bille wrote:
> How
> big was the area?
> ............1000's of ft^2
Um, Bill, I'd have to say that this answer is lacking in a few details.
I asked for specifics because it makes the suggestions more credible if one
can understand the situation in which the solution was applied.
Well, never mind. Maybe it's not your style to keep track of details. I
will say that your ideas, over the years, have suggested interesting avenues
of exploration.
Pat
I have given specifics out the yang for years -on this list- dealing w/
Albrecht balancing methodolgy, and getting rid of stoloniferous weeds via
newspaper mulch etc... I'm sorry you either didn't pay attention or skipped
it entirely.
I hate repeating myself, and need to devote time and energy to other
endeavors.
Were I you, I would find a lab that tests soil basedd on Albrecht method,
get a sample tested to get a baseline from where to start, and then plunge
in.
BIlle
Behalf Of Patricia Ruggiero
bille wrote:
> How
> big was the area?
> ............1000's of ft^2
Um, Bill, I'd have to say that this answer is lacking in a few details.
Who was talking about Iron, Carol?
You are correct, were talking about weeds like Quack, Johnson, Bermuda,
Crabgrass, etc.
Strawberries, Yummmmmmmmm
bille
getting rid of stoloniferous weeds via
> newspaper mulch etc... I'm sorry you either didn't pay attention or skipped
> it entirely.
> BIlle
Stoloniferous has nothing to do with iron; it means weeds that are like
strawberries or Bermuda grass.
Carol
Reply sent privately.
Pat
Bill wrote:
Stoloniferous has nothing to do with iron; it means weeds that are like strawberries or Bermuda grass.
Carol with a dictionary
> Who was talking about Iron, Carol?
Nobody, but that's what I think of when I see a word ending in "ferous".
Carol
Carol Jensen wrote:
> Nobody, but that's what I think of when I see a word ending in "ferous".
Hi Carol,
That comes from English being such a "magpie" language - picking up
words from all over!
Ferrous and ferric, the two adjectives that refer to iron (each relating
to a different valency of the element) come from the Latin "Ferrum" =
iron. But -ferous (with only one 'f' as somebody pointed out) comes from
an entirely different root word. "Fero" was the Latin verb for "to bear"
(as we say of a pregnant woman that she is "bearing a child", or a fruit
tree "bearing a good crop"), this word descended to us via Old English
"Ferre" with the same meaning.
You need a dictionary that gives a brief etymology, Carol!!! B-)
Tony
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Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
Of course and I should have thought of that, having studied Indo-European=
not too long ago. I know very well that Latin fero means to bear, and Da=
nish f=E6rge, pronounced very similarly to fero, is a ferry.
My spelling abilities are pretty good, but who is perfect????
Carol
> Carol Jensen wrote:
> Nobody, but that's what I think of when I see a word ending in "ferous=
".
