Alaska gardening: Just because it is raining doesn’t mean you should ignore your gardens. All your vegetables should be doing just fine. Flowers may be a different matter. Some blooms can really hold a lot of water.
Am I allowed to write about rain these days? Given my rain-causing track record, I do have to be careful. Thankfully, the weeks of wet weather we have experienced should convince even the skeptics that this column did not cause all the moisture we have had recently.
And I am sure you have heard that rain drops cause the release of geosmin, an organic compound made by bacteria known as Streptomyces. You definitely have smelled this earthy compound as the human nose is extremely sensitive to it; we are 200,000 times more sensitive to its smell than a shark is to the smell of blood! Why? Some speculate it had to do with ancients’ need to find water, but that is possibly another column.
Flowers may be a different matter. We still are getting blooms, but some can really hold a lot of water and this can weigh the larger ones down. This is why you should have staked delphiniums, caged peonies and supported dinner plate dahlias. If it is not too late for yours, do it this weekend. We might get more rain, don’t you know!
Next, make sure there is mulch under the tree’s drip line. Leaves are the ticket here but not too thick, please. No “volcano shapes” around the trunk which, actually, should be free of mulch so the bark won’t decay.
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