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Post by raphanus on Apr 8, 2022 7:04:24 GMT -5
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 8, 2022 14:26:49 GMT -5
How do you encourage the alligator to relocate? All your plants look great!
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Post by desertwoman on Apr 8, 2022 19:49:10 GMT -5
ha! a privacy fence is probably a good idea! raphanus, You definitely have a green thumb. Your plants are beautiful. |
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Post by raphanus on Apr 9, 2022 6:23:34 GMT -5
Well after a little over $2k, quite a few facefulls of concrete dust and coughing and no shortage of back pain, I have a massive privacy fence separating me from the crazy neighbor. I’m thinking about unique ways to add plants along the fence line. It’s deep shade, but I’m considering planting bamboo, fruit trees, or attaching a trellis and training vining crops like grapes or pumpkins or beans up the fence. Any ideas?
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Post by raphanus on Apr 9, 2022 6:24:46 GMT -5
How do you encourage the alligator to relocate? All your plants look great! Thanks! I like alligators, I don’t encourage them to leave, I just let them do their thing |
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 9, 2022 6:55:42 GMT -5
raphanus, Is that deep shade constant? No sunlight at all during the day? Hostas would be a good idea, but you can't eat them. (As my dad would say).
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Post by raphanus on Apr 9, 2022 7:20:57 GMT -5
Mumsey, The privacy fence is on the north northwest side of my house and there are two large sheds next to it and a large plaza with buildings behind it, so the only sliver of sunlight it gets is in the evenings as the sun sets. Definitely hoping for something edible.
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Post by emmsmommy on Apr 9, 2022 7:44:02 GMT -5
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Post by reuben on Apr 9, 2022 7:52:53 GMT -5
I’m thinking about unique ways to add plants along the fence line. It’s deep shade, but I’m considering planting bamboo, fruit trees, or attaching a trellis and training vining crops like grapes or pumpkins or beans up the fence. Any ideas? Bamboo will spread everywhere, taking over the world, and it's almost possible to get rid of. Strongly suggest something else. |
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 9, 2022 9:31:59 GMT -5
raphanus, Well, there ya go! Hostas ARE edible!!! I've got 60 but never considered eating them.
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Post by reuben on Apr 9, 2022 11:06:34 GMT -5
Deer and groundhogs will eat them, too.
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Post by emmsmommy on Apr 9, 2022 15:19:43 GMT -5
Deer and groundhogs will eat them, too. Yes and the deer seem to prefer the fancier varieties here. Or maybe that's because I have more of the fancier ones near the house. |
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Post by Wheelgarden on Apr 9, 2022 15:58:06 GMT -5
reuben is right. Beware the bamboo, there be dragons. Spreads like wildfire with a mat of thick, hard roots. Took me years and heavy equipment to eliminate it.
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Post by raphanus on Apr 11, 2022 10:59:33 GMT -5
About a month ago, I partitioned off half of the chicken run area and planted wheat, barley, rye, two types of clover, oats, Austrian winter peas, english sweet peas, arugula, mustard, vetch, and some other stuff and allowed all that to grow up under the grapevine for a month or so. Yesterday I finally opened the area and let the chickens forage. They managed to destroy a months worth of growth in about an hour. They loved it. I filmed it. Unfortunately, the dominant hen decided she wanted to eat some small bird before going for the forage. The first few minutes of the video is her eating some small wild bird, the remainder of the video is the hens foraging on their cover crops. youtu.be/pW3ysam1rLoI have an awful bamboo that I think is called Nandina or heavenly bamboo that has been here since the 1960s and is awful and I’ve destroyed my back trying to remove it many times to no avail. The roots are bright yellow inside and incredibly hard but also flexible so very difficult to cut with an axe. I’ll probably never get rid of it even if I rented an excavator. The new bamboo I bought is a black/purple bamboo that is quite pretty and will make for lovely tomato stakes. Speaking of invasives, I still haven’t dealt with the insane poison Ivy situation yet. |
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Post by raphanus on May 29, 2022 6:37:38 GMT -5
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