Re: columbine
- Subject: Re: [SG] columbine
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 03:37:40 -0400
You have what I've always called pocket gophers and I understand they
will eat everything. Yes, the 'gopher' back east here AKA groundhog
does resemble a marmot.
I think your berms are the answer. If your ground stays soggy at
all, it is death to columbine. Put some on one of your berms and see
what happens..they should drain well.
They should grow well in your window boxes as long as you keep them
watered...those boxes are generally small and dry out fast.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Lucy Kemnitzer <ritaxis@CRUZIO.COM>
>
> We only have the little ones. I talked to a friend who grew up
> back east and he said your ground hogs are a lot like the marmots
> in the Sierras, but otherwise I've never seen a ground hog. The
> gophers do seem to eat everything, including
> things that are supposed to be toxic.
>
> I don't know. The soil seems to drain well to about six-twelve
> feet,
> where the water level is. But maybe that's it. This time of
> year I can hardly
> keep the soil watered: in the winter it's often too wet to work
> for a week or
> more at a time, which is one of my Rational Reasons why I don't
> garden
> in the most verdant time of the year for us.
>
> I've been building berms to take up the slack on the compost and
> make the
> place more interesting: I wonder if they'll also be better places
> for plants
> that want dry feet?
>
> I have a couple of
> columbines in a window box just now, the crowded kind where you
> stick in any pretty plant that catches your eye every time
> something comes to the end of its tether. They're poking along
> so far,
> but we'll see. The window box drains well, the nice fellow made
> sure of
> it when he built it on.
>
>
>
> Lucy Kemnitzer
