On Aug 19, 12:36*pm, Jangchub wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:00:43 -0700 (PDT), Ivan
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On Aug 17, 1:01*pm, Jangchub wrote:
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:19:50 -0500, "Marie Dodge"

wrote:

"Billy" wrote in message
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Let's see. It's half past August now, how many nurseries in your
area are having bare root sales Jang?
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Snips!

I live in zone 6 and anything bare root this time of year is DEAD.

I think the original poster lives in the southern hemisphere, which
would put them at the end of winter coming up soon.

That'd be correct -- End of winter in 10 days .. Though we've been
rather low temperatures with heavy rains and some frosts in the
morning, so I'm expecting winter climate to be around for another
month still.... :S
Ah well, that's a whole month more I get to prepare my garden!!

Though the trees in the nurseries are already flowering .. ....

It is time to plant fruit trees now where you live. *I plant them in
February about six weeks before spring officially arrives in March.
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I didn't know there was an Australian newsgroup.
In any case, I dug a hole in the front yard.. And found that, after
digging about the depth of the spade, I started digging out gravel ..

I kept going as much as I could but didn't want to damage my shovel..

I filled the hole with water and .. About 15 minutes later, the water
was gone ..

Filled it up again, and .. It took about 20 minutes, but again, the
water was all gone ..

Perhaps it's not really as heavy with clay as I had originally
thought!

In any case, I dumped a bag of cow manure and some mushroom compost
and mixed it in a bit as much as I could with the soil in the hole ..
And will leave it open for a while ..
We're expecting heavy rains for the next day or two, so ....
I have no idea what that'll do, I'm hoping it'll mix a bit of the
manure and compost and spread it around a bit ....

Pebbles underground: good or bad?