Subj : Ivy was: Tis the Season
To   : Mike Powell
From : Dave Drum
Date : Sat May 18 2024 05:18:00

-=> Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 MP> It was gardening soil, IIRC, purchased.  The good black stuff.  That
 MP> said, about 5 or so inches below that is the earth that was there
 MP> before the flower bed was planted.  There used to be two big boxwoods
 MP> there so not much grew underneath them, but that doesn't mean stuff
 MP> wasn't waiting under them to come up.

My nephew is a carpenter/contractor and he will furnish my planting
dirt (and use of his dump trailer) so I should be golden there. I've
also got (started last fall) a compost barrel going that I got from 
the pages of Mother Earth News. The barrel is horizontal in a frame-
work that lets it rotate. I added a wind driver belt drive to turn
it verrrrrry slowly. Should work out nicely. I also kept the hand 
crank - J.I.C.  Bv)=

 > I don't have much in the way of flowers. A rose that was here when I
 > moved in 8 years ago. It has its own trellis and produces smallish,
 > deep red (almost purple) flowers. And the surprise lillies which surely
 > surprised me when they poppedout of the ground and flowered the first
 > time. They were in front of the decorative hedge that I just disappeared
 > so I'll have to be sure not to locate a planter on top of thhm.

 MP> A couple of years after I moved in, I had a few tulips pop up in places
 MP> where there had previously not been any.  I suspect it had something to
 MP> do with me removing a whole mess of english ivy that had taken over.

English Ivy - the stuuf that gave the Ivy League its name. Ivy covered 
professors in ivy covered halls. Bv)=

Learned early on how to combat it. If it's growing up a wall or a tree
where it's unwanted cut it off at ground level, Then go about six inches
up the vine and cut again. This removes the source of moisture and food
and the vine soon dies. 

We had a wood lot with a lot of black walnet trees - and harvested both
nuts and wood so my grandfather didn't want anything mucking about with
them. Oaks and shag-bark hickory were not so carefully protected. 

Is this a local echo? I went looking on other boards I visit and found
Home 'n Garden (and subscribed).

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