keeping grass edge separate from garden
joannpalmyra
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Comments (11)With our heavy rains that parts of the US have been having after the rain slows go out and check your plants to see if they are still planted. Look around the area to see if you can find them if they have washed away. You can hold over night or so in a dampened paper towel. Then try to raise the sides of the bed an inch or so pr use rocks to suround your bed until the plants take root. Store bought compost can be used to raise the edges if you go this route. Once the plants are settled in and extend their roots into the ground you should not have a problem with them washing....See MoreHow to you separate lawn from garden?
Comments (6)I think the typical extruded curb is about 6x6. It's usually laid on a thin bed of 5/8" minus gravel. I had someone do mine, mower edge around the lawn and regular around the beds. I just like the fact that lawn stays in lawn, walkway stays in walkway, and beds stay in beds. The going rate to have someone do it is about $3 a foot for everything. What I really like is I can edge the whole thing with a primitive hand edger in about 5 minutes. Here's a pic of my back lawn before I did my beds and plantings. Here is a link that might be useful:...See MoreKeeping centipede grass and weeds out of my garden
Comments (1)Centipede grass, as I recall, spreads via stolens, roots that travel along the soil surface, so keep it out of a planting bed is relatively easy with a good barrier. Once in a garden bed it can be easily removed mechanically, digging the grass and all roots out, while tilling can provide many more bits of roots to grow into much more grass. A good mulch will help with the "weeds" and laying down newspaper, or cardboard (really the same thing), and covering that with enough of a good mulch material (shredded leaves, wood chips, straw, hay) to hold the paper in place and hide it as well will aid greatly in controlling those "weeds". The paper, whether newspaper or cardboard, deprives the plants it covers with access to the sunlight all plants need to grow and so those plants, "weeds", will then die and when they die the nutrients they took from the soil will be put back inot the soil from whence they came. If you use newspaper or cardboard there is no good reason to use landscape fabric....See Morekeeping the grass out of my garden
Comments (1)You could put some wet cardboard on them and cover it up with compost or manure. That will stop the weeds and fertilize for next spring. Or plant a green cover crop that you can rototill in next spring. This will add nitrogen and probably outgrow any weeds. Lee...See Moreuofmrocky
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