Moved to New Orleans and need help with medium
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Comments (2)First, please be very careful advertising for someone to come to help your (I'm assuming single, living alone) daughter. You can never be too careful. Several things I can suggest. Enlist her own friends to help one day or weekend. Provide food and lots of hydration. It will be hot and humid. Why till? Raised beds done the "lasagna gardening" way would be quite easy. She will need lots of cardboard or newspaper, which she can begin saving now. Newspaper works best in my opinion. She does not need to enclose the beds, just pile them up with sloped sides like a hill. Also she can search online for "square foot gardening" which can be adapted to the piled up hills. Another way to find landscape or garden help would be to attend some of the spring garden shows about to happen there. Have her watch the paper, news, or online. City Park Botanical Gardens has a big show and plant sale, with lots of groups and clubs and vendors represented. There will be other shows too likely in March. She can also contact the Master Gardener's and LSU Ag Center or Cooperative Extension Service. They will send her or direct her online to lots of great info on growing in N.O. Laurie (from N.O.)...See MoreMoving to New Orleans...
Comments (16)What you can grow in New Orleans but can't on the north shore. Used to live below the French Quarter in Bywater. Though I'm not now on the north shore but the Mississippi Coast Just above the Bay Of St Louis. In Bywater I had a huge Bouganvilla that almost coverd my old Creole cottage. Though the occasional frost did give it trouble in winter. Every spring and summer I was blessed with all that color. I've tried to grow Bougainvilla several times here. Every winter the frost kills it. Xanthus. Welcome to the deep south. Seems around Thanksgiving or at least by Christmas you'll start seeing the 1st of the early Camillia blooming. Then the mid season and late season Camilias. Oh you have to plant your pansy's and petunia early to get rooted before the frost. They'll be gone the 1st of summer. The Camillias will be followed, by the oriental Magnolias. They by the Louisiana phlox, azelias and on the north shore and Mississippi dogwood. Then the Louisiana Irises. Amaryliss. Then you're headed into warm weather. And we have the tropicals. Then you look for an air conditioner to stand next to till fall where it begins again. What did I leave out?...See MoreVolunteers Needed In New Orleans Dec 4-8 2006
Comments (1)Hope your project went well....See MoreMoving to new apt. Need design help.
Comments (2)Don't know why this question would be showing up in ONLY the Landscape Design forum ...? Anyway, since you have a balcony, if you want to grow something in a pot, I would consider annuals ... anything that is heat tolerant. If you want something that is tall and provides some quick screening, consider corn. Yes, plain old corn. It's quick growing and very attractive in a pot. Plant seeds 3" deep. If too shallow they will fall over when young. 8 seeds per 15 gallon container. If where you eat is bar height and the floor is hard surface, I'd recommend getting a nice drafting stool (on casters) with arms as is much more convenient and comfortable than many/most common bar height stools. Most have of them have no wheels so must be dragged. Many don't swivel so getting in and out is harder. Arms add comfort....See More- 6 years ago
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