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I love how people plant clover and such as a cover crop, we have it growing everywhere. Can't kill the darn stuff. That and alfalfa, which smells wonderful and looks gorgeous in full bloom.... Except for the part where I have almost 2-3 acres of it which is meant to be horse pasture. The benefit...

We need to do some landscaping of the front garden this year. Basically it's been just an empty patch with a picket fence, and a large limestone raised kitchen garden by the front door for the past year. It's north facing but gets quite a substantial amount of sun on a regular day due to us...

I tried the whole plot gardening, rows, etc. thang when we moved in. Who knew we were the centre of all weeds? lol. The plot garden has been discontinued and getting covered for the season until I can put more raised beds on it next year. I'm doing pea-gravel or cedar bark pathways through my...

I can't quite remember, but I think the picket for the front garden cost around $400-$500 total, its a big area though. I'm not quite finished it, we ran out of pickets in/around November and the mill had already closed for the winter. I was thinking something like this for the veggie garden...

I'm doing a picket fence around the raised beds, pretty basic... 4x4 posts at about 3ft high with pointed pickets. I've been considering painting it bright red for the longest time after seeing a Newfoundland & Labrador commercial where a man was painting a picket fence red. It looked...

You *can* use it on your flower gardens. The only composter that is okay to use for dog waste and meat is the cone type black ones. We have a doggy poop-poster in the garden. You can also get a hatch at Petsmart that you dig a hole, stick the hatch in, and start filling said hole with poo. You...

I'll get a photo today, because I can't see a collar at all... It looks to be coming out of the actual ground... My trees have buds on them, the nectarines in particular, they aren't huge yet but they are getting bigger and ready for May.

I saw a guy in flipflops and shorts today in Home Depot! :ep

The trees aren't very old, have been in the ground since the beginning of last summer. I'm not concerned about it being the same, and I don't even mind if it doesn't make it... I just don't want to hurt the tree.

I know that sounds funny, but I don't know what to call it. One of my Nectarines seems to have sprouted a little tree-lette at ground level. It's about a foot tall, and has some of its own little branches. I was wondering if I could prune it off, and stick it in some root starter junk. I'm not...

I've heard of people using them for potatoes...

Boggy, Raspberries and other brambles will send out and expand on their own to my knowledge. I know I had a friend who had 6ft of Raspberry bushes in the garden that produced enough fruit every year for 2 people to eat pretty much daily. I'm putting in about 20ft of raspberry bushes this year...

Pat suggested this to me when I was thinking of planting in a raised bed (still am! Just waiting for the funds to buy some canes), that you might consider digging down below the bottom of the bed into the native soil, planting your blackberry or raspberry, then putting in a good thick layer of...

The ladybugs are starting to move out of my house into the garden lol...

lol don't worry, I'm down a somewhat similar path. I threw in a couple bags (15kg) of half-composted horse manure this year into one of my raised beds and I'm starting to wonder whether that was a really great idea or a really stupid one haha, oh well live and learn!

I sure hope so! It's going to rain too... we call it Snain, Snow-Rain... For 2 weeks... Eep!

Told you I had daffodil bulbs poking their little heads out... lol....Although, I might cover them as we're expecting a bit of snow next week.

I just covered my two pea beds in plastic. I already have a polytunnel over the carrot bed. Its only supposed to be like a maximum of around 8cm, so not a lot... it'll melt off pretty quickly. Just annoying! I'll just throw some hot water bottles under the plastic the day of.

ME TOO! :D I used to go by Stephy Weasley when I was in highschool :cool: I'm 21 now, so I grew up with the characters!

Actually it's funny, my daffodil bulbs are starting to come up. I'm just going to put some poly tunnels over them.