Good luck with your garden and quitting smoking. Have you considered container gardening? Can't imagine many plants doing well in clay soil but haven't coped with it. After 20 years of serious gardening, I threw in the trowel. Some of the perennial flowers persist- chiefly phlox- a few poppies- primrose, peonies etc. A few years I would start seed beds in the basement under florescent (sp?) lamps and I must admit, it seemed a miracle as the seeds sprouted. I watched a lovely program featuring the Pillsbury villa in Provence where evergreens and shrubs were turned into works of art(started by the previous female owner who was 70 with the help of two gardeners) and am considering doing the same as I do not consider sunspots beauty marks and am opposed to all the fertilizers and overuse of water. Same for grass lawns which have contributed to run-offs in our water supply leading to unsafe drinking water and the serious health problems to fish and frogs and ultimately the entire food chain. Plus I am sensitive to bee stings- should they revive. Another warning- you will attract rabbits and racoons, wolves and bears! :-)
On Apr 9, 8:46�pm, Fritz da Cat <[email protected]> wrote: > To help keep me busy while I quit smoking I am planting a vegetable > garden. The soil here is adobe clay. I am soaking the soil then > rototilling the soil before I till in organic topsoil. With the adobe > clay soil I was thinking I'd go to a bait shop and get 5-6 dozen night > crawlers and turn them loose in the garden to start a colony. Will > they be effective in keeping the soil from clumping up, and keeping > the soil fertile along with the drip irrigation I will be installing? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
