im looking to kill everything including the grass.
csrmel
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I'm Sure I'm Doing Everything WRONG!
Comments (10)To aid in identifying, I made a little diagram of the pot. I spent many hours last night looking at pictures to try to identify things myself. I confess I am too green to have any confidence, though. 5, 6, & 9 are identified. 1 may be a kind of Echeveria? Maybe a Tylecodon? 2 Sempervivum? 3 a type of Haworthia? 4 Aeonium? I do have more close-up pictures of the individual plants, if that would be of any help. And not to be pushy, but keep in mind that I'd love to get ideas on which members of my collection I can successfully grow together. If I can just run with what I think I like together visually, great. But I'm receptive to other concerns. It may take a while to get the whole collection up here. I have some plants that had labels, but I want to try to verify the labels first....See MoreHelp, this root is killing everything
Comments (12)It isn't the soil....but the place where you put it--under a tree. And you did it with 10". So much soil is killing the tree. Without going into a long spiel about why you should not ever plant under a tree in the fashion you did, I suggest you read material on "why you should not put soil under a tree" and how a minimum amount can be placed there. In as few words as possible, the soil, being so much, is depriving the tree of necessary air and moisture. The tree's roots have now another source of water---up there where you planted the perennials. There is a safe method to use where tree roots invade spaces you wish to use. Such method must be followed so as to not harm the tree's stability or its way of taking up moisture. The tree right now is dying....you may not notice it for still some time, but it is being killed. The remedy is to remove the soil from under the tree down to a depth of 2" or less. Scratch the surface to invite the perennial roots to go deeper. But most perennials do not need deep rooting, they thrive on roots barely under the soil. It was expected you wish to improve the soil the perennials were growing in....but you should not have put so much soil under the tree. Pretty soon, if you don't rectify the problem, you might notice some branches, maybe a limb, is deteriorating, losing leaves. That is the start of what will eventually do in the entire tree. You cant just water the tree more, its still starving of air you are preventing it from taking in. The only fix is to remove the beds as they are and then do a more low depth of garden....See MoreHerbicide that kills everything
Comments (4)What would be available to utilities to control unwanted plant growth would not be available to you unless you were a licensed pesticide applicator. Contact your local office of the University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service to find out what might be available to you. http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/lawn_and_garden/ kimmq is kimmsr...See MoreSelectively killing Bermuda grass in Buffalo grass
Comments (8)I had Bermuda patches all over my Blue Grass yard. I tried several different chemicals, some from box stores and some commercial grade. They did nothing but "control" it. None of them of them killed it except for Roundup but then it kills everything else AND the Bermuda still came back in most of the areas. I had always heard that you will end up digging it up so after about 5 years of a lot of time and money trying to get rid of it I finally set aside a weekend and dug it all out. You don't have to go very deep, just a couple inches. The next weekend I picked up 300 sq ft of Blue Grass sod ($120.00) and patched everything up. It's been a couple years since then and everything looks great....See MoreKimmsr
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