Gardening Question

mkl
Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:45:41 +0000

Hurray! We can finally talk about something besides college.

I live in Eastern PA also and I love the corn gluten meal which you can order from Gardens Alive. I buy it from Hilltop, near Media PA. It’s a little late to spread now. It’s supposed to go down when the forsythia blooms, which started two weeks ago, south of Philly. You can still try it, though and catch the late germinating weeds. It’s also a great high nitrogen fertilizer but it will keep all seeds from germinating, so you can’t use it if you’re planting grass seed, for example.

I also garden mostly organically but used some Round Up for bind weed last fall. Now I hear from You Bet Your Garden that it kills amphibians. Yikes! What to do now? I’m using black plastic and trying to fry the patch of bind weed. So we’ll see how it goes.