Wpisy otagowane ‘Soil’

What is the best way to get rid of a garden full of weeds, before I plant flowers?

sobota, 8 Maj 2010
Cobra Kai Johnny Lawrence asked: I plan on beginning my gardening this weekend. My garden currently consist of a large patch of soil loaded with weeds. What is the best way to get rid of these weeds and make sure they don’t come back this summer? There is nothing planted in the [...]

What should I do to prepare my vegetable garden for planting?

sobota, 17 Kwiecień 2010
babybunny729 asked: I am new to this gardening thing and I want to have a vegetable garden so that we have vegetables and fruit from early summer through late fall. I know that each vegetable has it’s own PH requirements. How do I prep the soil for all the things I’m wanting to plant? Is [...]

How to turn an old garden into grass?

piątek, 2 Kwiecień 2010
j-diddy asked: I moved into a house with a huge garden in the back that I want covered up and replaced with grass. It is completely run over in weeds, and the soil is very hard and clay like. What is the best way to make it grass? Do I kill all the [...]

Can you grow a vegetable garden in ONLY compost?

środa, 24 Marzec 2010
Brandilynn S asked: I know that compost is generally added to the soil, and then tilled in, but would a garden grow in only compost? And would it grow well?

What types of flowers are able to grow indoors, year round?

niedziela, 21 Marzec 2010
angeldust asked: I want to decorate my home with real flowers that are able to be maintained indoors and will grow year round. Because we live in an apartment, I am not able to go outside and play with soil and such, but I really would like to get some flowers that I can keep [...]

How do I start a flower garden?

sobota, 1 Sierpień 2009
Lisa F asked: I live in NC and I’d like to start a small flower garden in front of my home. It’s in an area that gets sunlight periodically during the day. I believe there used to be flowers there because there’s a decorative brick border around the area but it’s overrun with weeds and [...]

Grass it taking over my flower bed, what can I do to get rid of it?

sobota, 1 Sierpień 2009
awaa2tm asked: Apparantly the home builder that I bought my house from did not put down some kind of weed or grass guard underneath the soil where my flowers and hedges are. Now grass is completelly taking over the bed. It looks terrible, I pull it often but it grows so fast I cant keep [...]

How can I get rid of flowers to plant vegetables?

poniedziałek, 6 Lipiec 2009
library girl asked: I have a flower garden approx 4′ x 20′. We have previously planted zinnias and other various flowers. We would like to plant vegetables…but every year the flowers come back. They don’t do great and look ugly. How can we get rid of them and enrich the soil [...]

will my garden grow where there used to be a pine tree?

poniedziałek, 6 Lipiec 2009
Alysha B asked: i recently moved into my house. in the backyard there was a stump tree. i decided to grow a garden around it. After digging up most of the soil my neighbor came by and said i would have trouble growing anything because that stump was a old pine tree. i [...]

I want to start a little garden?

czwartek, 2 Lipiec 2009
aBlackRoseForYou asked: I want to start a little garden, but heres the problem. I live in an apt. with a small pattio (ground floor)So i cant actually use their soil, I see it in my mind but know nothing of gardening, all house plants i have ever had have died very quickly and it didnt [...]