Gardening

[ticka1]

Well mine has been planted for over a week. I have 12 tomatoe plants, 6 jalpeno plants. a row of green beans, a row of okra and 1/2 row of cucumbers. Watered all of the plants with miracle grow. Now its going to be a chore to keep the nutgrass and weeds from growing and taking over the garden.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with nutgrass and weeds - without the backbreaking labor of bending over and pulling them out by hand????

[Coriolis]

Next time - place that black "plastic" over the soil first, make your holes and place the plants in. That plastic will allow for air and water to go in but not the weeks (or their seeds).

Jim

[stormy]

hey ticka send some tomatoes my way. and jim is right about the black plastic, sorry guess your going to have to pull them. Also, go to a nursery and ask them

[ticka1]

Working this weekend - then I get to figure out a way to weed my garden without hurting my back.

Does anyone ever use weedkiller in their garden? I bought some natural weedkiller to try.

[johnsam]

I use commercial grade round up...or the round up concentrate you can buy ...Walmart, etc. I dilute it to half strength :weight: , and use a 2 gallon/1 gallon sprayer so I can control the spray size, ...get only the weeds I want.

Works like a charm.. :alien2: ..doesn't hurt the regular palnts, and doesn't get on the food plants, so no harm is done.

Sam

[sparky]

soooo glad i waited for a few more weeks got close to freezing here last night and may reach it tonight. will be doing some flower planting and bush planting in the next two weeks if the rain can hold off. did manage to put out 45 lbs of grass seed before the riains started regularly here and it is sprouting.

[stormy]

very good sandy, you have more energy than me. I have done nothing in the yard. I need to in the next couple of weeks start planting some flowers in the front and weeding, yes they never stop. Happy planting everyone

[Coriolis]

I have given up "gardening" - I dont have a green thumb.....if fact is more like a brown thumb. The best I can do is to have my beautiful lawn (and it is green)!!!

[sparky]

I have given up "gardening" - I dont have a green thumb.....

jim i have no green thumb at all i would need the gardening book for dumbies but luckly i have jeff's mom she has 20 something acres in Blairesville Ga. and has done wonders with it so let's see how it turns out. If not will be buying all of P Allen Smith books think that is his name u know the dude on TWC gardeining bits.

[ticka1]

JohnSam - thanks for the post. I will try that.

I just spent 45 minutes hunched over on my knees pulling nutgrass out of 5 rows. Am I glad that's done with for this week. Going to get woodchips from the local recylcing center to see if that helps.

Came in took a HOT shower and let it massage on my back for 20 mins. Took my back meds to counter any spasms later tonight.

I'll take pics tomorrow and post them. My garden needs rain deseparetely.

[swmochic]

I haven't planted mine yet...it's still frosting here..a whole 31 this morning and a high of 50 today! I'll get around to it, but I do have 12 hanging tomatoe plants in the house for now? Send some warm weather my way!!

[stormy]

Chic that is pretty cold. Sure glad I don't live up north.