Re: FLUXLIST: unmulch?

2001-03-21 Thread { brad brace }
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rod Stasick wrote: --- Terrence Kosick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suet makes a great diet supplement for insect eating birds during the winter when insects are harder to find. it's quite good for use inside pianos too! True; but all those feathers make me

Re: FLUXLIST: unmulch?

2001-03-21 Thread Rod Stasick
the woodpeckers just love it - i can't figure out how to keep the crackles and starlings away from it tho' - always shoooing 'em away... R~ --- Terrence Kosick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My birds haven't complained, not a peep. Rod Stasick wrote: --- Terrence Kosick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FLUXLIST: unmulch?

2001-03-20 Thread Rod Stasick
--- Terrence Kosick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suet makes a great diet supplement for insect eating birds during the winter when insects are harder to find. it's quite good for use inside pianos too! r:Mt -- __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: FLUXLIST: unmulch?

2001-03-20 Thread Terrence Kosick
My birds haven't complained, not a peep. Rod Stasick wrote: --- Terrence Kosick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suet makes a great diet supplement for insect eating birds during the winter when insects are harder to find. it's quite good for use inside pianos too! r:Mt --

Re: FLUXLIST: unmulch?

2001-03-19 Thread Kathy Forer
Hi Carol and Terrence, Thanks so much for the mulch guidelines and suet recipe. In my eagerness to assist these green shoots, I was all set to blow on the chrysalis, too soon. I'll feed the swallows instead. Happy first day of Spring tomorrow! Kathy

FLUXLIST: unmulch?

2001-03-16 Thread Kathy Forer
Crocus are popping up, other green things too. Do I remove the moldy autumn leaves, fork them into the soil or leave them? My first real full Spring outside a window box. Are there any other chores I should do? My books don't seem too helpful, or perhaps I'm impatient. I'm happy to send seeds

Re: FLUXLIST: unmulch?

2001-03-16 Thread Carol Starr
hi kathy, it depends on where you are? i have a 'sunset' garden book that gives the zones. i am in zone 1 so when i clean out the beds at this time of year on a nice warm afternoon, i re-mulch or everything will freeze, we have frost until memorial day. i have green shoots coming up on the side