As some of you saw first hand, my Indian Hawthorne are in different levels of misery, due to my using a very strong weed killer in the beds. I know, boo on me. I agree, but I'm trying to help them if I can. Here's what I'm thinking: since the leaves (even on the brownest ones) haven't fallen off and the stems are not brittle, maybe if I trim all that brown off, they might pop new leaves. What do you think?
I think it is very much worth a try.
I think you should go for it. It definitely couldn't hurt and it might even help them. No use watering the dead parts.
That weed killer may not be out of the ground yet sybram, and it will continue to affect the plants, have you considered putting them in clean ground and letting them get healthy again?
Or let a slow stream of water run on them for a day or two to flush the weed killer out of the soil.
Yeah, I would definitely flush, but with them still in the ground she' ll have a swamp and the water may actually help the weed killer spread and soak in, I hope what she was poisoning is gone, chuckl, I'd be no end mad if I'd tried killin the bad stuff and it was the only thing that survives, good luck sybram
It was March 8th when I sprayed that devil's brew, so I think it's done what it's gonna do.
Kittriana, no I hadn't thought of putting them in "clean" earth, and since I have 26 of those puppies, I wish you hadn't mentioned it. My left eye started twitching as I got a mental picture of me digging them all up, replanting, then later returning them to my bed. hahaha.
I must correct something I said earlier about the leaves not falling off. They're not actually falling off, but I can strip them off, so that's what I'll be about today. Figure I need to deal with that before I get the mulch down in that area, or I'll never be able to get it cleaned/raked up. One more step.
Another question. I've bagged all the weeds I've pulled and have them setting in the sun. I was planning to let them cook for a couple of weeks (as was suggested earlier concerning my prolific nutsedge) and then use the goo on my compost. But wait!! Some of those bags will have the brown (chemically killed) leaves in them, too. I'm afraid I know the answer, but I'll ask anyway--can I still use it.
North side bed redone. Yippee! It doesn't look nearly as good as it has at it's best, but then it does look a right smart better than at it's worst. I'm happy. Lunch break--WOOHOO!
Looks great!
Answers to my question, "can I still use it?" are conspicuously absent. Come on, you guys, tell me what you think.
I think that once it's composted it would be fine to use, but make sure it's very well composted.
Thanks, Steph.
