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start over?
Greetings -- This rainy spring has brought out all sorts of
stuff in my yard, and I'm feeling really overwhelmed. It seems like it would just be easier to till up the whole yard and start over. I've got several volunteer lantana, sunflowers, chili pequins, but they're all coming up in not-so-great locations, and I've had bad luck transplanting these. My yard looks like exactly what it is -- a regularly neglected patch of weeds -- but I'd like it to look a little more tended. Any easy ways to accomplish this without starting from scratch? Thx -- M9 |
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start over?
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 15:41:19 -0500, "minerva nine"
opined: Greetings -- This rainy spring has brought out all sorts of stuff in my yard, and I'm feeling really overwhelmed. It seems like it would just be easier to till up the whole yard and start over. I've got several volunteer lantana, sunflowers, chili pequins, but they're all coming up in not-so-great locations, and I've had bad luck transplanting these. My yard looks like exactly what it is -- a regularly neglected patch of weeds -- but I'd like it to look a little more tended. Any easy ways to accomplish this without starting from scratch? Thx -- M9 Well, I have a prairie garden in the back of my property. Right now it is about 4 feet tall in some spots, taller in others. What I am going to do is go back there on the next cloudy day and cut all the early blooming perennial native plants back. I will then trim and dig out some of the grasses. Eastern gamma grass is very prolific and though it is a wonderful xeric plant, it must go. Then when I have all of that done, I will take stock in what's left to do. Do some weeding and collect seeds from spent larkspur and other plants like it. It makes life easier to have an area where my brush pile is. I can haul all the larger trimmings over to that, and I have a large compost hill for softer material. It easily takes 4 or 5 years in a garden before it looks like a garden meant to be. Do small sections. Right now transplanting anything is almost certain death to the plant. Do more of that work in the fall. Right now, make lists of plants that you can identify and try to draw a little informal map of what you have, how large it is, etc... In the fall, through the winter you can plan and do the work when it is cooler. Need a good, cheap, knowledge expanding present for a friend? http://www.animaux.net/stern/present.html |
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