Re: [gardeners] peat moss
drusus@golden.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 07:49:18 -0400
At 09:04 PM 18-04-99 PDT, you wrote:
>Dear Allen,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion and help. Now, let's see if I understand
>it correctly: dig hole, fill empty hole with water and let it seep
>in, then fill it with dry peat/soil and the plant, and water again.
>Is that right? I'm very new to gardening....in fact, these are my
>first attempts. So, I have to be very basic about my directions.
>Thanks alot for your reply.
>
> My grass seed trial is a bust.... I want a small oval of grass out
>in the backyard, and spread seed 3 and a half weeks ago. Today I
>raked up the light covering of hay -- and practically no germination.
> Maybe just l0%. Sigh. I do have alot of violets blooming back there
>and I just read in a gardening book that that indicates the soil is
>too acidic for grass. Can I spread lime now or is it too late for any
>hope this year?
Reseed with a shade tolerant and fresher batch of seed. Violets grow in
shady areas generally so that might be a problem here, also sounds like bum
seed OR are you having a late spring?? That sure can affect germination
rate of just about anything. Water daily. I have violets and grass in the
same spots, have always had. Violets do tend to kill off every other
living thing, so I dig out as many as possible.
Lucinda
>
> I'm awaiting the arrival of my big project plants: blueberry
>bushes, rosa rugosas, blackberries, and raspberries bushes. Hope they
>come this week -- the weather forecast is just perfect for hard labor
>outdoors: cloudy and cool, in the low 60's.
>
> clavery111
> zone 7b
> Bethesda, MD
>
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