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: P* B* <y*@mail.kiva.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:05:20 -0500
We had hard frost last week and lost veggies and herbs but the perennials
are still smiling. I have one very hardy mum (orange daisy) some Calendula
(annual) Sedum (Autumn Joy) Oenothera missouriensis, Physotegia....all blooming.
Zone 5 , Indana
At 08:31 AM 11/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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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