A Seed Saver's Garden

[flowerbug]

cut them off at table height and put a top on them for tea times or potting stands (or most likley place to put things down that i'll rarely sit on or use otherwise). eventually they'll rot. i'm mostly ok with also just cutting them as close to the ground as possible and then putting some dirt over them and then putting a shallow rooted ground cover on it. fungi will eventually will take care of it and give you perhaps some unusual mushroom families coming up in fairy rings or lines following the decaying roots.

 

[ducks4you]

LOTS of good ideas!

 

[heirloomgal]

I wish I could leave them as is, but given that they are in my front yard and each cluster has probably 8 or 9 trees in it, they're too unsightly (and big) to remain. And because I've longed to eliminate those trees for so many years, it's almost celebratory that I can convert all that wasted space taken up by the trees into lawnscape. I'd like to combine the task of removing the stumps & raised stump pads with re-leveling, tilling, then reseeding the entire front lawn. I've kept the dandelions out, but without watering and fertilizing the grass gets infiltrated with crud plants. It's a dream to have that expanse of pristine, grass-only verdant lawn.

 

[Zeedman]

I'd like to combine the task of removing the stumps & raised stump pads with re-leveling, tilling, then reseeding the entire front lawn. I've kept the dandelions out, but without watering and fertilizing the grass gets infiltrated with crud plants. It's a dream to have that expanse of pristine, grass-only verdant lawn.

C'mon, you know you really just want to plant more beans there.

 

[heirloomgal]

C'mon, you know you really just want to plant more beans there.

Busted.

 

[heirloomgal]

Did all the corn cobs tonight, and, my hands don't hurt! DD saw my plight and jumped in to help. There wasn't much more than 50 or 60 plants put in if I recall that right, but it took time to get em all done. I think this may be the highest yielding corn so far. Which would surprise me since I was lackadaisical with watering, and never did get to giving them any chicken manure. So I'm pretty happy about my harvest, 3 large pickle jars + 5 medium sized jars of seeds altogether. Variety was 'Yukon Supreme'. I did take notice though that a small number of cobs had a slight bit of bug damage here and there, which was a surprise. Not seen that before. Probably popcorns are tougher and less attractive to bugs, which has been much of what I've grown. Anyway, counting my corn blessings.

 

[flowerbug]

C'mon, you know you really just want to plant more beans there.

that's a given...

 

[flowerbug]

I wish I could leave them as is, but given that they are in my front yard and each cluster has probably 8 or 9 trees in it, they're too unsightly (and big) to remain. And because I've longed to eliminate those trees for so many years, it's almost celebratory that I can convert all that wasted space taken up by the trees into lawnscape. I'd like to combine the task of removing the stumps & raised stump pads with re-leveling, tilling, then reseeding the entire front lawn. I've kept the dandelions out, but without watering and fertilizing the grass gets infiltrated with crud plants. It's a dream to have that expanse of pristine, grass-only verdant lawn.

i will say this, if you can get away with planting creeping thyme or other thymes instead you can head off a ton of weeding from all the grasses and other weeds that will invade all of your other gardens. it will need some weeding but it is much less than what the lawn areas spread into all the neighboring gardens... once established it is about 1/10th of the work even compared to mowing. bare dirt is an invitation to weed seeds popping up, i do have to spend a lot more time on those areas than the thyme areas.

oh, but i think you are allergic to bees so perhaps that isn't such a great idea... sorry... but i'll leave this for others who might end up in a similar spot...

 

[heirloomgal]

i will say this, if you can get away with planting creeping thyme or other thymes instead you can head off a ton of weeding from all the grasses and other weeds that will invade all of your other gardens. it will need some weeding but it is much less than what the lawn areas spread into all the neighboring gardens... once established it is about 1/10th of the work even compared to mowing. bare dirt is an invitation to weed seeds popping up, i do have to spend a lot more time on those areas than the thyme areas.

oh, but i think you are allergic to bees so perhaps that isn't such a great idea... sorry... but i'll leave this for others who might end up in a similar spot...

Not me, my dog. Can't handle the venom, gives him grand mal seizures. Creeping thyme is very pretty for sure, but don't want anything attractive to bees.

 

[heirloomgal]

I'm feeling increasingly grumpy about this postal strike. At least the most affected people, the seniors who rely solely on paper mail, will be getting their pension checks delivered by courier. A small highlight. Narrowly happened too as Purolator jumped to boycott Crown mail in solidarity. Ugh.