Posts by lightheart

Anyone have experience growing on their roofs? Looking for suggestions and ideas of making the roof actual bed(s) rather than doing container gardening. Weight of the growing medium, the slope, and just how deep of soil should I be...

Our garden is doing good, beans are coming out of our ears at this point, I'm sick of green beans at the moment. Beware if you walk past my house - you cannot pass unless you take a yellow squash! It's actually not that bad, but you know...

You can also... ...start your seeds in pots or flats then transplant the strongest healthiest plants into the garden at the proper spacing. ...make your own seed tape, internet search "make your own seed tape" for more...

Don't beat yourself up if you don't get them full this first growing season, you can dig the dirt that is already there, planting in it. You can work on making some compost this summer and plan to add enough dirt to fill up the beds at...

If he does decide to get bees, have him go to the doctor to get an epi-pen to keep around the house just in case. I would do an internet search to see if there are any bee keeper clubs/organizations around your area, local hands on...

We set out one of those yellow jacket traps a couple years back, it had a chemical lure in it and the bees would flock to it, get inside, get trapped and die. We set it up away from the house but over on the steep hill where noone walked...

I think "how it works" is that corn gluten inhibits root growth in broadleaf plants, the plant will germinate, but the root system will not develop properly so after water stress on the plant, the plant dies. Later the corn...

watermelon, it's considered a warm weather plant, check your packet and see how many days it says it takes to produce fruit and see if you have enough days until frost for the plant to do it. I don't know what your last frost date is,...

Quote: Originally Posted by May May They all look fine but their leaves are just really tiny. I keep waiting for them to grow larger . . . When you say the leaves are tiny... could it be that you have a...

Flame thrower! Actually they make a small torch that you can use to burn the weeds out, don't know how that would affect the concrete.