Jenny
Angel Diva
I know, right?Goldilocks and the Weeds
I know, right?Goldilocks and the Weeds
None of my cucumber plants survived the surprise snow/freeze, and one of my tomato plants looks terrible - it already had a cracked stalk, so I think this was the death knell. As soon as I'm feeling better, I'll get replacements, I guess. Boo.
Bummer, I was hoping you'd be as lucky as me. My peas, and even my lettuce (!) survived temps in the 20's and 6" or so of snow.
@bounceswoosh...bummer. That really stinks. I hate when I have to start over. But I can cheer you up, I have a $500 hinoki (9' tall foundation plant) that's dying and one of my pear trees split in half last year and broke off....now this past storm split the remaining half in half. So I don't think the neighbors will put up with a 1/4 pear tree and it's too big for us to deal with on our own. Ugh.
I'm sorry. We actually just had a dead, massive shade tree removed, and a tiny little baby tree put in its place. The shade tree was probably 30' tall. It was finally really shading the deck. The whole process was somewhere close to $1500 - removal, stump grind, planting.
Seriously?? $1500?? ugh.. I hope not.
Note to gardeners -always check the level of aggressive!
Bricks won't help with grass, you'll have to dig down deep enough to get below the root system and then put in some sort of edging that goes down that far. And dig up all the grass to the roots thats in the bed.
Oh, hey - so what *do* you do once grass has seriously started filling in your flowerbed? There are tulips at the back part of this flowerbed, and the grass has fully taken over a lot of it. I've been pulling it out, but it seems like even more of a losing battle than weeds. Is there any option short of digging everything up? There's just one of those little metal strips; maybe putting bricks between the grass and the flowerbed would do a better job?
Round up.
Seriously. Once it gets too think, there's no getting rid of it. AFAIK, there's no barrier known to man that will keep grass out. I routinely round up the perimeter of my beds. Once in a while I have to dig out sections of the flower beds and save what I can, but that's pretty rare.
I'm going to have to keep an eye on one of my new ones, the Dame's Rocket. Reading up on it, it's considered invasive in the Michigan woods and byways, to the point where it's included in the "pull it up wherever you see it" campaign, like the garlic mustard plant is.Note to gardeners -always check the level of aggressive!i
Still a wee bit early in this growing zone, even though it has been unseasonably warm. People are "jumping the gun" and might regret that - still some cool weather pending (for the record, it snowed here, measurably, on Mother's Day 2002). Throwing in some early stuff and hardening off flats now, hope to get it all done next weekend, on average schedule. Due to poor soil, we're not as gung-ho as when we lived elsewhere with great soil. But it's enough - for me.Anyone else get a good planting in this weekend?