you do with your prairie plants as
most are on my list of wannas.

At 11:49 PM -0500 3/29/99, "Christopher P. Lindsey"
<lindsey@mallorn.com> wrote:

> I do have other things growing in it, but I don't know yet whether
> or not they've survived.  :)  Most of the plants that I put into it
> were native prairie species like Ruellia humilis (wild petunia),
> Dodecatheon meadia (shooting star (which is actually leafing out
> now!!!)), Viola pedata (birdsfoot violet), etc...
>
> I probably wasn't too clear about my mix, so I'll go into a little
> more detail...  Usually it includes
>
>    1 part garden soil (mostly clay :)
>    1 part paving base (like very coarse sand)
>    1 part crushed limestone
>    1 part compost
>
> Everything's mixed together.  If the plant prefers more "starved"
> conditions then I skip the compost and up the garden soil to 2 parts.
>
> Like I said, things worked pretty well with it last year.  Geum triflorum,
> Viola pedata, and Geranium renardii have all been irrigated daily in this
> mix without any adverse effects.


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Peggy Enes (peggy@unicom.net)   Zone 5/6    NE KS     AHS Heat Zone 7


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