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Is it even trees that you are removing or just weeds?
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MasterBuilder posted:Is it even trees that you are removing or just weeds? I’m fairly sure it’s buckthorn. There are also mulberries but I’m not loving with those. I’ll take my chances with tree law since they’re growing between my privacy fence and the immediately adjacent neighbor’s chain link.
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What's the best way to get about 20cuft of soil for a raised bed, a big stack o' bags?
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Shifty Pony posted:What's the best way to get about 20cuft of soil for a raised bed, a big stack o' bags? You're not likely to get less than a yard delivered by any materials place (20 cu ft is about 3/4 yard) but it's a very shovelable amount. Anyone with a pickup truck or a trailer would be able to move that easily if you have a soil place nearby. Stack 'o bags is of course possible, but likely the most expensive way.
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get a yard delivered and put the rest in some pots or a yard low spot or w/e imo. stack o bags is likely the most annoying way
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Motronic posted:You're not likely to get less than a yard delivered by any materials place (20 cu ft is about 3/4 yard) but it's a very shovelable amount. Anyone with a pickup truck or a trailer would be able to move that easily if you have a soil place nearby. About half of the places around here will make deliveries under a yard, but after delivery fees it isn't much cheaper than buying it in bags if you're getting that little. May be worth it anyway to not have to lug it around.
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I was surprised buying mulch by the yard/scoop at a landscape supply was not much cheaper than buying bags. Considering the landscape supply was 40 minutes away and not open Sunday or Saturday PM, bags from Lowe's 10 minutes away works fine for me. If you're gonna get bags (and 20cu. ft is not that much really) get a couple bags of Black Kow or the mushroom compost to top whatever you get with. My Lowe's usually has something called 'composted organic humus' which is basically rotted pine bark with a little sand and manure and it's real cheap and makes a decent base if you mix in some peat moss and Black Kow. The peat moss and pine bark are both fairly acidic, so be generous with the lime your first year too.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:My Lowe's usually has something called 'composted organic humus' which is basically rotted pine bark with a little sand and manure and it's real cheap and makes a decent base if you mix in some peat moss and Black Kow. The peat moss and pine bark are both fairly acidic, so be generous with the lime your first year too.
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Tunicate posted:can you leave out the lime if you're growing blueberries?
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My son came in yesterday and said, "If you just sat down and told me where to plant, would you like to garden?" He did and I did. I have chronic health conditions. My son is the best. Now I have a bed full of flower seeds and a few simple veggies.
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Lol @ One Green World thinking a recently shipped plant is going to stop looking like poo poo, let alone show new growth in ten days.
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That Old Ganon posted:Lol @ One Green World thinking a recently shipped plant is going to stop looking like poo poo, let alone show new growth in ten days. It has happened for me once or twice
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Learned today that OGW's guarantee is only ten (10) days. I bought a couple honeyberry bushes to replace the slew of dead blueberry bushes, and the Blue Hokkaido (left) is looking like poo poo compared to the Keiko (right) I bought with it. They were both in the same box.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:My son came in yesterday and said, "If you just sat down and told me where to plant, would you like to garden?" 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:My son came in yesterday and said, "If you just sat down and told me where to plant, would you like to garden?" This is really sweet
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got absolutely ravaged by slugs last year. These pricks were everywhere and all the beer traps in the world barely dented them. Did my research and every time I found a wolf spider in my yard (or house  ) I transplanted it to the garden.NO SLUGS THIS YEAR. Biological warfare
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Szechwan posted:got absolutely ravaged by slugs last year. These pricks were everywhere and all the beer traps in the world barely dented them. Have you tried Sluggo, because the house spiders you’re moving will probably just die outside, but the ones in the yard will eat well hopefully. Sluggo is Iron Phosphate and is something naturally occurring in your soil and is approved for organic gardening. It gets very wet here, so I use it about once a year on a wet day in the veggie beds and I’m good for the season.
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Sluggo is lit
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squirrels ate my dads tomatoes. recommendations to keep them away?
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samcarsten posted:squirrels ate my dads tomatoes. recommendations to keep them away? you ever watch A Christmas Story?
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Ok Comboomer posted:you ever watch A Christmas Story? That's right, release the hounds
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I think Caddyshack is the more appropriate varmint parable
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Conibear traps, a large dog, not putting out bird food, and an air rifle holds them at bay for me
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We have deer, chipmunks, squirrels and birds that eat practically every vegetable we grow outside of hot peppers (and the birds even eat some of those), so we went the nuclear route of paying someone to build a massive cage over our main vegetable bed. So far it has kept everything out, but it's probably only a matter of time until a chipmunk figures out how to burrow in there.
