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Re: [Livingontheland] Livingontheland Digest, Vol 64, Issue 1

From: Gloria Baikauskas <gcb49@flash.net>
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Livingontheland Digest, Vol 64, Issue 1
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:58:09 -0700 (PDT)

Why did you pull the flowers out of the garden roots and all? It is always best to leave the roots...cut the plants off at the soil level without leaving a stub. That way over winter they decompose adding to the soil. In plants that fix nitrogen pulling them out roots and all means you pull the nitrogen with it as it for the most part is released after the plants die.

Gloria, Texas

US zone 8a

Re: [Livingontheland] Livingontheland Digest, Vol 64, Issue 1, Gloria Baikauskas, 10/23/2006
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