Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Supplement soil for hedge going near fir trees? PNW
In the PNW, just South of Tacoma, I'm planting a Wintergreen Barberry hedge
about 8ft away from large mature fir trees. The soil is fairly fertile with lots of worms, but I'm concerned that the trees may not be leaving enough nutrients for the new hedge. Should I just plant, mulch and be done with it, or should I add anything to the soil to offset the trees? If I add, would that just make it worse because the trees would start encroaching on the hedge's space for the sweet nutrients I added? Thanks, Bob |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Supplement soil for hedge going near fir trees? PNW
In article , "Bob Muir"
wrote: In the PNW, just South of Tacoma, I'm planting a Wintergreen Barberry hedge about 8ft away from large mature fir trees. The soil is fairly fertile with lots of worms, but I'm concerned that the trees may not be leaving enough nutrients for the new hedge. Should I just plant, mulch and be done with it, or should I add anything to the soil to offset the trees? If I add, would that just make it worse because the trees would start encroaching on the hedge's space for the sweet nutrients I added? Thanks, Bob Nasty thorny Wintergreen Barberry is so hardy I can't imagine you having any problem with it. The trees aren't going to ruin the soil for them, though might dry out the soil a lot in summer, so will need regular watering for two years until its own roots are extensive enough to compete for moisture. Soil can be kept up to snuff with a thin late autumn topcoating of fine leaflitter, leafmold, or steer manure which also keeps weeds from popping up too greatly the following spring. I don't often or greatly fertilize woody shrubs & trees, but a slow release evergreen fertilizer to start spring wouldn't be out of order, though I think soils pretty much take care of themselves if veggies or fruits or grass clippings or leaf-fall aren't being carted away nutrients & all. Since you've noticed you have lots of worms, I'd say the odds are great that your soil is just dandy. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Supplement soil for hedge going near fir trees? PNW
"Nasty thorny Wintergreen Barberry" That's a nice way to describe them
Paghat! :-) And exactly why I want them on the perimeter of my property. If that doesn't keep the local guttersnipes off the property, I don't know what will. :-D Thanks for your advice. That's pretty much what I'd been reading on them (without the trees). So, I'm going to just roto-till the sod into the ground, plant the bushes, and then mulch over the top with chopped and shredded pine limbs. Bob "paghat" wrote in message news In article , "Bob Muir" wrote: In the PNW, just South of Tacoma, I'm planting a Wintergreen Barberry hedge about 8ft away from large mature fir trees. The soil is fairly fertile with lots of worms, but I'm concerned that the trees may not be leaving enough nutrients for the new hedge. Should I just plant, mulch and be done with it, or should I add anything to the soil to offset the trees? If I add, would that just make it worse because the trees would start encroaching on the hedge's space for the sweet nutrients I added? Thanks, Bob Nasty thorny Wintergreen Barberry is so hardy I can't imagine you having any problem with it. The trees aren't going to ruin the soil for them, though might dry out the soil a lot in summer, so will need regular watering for two years until its own roots are extensive enough to compete for moisture. Soil can be kept up to snuff with a thin late autumn topcoating of fine leaflitter, leafmold, or steer manure which also keeps weeds from popping up too greatly the following spring. I don't often or greatly fertilize woody shrubs & trees, but a slow release evergreen fertilizer to start spring wouldn't be out of order, though I think soils pretty much take care of themselves if veggies or fruits or grass clippings or leaf-fall aren't being carted away nutrients & all. Since you've noticed you have lots of worms, I'd say the odds are great that your soil is just dandy. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Douglas fir or Douglas-fir?? | Plant Science | |||
Replanting Poinsettias in the garden ? (PNW) | Gardening | |||
PNW shade-loving perennials? | Gardening | |||
Moving to PNW...how to move plants? | Gardening | |||
PNW help - Fuchsia procumbens and Jasminum nudiflorum | Gardening |