A Short List of Proposed Trees and Plants Zone 7b
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short crabgrass infestation in 7b moab, ut problem
Comments (1)Okay, way, Way, WAY, WAAAAAAAYYYYY too much information. Please try to stay on topic. If all your tenant agreement says is "maintain and irrigate," you're screwed. Your definition of maintain and irrigate is apparently different from theirs. It's your opinion against theirs. Your word has nothing to do with it. It's all opinion because you used loose language. If you want to ensure you get 100% crabgrass coverage by July, follow your current plan. If you want to get rid of crabgrass do this... 1. Water deeply and infrequently. You're almost there with the 5-day flood plan. Can you stretch that to 14 days this time of year and gradually work it up to 7 days when the temps get into the 90s? 2. Mulch mow at the mower's highest setting. 3. Fertilize once in the late spring and twice in the fall. 4. WAIT UNTIL FALL to reseed. Crabgrass seed only germinates in the spring and only when it lands on moist soil which remains moist for several days. If you withhold water and allow the soil surface to dry out completely, then you have a shot a not having any crabgrass. But you need a dense turf. Fescue has that problem of becoming less dense over time unless you continually reseed in the fall. So it was not your tenant's fault that you have crabgrass in his lawn....See MoreZone 7b bed to peak in late summer/fall?
Comments (13)My main flowerbed has many large clumps of Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldstrum' (or maybe it's R. hirta, whatever the common wildflower is) and they put on quite a show. My only complaint is that they tend to rest in between flushes of blooms - so there are long periods where I don't have any color. And the pattern of when they bloom or not bloom is totally up to the weather and is different every year. Mixed in with them is every color of Garden Phlox available and they bloom up til the first hard frost in my yard (which is usually November). I also have Obediant plant. In my bed it isn't much of a thug. I planted it last so it isn't winning the turf war with the phlox or black eyed susans. The bed endures long periods of dryness and only gets 4 hours of stong light in the late afternoon so that may be why it just sorta limps along and pops up here and there between all the tall bloomers. I grow a lot of Goldenrods and especially like 'Fireworks' which tends to bloom around mid September. Stokesias do well for me as long as they are out in front of everything else. They tend to bloom now and then rest and rebloom in Sept or Oct. I really like using baby palms (Sabal minor) as foliage accents mixed in with all the bloomers. Once they get tall they tend to dominate everything - but with my lack of strong sunlight that takes forever. You don't really see the 'fan' shape of the leaves just long pokey spikes sticking up and through the clouds of blooms. I know, most folks would want the palms front and center but I like them this way. I have two perennial mums and I don't know either of their names. One is a pale apricot, sorta wild flower looking and very stunning with the right shades of yellow or oranges around it. The other is like stubby white daisies and it blooms way late in the year - like after first frost and on til Christmas if the weather stays mild in the daytime....See MoreEdible landscape ideas for zone 7b
Comments (25)Any chance you can solarize without causing too much trouble? 3" of compost would probably be enough to get started, especially if you can solarize first, and then till in the compost. Top that with 2" of hardwood mulch, and you're golden. Also, start going to Starbucks and ask them to collect the used grounds for you. They'll give it to you free. Sometimes I'm able to get about 40 lbs from a single trip to the store up the street. If there is a composting facility near you, you might be able to get free compost or free mulch. The city of Allen has a free compost program. The only problem is that you might end up with undesirable results. My front yard in those pics is nothing more than Texas clay with 2" of compost and coffee grounds on top, with 1.5" of mulch on top of that. Also be careful along your foundation. Typically you want to maintain the mulch line at or below 3" from the top of the foundation to prevent termites. I tend to go a little higher - 1.5-2" from the top of the foundation, but our entire property has a 10 year termite warranty. Here is a link that might be useful: Solarize your grass...See MoreHow difficult to take out these junipers? (Zone 7B, Birmingham, AL)
Comments (6)Copying my reply from a different thread: Hey all, we got it done last week. Took a LOT longer than we expected it to take, but it looks great--except for the neighbor who wouldn't let us take up the rest of her vines on her side. We would have planted sod for her to make it look better, but she was really stinky about the whole thing. (I learned that when a Southern woman starts out with "I don't want to be ugly..." she's going to be.) And there's NO WAY these could have been taken out with a truck and a rope as one suggested above. No landscaper/tree service wanted this job at all, and we did indeed encounter cable lines. It was the neighbor's vines all wound up among the junipers that made this so hard. Before During: Once we finally cut all the shrubbery out--and to show how our neighbor didn't want us to touch her side. Didn't intend to use those edgers but we just happened to have them--and just enough!--to show our neighbor our intention. She was sure we were going to leave it and let it erode into her lawn. Why would we want to do that, for Pete's sake? But there was just no talking to her. We were joking with the nurseryman from whom we purchased our plants that, this being Halloween, it DID have a bit of a coffin shape, and we could plant flowers like companies and colleges do so her name would be displayed. Like purple pansies on a field of white ones. ;-) After Once we planted the Miss Lemon Abelia. We were going to add sod at the bottom but figure that next Spring the bermuda grass will fill in. And we are NOT letting her vines take over again. Had to go with 1 gallon abelias because of cable lines and the stumps of the junipers. They should spread out well next Spring and Summer....See MoreNHBabs z4b-5a NH
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