laen🪻does anyone have any experience growing serviceberry (amelanchier alnifolia) in crappy, calcium-heavy soil?
i've been searching and have found both that it's fine and that it's terrible ...
thank you!
edited to add #gardening
Alex Haist@moonrabbit I don't know that soil type in particular, but serviceberries are tough little guys in general and do well as street trees, which suggests they can deal.
@alexhaist
thank you! we've got herbs growing like anything there, so hopefully it would do ok too?
and you, are you doing ok?
@moonrabbit if it isn't killing herbs, it's unlikely to kill a tree.
I'm okay! I need to fill out an additional form for my disability application, so I'm in a tizzy. Done with that for tonight, though.
@alexhaist
i suppose i was thinking about root depth. the soil there is almost gravelly and quite compacted, but actually it's better far down, so if the tree could get past the top ... (and we'd give it lots of compost when we planted it anyway)
and there's lots of borage around too, so that's breaking it all up a bit.
i stumbled onto it as a possibility for the patch we need to fill*, and the place we get plants has wee ones for 8€, and i'm suddenly desperate for one, having read about them lots, but i just don't want to give it a bad life.
and eek, i hope it goes ok. very wise of you to leave it for today. get some sleep! form gnomes will help tomorrow 
*veg patch that i'm not well enough to manage anymore, so we need to plant it with more permanent things ...