Invasive bulb in my lawn
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Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
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Comments (6)I have some beautiful hostas planted under and among 50 foot spruce. There are nice pockets in the root spreads and the hostas do very well with what filtered light and rain water they get. I'm not big on supplemental watering once a plant establishes. Hostas are about the best of the no care plants and the variety in color and shape is endless. The ones that do best for me are the "blues" and darker greens. And most of mine were the easy to find and inexpensive ones from Home Depot, Walmart and the little seasonal garden centers that crop up in parking lots. I don't crave the rare and exotic. Google has some nice images of hosta gardens under trees. Edited to add: Got ahead of myself and I overlooked your high hardiness zone - hostas might not fare as well in your climate. This post was edited by duluthinbloomz4 on Fri, Jun 28, 13 at 18:17...See MoreDoes lawn edging really work? invasives, too?
Comments (3)My mom planted mint in a big, deep plastic pot with the bottom cut out. I'm not sure if it grew out from under the pot, but the stems flopped over and rooted outside the pot, plus seedlings appeared some feet away from the mother plant. So, I'd have to say No, lawn edging would not be an effective containment system for mint. For anything as tall as Joe Pye Weed, I'd guess you'd need something about a foot deep - and my JPW spreads more by seedlings than by spreading. I do use both steel and plastic edging - 4" wide - to keep the grass out of the beds. I still have to monitor that edge, but it's fairly effective. I use it along with bricks for a mowing strip. It's much better than bricks alone, since they're not quite deep enough to stop the grass (plus, there are gaps between the bricks, of course)....See Moreinvasive mushrooms on lawn
Comments (2)Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of enormous networks of fungi under the soil. They're actually a good thing, indicating that the soil is pretty healthy. You want good fungi down there as they do plenty of jobs for you, like aerating and processing organic material into plant food. You can pick them if you like, the only thing you're doing is removing the fruit from the tree, so to speak. For most mushrooms, I tend to simply ignore them....See MoreAnyone recognize this invasion of my lawn
Comments (1)It looks like wild plantain. I try to pull it out whenever it has trained and the ground is soft. I gather if you chop it up the oil is good for relieving the itch of bee stings, but I still pull it out when I can....See Morebelfastmom
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