Re: What is still blooming in Zone 5 and red clay
- To: perennials
- Subject: Re: What is still blooming in Zone 5 and red clay
- From: W*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:31:13 -0500 (EST)
Interesting to see that I still have tomato blossoms!!! I still have about10
baseball sized tomato's, which are still green, have to bring inside and let
redden ,but they still taste good!! Vines are getting a little straggly now
though!
My rue still has pretty yellow heads, the lavendar and rosemary look good,
I've picked a bunch to dry, always cut back and comes right back in the
spring. Mum's got a little frosty last week, but are still giving off lots of
color! Pansies are still going great guns, so I have some color out there!
We have had lots of rain, predicting snow flurries and still I have bulbs to
plant! I've planted bulbs after the first freeze and they came up the next
spring, so I'm not to worried yet! I've planted bulbs in snow already!
Live in South St Louis County, and we have lots of clay, also live around
Bussen Quarry, and have lots of naturally occuring rock, have tried the top
soil, and unless you dig it in deep, you are just wasting money!
When I dig a new bed, I always amend with humus and lots of it! Dug a new
bed in the front of my house, just a small irregular shaped bed, about 10 sq
ft. Dug down through 2 feet of red clay, took that dirt and filled in
around the drive way, have two teenage drivers who can't always hit the
concrete! Then broke up the next 8 inches or so and added 120 lbs of humus.
Layered four newspaper sheets, over the broken up and humus enriched soil,
covered with large pine bark. Placed some pots of mums to look pretty, but
will not plant anything there until fall of 1998 for spring bloom, and will
add summer and fall bloomers throughout 1998, adding compost as I go.I always
fill with annuals, will pull off mulch slowly in spring, when adding the
annuals. I then fill in with any leaves I have left over from this fall. We
have raked twice already this year, but the trees are slow to drop leaves
this fall, so I will probably not grind them all up till after Thanksgiving!
Last year at this time all the leaves were on the ground!
Still enjoying the great outdoors, but now with heavy socks and lots of
sweatshirts!
Wanda in St Louis
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