Re: tucking in plants
- Subject: Re: tucking in plants
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 04:42:29 -0400
Ground has, indeed, been concrete. If you water where you intend to
dig deeply the day before you want to work the soil, you will find
your concrete clay has loosened up and is workable once more. In the
heat we've had, even setting a sprinkler on a bed for 2 hours just
moistens the soil to workable stage; doesn't get to sticky clay
stage. With cooler weather, might need to water 2 days before.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: glink@att.net
>
> I have gotten a good laugh from those of you who say you
> just "tuck in" a plant here or there - you make it sound
> so easy! In my case it would be more like pry and heave
> and hack and chip and blast! to get anything in the
> ground here. When it's not an absolute brick as it
> usually is all summer, the incredibly tough grass puts
> up a heck of a fight. Things in shade are
> barely surviving, but those that don't bloom unless they
> are in sun - are burning up. Still discovering things
> that died while I was gone & SO forgot to water them.
> Siberian iris. Clematis. I think I've saved my astilbe
> by punching a hole in a jug next to it & filling it
> every morning. And the dahlia that died to the ground
> is re-sprouting. Maybe it still has time to make enough
> bulb to save & bloom next year. Those of you who can
> just "tuck" - I'm green with envy!
> Gale Link
> Nashville z6
>
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