Landscaping Dilemmas = to remove or not to remove??
Kim
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Comments (1)CCA-treated lumber is considered a hazardous waste. You cannot burn it and it should be recycled through appropriate channels. Your local landfill or solid waste disposal service would be the party to contact or any party that deals with recyclables for your municipality. Here, this type of lumber is only accepted by the household hazardous waste authority....See MoreLandscaping ideas help! All the trees were removed.
Comments (10)New windows can help with noise if they are chosen with that in mind. Plants can provide visual buffer but do not buffer sound, even with density. I hear traffic despite being more than a half mile through dense woodland in either direction from highways. The only thing that will buffer road sound is something solid like a wall or solid fence, neither of which would look particularly appropriate in your setting. If you want the visual barrier to be year round it will need to be either an untrimmed fountain shaped and densely twiggy plant like forsythia or ninebark, or else evergreens like Rhododendrons or shrub sized conifers. Depending on the look you want, you can use a mix of several types of plants for a less formal look, or all the same kind for a more formal look. Look at large shrubs as opposed to trees because of the power lines. Good on you for thinking of that issue as many folks don’t. I don’t know what you mean by a boulder garden, but generally in the eastern half of the US, rocks are difficult to keep weeded. They tend to do better in areas that are more arid. Considering that grass appears to grow well in your area, it isn’t a choice I would be likely to make. Can you provide a photo of what you were considering? While growing zone is one helpful piece of info in making plant suggestions, eneral location is as well (nearest big city and state). For instance, there are parts of MA, WA, VA and NM that are in zone 7, but due to different climate, moisture, and soils, different plants will grow well. Is it full sun without the trees or are there some along the edges that aren’t visible in the photo?...See Morelandscape HELP kill grass with tarp or remove it with a edging shovel?
Comments (9)One of the worst mistakes I made when I first started gardening was to put down landscaping fabric in the front of our flower beds, and my husband put down some sort of tarp around the blueberry bushes in the back. BIG MISTAKE. It will look great at first as, of course, you will see no weeds. After a while though, the weeds will just grow right over the landscape fabric and tarp. Now, you will have to destroy not only the weeds, but the landscape fabric/tarp too. It makes planting and digging a pain later. I am slowly but surely eliminating the landscape fabric every time I plant something else. The tarp just got pulled up. It's better to place something down that will disintegrate into the soil overtime. Cardboard or Newspaper works great. Just water the Newspaper or cardboard, place it where you want it, and proceed. You won't have a headache a year later than if you put landscape fabric or plastic down....See MoreNeed help removing grass from landscape bed
Comments (15)Well, it's not as entirely hopeless as all this sounds! If you want a planting around the tree I'd make the area larger, dig out all the grass and roots as you can, dig in some compost to improve the soil. plant it, give it a thick cover of mulch, and when Bermuda grass pops up give it a small spray of Ortho Grass b Gone. I don't like using "cides" of any kind, but since I have a mixed lawn of St. Augustine and Bermuda grass, which I didn't plant that way, but the Bermuda blows in, I have no choice. Grass b Gone doesn't harm broad leaved plants and kills Bermuda. It takes about a week for it to die, but die it does. I use G-b-G very sparingly, getting the nozzle close to the grass before spraying gently while holding my breath. After the bed is established I have very little problem with Bermuda infiltrating it. A brick, stone, or metal border and thick mulch helps keep it out....See Moremrykbee
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