http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2005/07/02/a-good-gardening-day/ Hardy plants for hardy souls Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2005/07/02/a-good-gardening-day/comment-page-1/#comment-457 Kathy Purdy Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:38:56 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/?p=441#comment-457 I don't know enough about Preen to have an opinion of it. Since I'm not paying myself to garden, I find it cheaper to weed it myself than to buy another product. I'd rather spend the money on plants! What I really need to do is make my garden smaller so it's not so much to take care of. But I'd rather put up with the mess than make it smaller. I guess you could say I've made my bed, and now I have to lie--er, weed it. I don’t know enough about Preen to have an opinion of it. Since I’m not paying myself to garden, I find it cheaper to weed it myself than to buy another product. I’d rather spend the money on plants! What I really need to do is make my garden smaller so it’s not so much to take care of. But I’d rather put up with the mess than make it smaller. I guess you could say I’ve made my bed, and now I have to lie–er, weed it.

]]> http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2005/07/02/a-good-gardening-day/comment-page-1/#comment-455 Alice Nelson Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:49:43 +0000 http://www.coldclimategardening.com/?p=441#comment-455 Do you have an aversion to Preen? It could save a lot of wear and tear on your wrist even though it isn't organic. One bed we had put in for the city we didn't get to again for less than 3 weeks, and it was filled with weeds. One weed in particular, which I haven't seen before but I think may be in the tomato family, had grown so fast and furiously, already blooming,that it was a foot or more high and hiding all the plants in that area. It surrounded a large boulder for a foot or more in all directions. I believe I pulled about a bushel and a half of it. It had grown so fast in such a short time that it had not shaded out the plants under it yet, although they are all sunlovers. This is why I find it important in my work to use Preen.We are now using it on that bed. I don't have enough workers and the city doesn't have enough of either money or volunteers! Do you have an aversion to Preen? It could save a lot of wear and tear on your wrist even though it isn’t organic. One bed we had put in for the city we didn’t get to again for less than 3 weeks, and it was filled with weeds. One weed in particular, which I haven’t seen before but I think may be in the tomato family, had grown so fast and furiously, already blooming,that it was a foot or more high and hiding all the plants in that area. It surrounded a large boulder for a foot or more in all directions. I believe I pulled about a bushel and a half of it. It had grown so fast in such a short time that it had not shaded out the plants under it yet, although they are all sunlovers. This is why I find it important in my work to use Preen.We are now using it on that bed. I don’t have enough workers and the city doesn’t have enough of either money or volunteers!

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