Help! My landscaping is non-existent/horrible/part dead/weed infested!
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Comments (62)It's a vast improvement over the shrub-engulfed house we first saw, merely by being cleaned up. One thing that jumps out to me as not enough, is the groundcover, which are few and far apart. The goal is usually to get groundcover to grow into a solid mass for the best look and so as not to need top dressing with mulch anymore and still have weed suppression. But I imagine you'll be doing some tweaking over the next year. As far as watering, it's hard for someone, by remote, to tell you if you've watered long enough. There are a lot of variables in how you might be doing it and with what equipment. If in doubt, dig down and see. It won't take you long to discover the right timing formula....See MoreComposting weed infested soil
Comments (6)I don't think I would use Preen. It may keep them from sprouting for a while but eventually it wears off. It would make a nice start for a new compost pile. If done correctly many, not all, of the weed seeds will be killed off from the heat. Personally I would not hesitate to use it. Mix some greens in with it and finish the compost process. Later when the compost is finished the larger sticks can be separated out. Weeds are a part of gardening. The better the soil the better the weeds. The good part is that the more compost the easier it is to pull the weeds. A good top coat of mulch will help prevent them. What ever weeds are growing under the tree now you can bet there is a huge seed bank of the same in the soil all around, including the flower beds. So by trying to kill the weed seeds in the compost you are really fighting a loosing battle. Years of constant maintenance will slow them down. Mulch will help prevent them from germinating....See MoreHorrible, horrible night
Comments (22)"I'm just incredulous that the police didn't think getting punched in the nose is not assault simply because the victim avoided a broken nose" YEP. I am actually more pissed about it, the more time that goes by. I don't really know what BM said to the police because they talked to me inside and she was out in the driveway. I know she was claiming I HIT HER first which pisses me off because I didn't hit her AT ALL. I covered my face with my hands and ran! LOL. Even SS saw everything that happened and was screaming/crying at his mom to not hurt me. TRUST ME, as loyal as he is to her, if I had hit her, he would have been yelling at ME. But according the cops--it's a "domestic issue" and they told me it's always he said/she said. It also made me angry because one of the cops (there were, like 6 or 7 of them) said "well, if she is so drunk, why'd you let her in the house?" UGH. I let her in and didn't call the police to avoid a SCENE like the one we had! Granted, in hindsight, I shouldn't have let her in--but she was sobbing at the backdoor and then SS SAW her. :( It all worked out really badly. I did the best I could under the circumstances. That one cop was kind of rude to me, I thought, but the others were all pretty nice. The last one to leave did tell me that I have 6 months to press charges. He didn't really say I should or shouldn't, but just said it was an option but that in domestic situations, it is hard to get anything to stick. I am angry the police were not more helpful to ME. MY house, MY driveway, MY yard--she's DRUNK, and I'm SOBER, taking care of two children. Let's see.....who is in the wrong here?...See MoreAdvice on getting dead grass/weeds out of rocks
Comments (7)Flame weeders are very effective, and low cost, low labor solutions for this kind of situation. Red Dragon makes a good one, available on Amazon and other places. kimmsr is right that you do need to be careful not to start unwanted fires, but in our dry environment, this is the tool of choice for eliminating dead or live weeds in rock. It takes only minutes to do a garden bed, and the weeder will leave a clean looking surface that can be touched up easily with the weeder again as needed. I've seen these devices used on acre size lots full of weeds to great effect. If you have a weeder, you won't need to buy herbicide, and weeder will pay for itself quickly. Probably the greatest benefit I see is the labor: it would take me hours to weed even a relatively small area by hand, and I would need to be doing it again soon. The amount of propane needed is quite small, and easily compensated by the hours of your time saved. As noted above, soil gets into the rocks over time, and you would need to move and clean the rocks to even start to keep more from growing in the area. However, even this huge effort would be defeated over time as new soil and debris comes onto the rocks. The weeder helps to eliminate that debris. Renais...See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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