Re: Orville Fay
Maybe the soil is like a local nursery describes our area's native soil as
red adobe clay softened with rocks. I remove the bigger rocks (have been up
to 300#) but heavily add compost and gypsum to improve tilth. This is
especially true for the Siberians. Clay itself is relatively good for water
retention.
Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden
El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Dickow" <dickow@uidaho.edu>
To: <sibrob@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [sibrob] Orville Fay
> How the devil could rocks retain water? My guess is that rocks have
improved
> drainage or aeration rather than water retention. The only failures I have
> in my garden concerning siberians seem to be related to rhizome rot and
> heavy wet clay. Dryness never results in total failure (=death) for my
> plants.
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> Bob
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> > I will add one more soil amendment practice here if I do not get laughed
> off
> > the list.
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> > I add rocks
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