CarolC: Yup, if you do have too mush posphate, adding nitrogen and potash will bring yer soil back in balance. The organic matter that you added probably was higher in nitrogen, however. so I don't think you need anymore of that. Have you put any jypsom (sp) in yer veggie bed? If not, you should. The bag will tell you how much you need per square feet. Also, it yer plantin' in a lot of clay their is a product namned Permitill which is a crushed looking gray stone and it is a great ammendment to till into gardens with clay soils and will make that soil look and work great. Plus moles hate it and won't go near nuthin' planted in the stuff...

40's yesterday, 50's today and 70's by Saturday.

This coming weekend is the Leesburg (Va) Garden Show and it is a good one. Better that the one in D.C. by far because of the varieties of plants. One vender comes up from Southwest Virginia with nuthin' but woodsy wildflowers. Another vender, Suzanna Farms, come from Maryland woith his latest evergreen finds. He buys his stuff in Oregon and always has stuff that no one else has. Last year we bought a columnal ivy plant. Hun? Yup. To look at it from a distance you'f think it was a sky-pencil but you get up close and it has branches that grow very much like sky-pencil but the leaves are all small ivy leaves... Also got a columnal bayberry from him which should make fir an onteresting specimen plant, not to mention it's vertical qualities which are very important in the overall compostion of the gardens.

Glory be......

Bobert