Couple of Gardening Hints
Pallida
13 years ago
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Mini garden hints and a question
Comments (3)I've only made outdoor mini gardens, so I can't help you on plant tips. I have had customers tell me that they bring theirs inside for the winter and they have died - they bring them back to me to be replanted in the spring (even though I give them written instructions to leave them outside!) I use the type of plants you mentioned, so....???? not sure. I'm not sure if they just set them inside the garage for the winter or bring them in the house and keep them watered. Another idea for stepping stones, I buy up old slate pieces at garage sales and take a hammer to them to make small pieces. I've also bought floor or wall tile at Home Depot or Lowes (the small pieces on a mesh backing) and peeled them off the backing. They have quite a variety, and a lot of them look like stone. I've also used broken shell pieces I've picked up at the beach - the rounded smooth kind. Have fun! Arlene...See MoreAny hints on starting a lasagna garden?
Comments (25)Hi, I have no idea what soil conditioner is, so no advice there. Makes it soft and manageable? :-) I don't buy anything to make soil, I compost a lot and scavenge other people's bagged leaves, get free horse manure, free wood chips, free old produce, etc. and just make layers over cardboard when I need to build a new lasagna bed. I have never put peat moss in a lasagna bed. It is completely unnecessary. It really helps to plan ahead to make lasagna gardens, since leaves are a great component in them, but mostly only available in quantity in the fall. Find out who in your area has animals, and get some free manure, the older the better. Ask at the store for the bag of corn husks when the corn is on sale. Get coffee grounds from Starbucks, etc. Be creative. For a lasagna garden, basically put down a layer of cardboard (I have abandoned newspaper for this purpose, cardboard is so much easier to work with and thicker.) Then build layers of various organic materials such as leaves, grass clippings, coffee grounds, finished or unfinished compost, wood shavings, manure, what have you. You can sprinkle on a handful of wood ashes but not much. If you have some spare soil, sprinkle that on the top. I am confused about the mound part, are you saying the soil between your rose bushes is a lot lower than where they are planted? Generally one builds a big area up as a lasagna bed and it is all the same level. If you just mound stuff up in various spots I imagine some of it will come tumbling down again. I never made lasagna beds 24 inches tall, just 8 to 15 inches, and seems to work fine. With roses you will have to topdress with compost and other organic material every year as the layers decomposte and get shorter. Wood chips decompose slower than other items so I like to put that as a bottom layer in my lasagna beds over the cardboard. I like to put horse manure on top of that to help the wood chips rot. Manure also goes well next to leaves. If you are planting big plants into it of course the manure should be aged a bit. Again, I stockpile that and let it sit in large containers and use it the following year. Marcia...See MoreOvergrown Garden- tips or hints?
Comments (2)OK...it has been a month and no other answers. What happened. Did the herbicides work? Now that you are this far, what do you think you might/should have done differently. Some folks might not like my way of killing off things in my yard (and not using chemicals), but I pour boiling water on unwanted roots. It shows results quickly; however, you might also destroy some of the insects that are there. Of course once all the green stuff is gone, the insects might decide to move someplace else anyway. How about a new picture?...See Morepromising new perennial (hint, hint, Far Reaches, Cistus et al)
Comments (5)The first attempt outside (pictured here) died off. However a couple plants that wintered in my garage and then were planted out a year ago survived. And one of them, which I think might be the only true W. undulata, is growing back with extreme vigor! I think the seedlot might have contained some other species because there is another one - also returning albeit more weakly - with fuzzy, rounded leaves. It amazes me they survived such a cold winter. (compared to the 12 other years I've lived here) Roughly 0F with no snow cover - lowest we've gone without it. So this makes it an extremely rare South African forb (non bulbous perennial) that can survive the heat of summer and the cold of winter around here....See Moreslowpoke_gardener
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