Re: garden fall clean up
I do hardly any cleaning up in the fall, except maybe for dead iris foliage
because like someone else said, nature doesn't do any cleanup in the
autumn....and besides that I like to leave flower seed heads for the birds,
especially coneflowers which goldfinches love.
I do dig canna and dahlia bulbs tho and pull up tomato and pepper plants
(the best ones) and bring into garage. This is zone 5 and we had first
frost Sept 26...and the last 4 mornings, temps have been in the low 30's.
So I've given up covering anything and have reluctantly resigned myself to
the end of another growing season.
Marjorie Richards northern Indiana niksgma@skyenet.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dee Ann Scheller" <dee.ann.scheller@juno.com>
To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 7:48 PM
Subject: garden fall clean up
> Hello all,
>
> Well I finally got my largest perennial bed fall cleaned. Cut all of
> the following to about 6 inches. Monarda, rudbeckia, chelone, crocosmia,
> gailllardia, hibiscus, hosta, iris, lily, physostegia, red hot poker,
> silver king, yarrow ect. and dug a huge amount of orenothera out. It
> will return no matter how much you remove. I just couldn't chop off the
> fever few and phlox as yet because they and quite a few annuals are still
> blooming, it is only a matter of time though as we have rain and cooler
> weather predicted here in the S.W. corner of Indiana (almost KY)
>
> My Canna garden looks stunning and I just hate the thought of cutting
> them down and digging out tubers. But better to do it before the rain
> and mud and while the temp is still nice,,,,also need to dig up the
> dahlias but they look better than they have all summer.
>
> Hubby just constructed a new hot bed 29 foot long by about 30 inches wide
> for me and I have been busy dividing and potting up Hosta and Coral bell
> (mostly) to fill it up for the winter. He used old rail road ties,
> stacked 2 high in the back and a single in front with old storm windows
> hinged to close.
>
> How many of you are doing the fall clean up and how many waiting until
> spring?
> Dee Ann
> S.W. Indiana
>
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