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Speaking of annoying critters, we have a rabbit that keeps digging holes in our front yard. I filled one and put some seed over it, so it dug a new one. Filled that one, and it dug up the original again. Any tips for chasing it away? Does stuff like this repellent actually work?
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Jhet posted:Have you tried Sluggo, because the house spiders you’re moving will probably just die outside, but the ones in the yard will eat well hopefully. Sluggo is Iron Phosphate and is something naturally occurring in your soil and is approved for organic gardening. It gets very wet here, so I use it about once a year on a wet day in the veggie beds and I’m good for the season. I have, although I was admittedly hesitant to spread it around food plants
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Dr. Eldarion posted:Speaking of annoying critters, we have a rabbit that keeps digging holes in our front yard. I filled one and put some seed over it, so it dug a new one. Filled that one, and it dug up the original again. Any tips for chasing it away? Does stuff like this repellent actually work? you’re gonna have to catch him and move him, or kill him, or hope that somebody/something else kills him
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My experience with gardening this year has taught me that actually i hate rabbits. My yard has moles also but they haven’t been interested in the garden area. At my old house our neighborhood was filled with snakes and possums, nary a bunny to be found. It was great
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Bismack Billabongo posted:My experience with gardening this year has taught me that actually i hate rabbits. My yard has moles also but they haven’t been interested in the garden area. At my old house our neighborhood was filled with snakes and possums, nary a bunny to be found. It was great tall trees tall trees bring hawks hawks bring the cleansing
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We had rabbits at our old house and they are incredibly persistent, especially if they pick a spot as a burrow or warren. We even put hardware cloth around the bottom of the fence we had and one rabbit in particular just chewed through it all. Using blood meal as a soil amendment helps, spreading hair clippings around helps, but they'll basically get used to anything repellent pretty quickly. Edit: Ok Comboomer posted:tall trees Either a no cost relo or a dirt nap. We have several birds of prey in our woods and the squirrel (and cat) population is usually pretty brief. I don't think I've ever seen a rabbit out here.
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I put up a very ratchet cage made of chicken wire and used some stakes to bury the line. Rabbits have not gotten in since and the squirrel population in my new hood is pretty low. My volunteer squash has resulted in two mystery plants that are probably zucchini and some yellow squash, transplanted onto my fence line and doing ok. The single squash seedling that I kept in my actual garden has gotten enormous and I think is going to provide me with the banana squash I intended to grow in the first place, which is nice. Meanwhile my tomato plants have been doing pretty well, the grape one is indeterminate and sprawling out everywhere. Will post some pixxx later
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Yeah, hawks are probably better to have around than lynx and bobcats. Vvvvv top them or train horizontal, I guess? B33rChiller fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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What do I do once my indeterminate tomatoes are at the top of my trellis / netting? It's 8 ft tall right now...
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samcarsten posted:squirrels ate my dads tomatoes. recommendations to keep them away? Now that they know that there is a food source there they will keep coming back, and nothing short of completely eliminating them or completely eliminating their ability to get to the tomatoes will stop them. Basically you can either kill the squirrels or completely and throughly exclude them. There is no in-between. Of the two exclusion is the better long term solution and has the benefit of keeping other critters away, but it is a daunting project to pull off mid-season. You need to use chicken wire or hardware cloth (bird netting is useless because they will chew through it) and build a support structure to keep it off of the plants. Be sure to leave a way to easily get inside of it.
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Spikes32 posted:What do I do once my indeterminate tomatoes are at the top of my trellis / netting? It's 8 ft tall right now... I trained my kabocha squash up a six foot trellis last year and it grew up that, down the back, across the yard and up the trellis of the same size I had originally planted cucumbers on. Just poke the vines where you want them and if you don't want them cut them off
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I just run them laterally at that point. You end up with hilarious tomato panels until something breaks.
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I may have planted my tomatoes too close together / let them split (2 maybe 3) times too many.... 
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Spikes32 posted:I may have planted my tomatoes too close together / let them split (2 maybe 3) times too many.... They don't get upset when you prune them. I say that of course and i have another massive sprawling sun gold for the third straight year.
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Spikes32 posted:I may have planted my tomatoes too close together / let them split (2 maybe 3) times too many.... My wife loves to grow as many kinds of tomatoes as possible, so we plant at 15” spacing and prune extensively for airflow. The plants are probably slightly less vigorous overall but we still harvest dozens of pounds every year.
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