"Natural fence" using large container garden planters...ideas?
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Comments (6)Thanks for the illustration and suggestions regarding the trellis. Yardvaark - the utilities planted in the area along the fence were marked as electrical, cable, and phone. I talked to someone at the cable company in more detail and they stated the line was "energized" as it fed multiple homes. The lines run between two junction boxes that are at the corners of our property. I couldn't obtain a depth but others have told me 6 to 12 inches is where they generally are. As far as the easement that is something I am not sure about. I'll have to do some more research....See Morelarge container gardening in coir based compost
Comments (2)mycorrhizal fungi colonizing the surface of the coir compost. :) happy happy fungi...See MoreI made a soil mistake for my large container garden.
Comments (3)Sorry, but compost will not help this soil. No matter how much you add, or how you add it. If you think of a bowl of pudding, which is much like your soil, how much compost would you have to add to it to make it drain well? How much PERLITE? Even perlite, the "drainage material" won't help a soil with problems due to fine particulates - unless the perlite is about 75% of the soil. Compost, if it is finished, is too small in particulate size to work well as the basis of a container soil, much less as an amendment for an already too fine soil. I would suggest that she remakes the soil and uses 1 part of her existing soil to 5 parts of pine bark fines and 1 part of perlite. This will give her a well-aerated soil that will retain it's structure far longer than what she has or any combination of what she has with compost. Al...See Morelarge dogs and container gardening(m0
Comments (5)I deal with this all the time. Much easier to move the plants than to convince the dogs to leave them alone. Dogs can't control their tails or their exuberance, and teaching them not to chew your plants when you're gone much of the day is a many-year-long process. Meanwhile you lose plants. Walking the dogs in the AM won't tire them out though. Running them might, but young labs have way more energy than you do and you won't be able to tire them out while keeping them on leash. They're hunting dogs, designed to run all day long through field and stream. I've learned the hard way with the current two dogs that I have to keep potted plants where the dogs can't reach them (and I can't underestimate what they can reach) and I have to fence off breakable landscaping plants and the veggies and berries. Not their tails so much but the new 60lb pit bull likes to chew up plastic nursery containers, and the plants in them. I don't think she's ever had a yard before so even though she's a mature dog she's acting like a puppy in the yard. And she's getting at potted plants no previous dog ever got to, actually crawling under or climbing over things I was using as protection for the plants behind them. Every dog is different! The other dog once chewed a young rhodie right down to the ground. He wasn't eating it, just destroying it. Fortunately it has recovered but it's taken three years, and he didn't swallow it so didn't get sick. They also bulldoze right over shrubs while playing or chasing squirrels. I've put up chicken wire to keep them off the rhodies but sometimes they bulldoze over that too. I can't blame them, they're just being dogs, and there's a limit to what they can learn about respecting the garden. For the dogs' sakes and your peace of mind I would just move the plants and make the effort to check on them. In the summer they'll need daily watering anyway....See Moredrew51 SE MI Z5b/6a
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