Thankyou all for reminding me of the basics for conditioning my newest bed. Gypsum works well for me here and I have several bags of silver birch, liquid amber and maple leaves stacked beside it under the old plum tree…
Day: February 10, 2010
Soil conditioners etc. & Summer Blooms.
I love those pithy words! As soon as I look it up in the dictionary, I will start using it, too. Thanks, Linda! Thanks, Bill! Don’t you have to use compost and leaves to counteract the akaline tendency of the…
Soil conditioners etc. & Summer Blooms.
In a message dated 2/10/2010 12:51:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Soil conditioners etc. & Summer Blooms.
Just a quick note, I don’t know very much about daffodils, but I do know that soil conditioning is fraught with all kinds of situation-specific issues and gypsum is one of the additives that is not appropriate for ALL types…
Soil conditioners etc. & Summer Blooms.
Margaret – Long ago Tom Stettner turned me on to gypsum as a soil additive. Terrific stuff. It flocculates the clay, making it easier for things like leaf litter to incorporate. Linda W.
to: Daffies and Dahlias and Glads – oh my!
Dear Franck, It was with great pleasure that I visited the beautiful site which you indicated in your email to DaffNet. As you will be able to see in the page http://www.floriana.ws/FACILE/SENTIERO_VERDE/P/foto/descrizione_T_V/descrizione_T_V/Dahlia/giardini/giardini_dalie.htm, so far I was unable to include a…