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• Yard Full of Gold

  My yard has been just full of the Finches. More

• Yard clean up?

  So things are dead or dying off in your yard. As you continue with fall clean up, remember our birds as well. A tidy yard is not a bird friendly yard. Keep some leafs in the flower beds and under the shrubs. Ground scratching birds like juncos and thrushes are… More

• Butterflies in my yard

  ... are a couple of Yellow Swallotails I found in my yard this week. Two at one time was a joy. Linda B More

• Yard Long Beans??

  ...at type of beans these are. I'm guessing they are yard long beans. My grandfather simply called them green beans. If they are indeed yard long beans..how do I know when they are ready for harvest? More

• article about front yard vegetable garden in Baltimore

  This article was just published in a Baltimore magazine called Urbanite: http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?issueID=74&sectionID=4&articleID=1263 Spaces might appear in that URL. Just get rid of them to see the post if you have problems. Here's a sample of the article. "Horticulturally, my formative years were schizophrenic. My father was a salesman for a… More

• Gardening above Buried cable in front yard

  ...vertical structure in an otherwise flat and plain lawnscape). But, only now I learnt that there is buried cable running smack under the mail post. I… More

• 70 yr. old woman arrested for dry lawn

  ... her dry lawn. Can they arrest you for an unkempt yard? Also notice this is being reported by the BBC, I don't watch much mainstream news due to not… More

• Front Yard Island

  This is the island in the front yard. I finished this in back in the middle of January. The 2 palms are Bismarckia nobilis or Bismarks, the 2 next to them are FL coonties, and the flowers are pink and purple New Guinea impatiens.:D More

• Yard novice from Wilmington

  ...ad to have happened upon this site! I never had a yard before last year and the yard I've got now apparently never had a gardener before. Spent a year hacking through the vines and weeds and digging up invasive roots and tubors...who knew gardening could be… More

• Yard full of mysterious things...

  ...t bought a house! Someone was rather proud of the yard at one point, but it has become a jungle. I have more mysterious plants, but I forgot to take pictures. One of them is a tuber or rhizome (I always get them mixed up) and the leaves grow… More

• duck nest in my yard

  i was out in the yard with my 2yo, and i walked past this little patch of pachysandra and a mama duck flew out at me. i went and looked at the spot where she had been, and she has a nest in our yard with at least 6 eggs.… More

• Grapevines attacking my yard!

  ...de of the fence. Unfortunately, they grow into my yard and wrap themselves all over my perennials! I have cut them back right on the fence line numerous times, but they grow fast! Does anyone have a good solution to this issue?… More

• Starting to get big color in the yard!

  ...yone else's stuff in town blooms first before our yard! Well, I finally got my lilies, and the Chinese forget-me-nots. More

• safety of grass clippings from fertilized yard

  ...is safe for me to put the grass clippings from my yard that has had weed & feed fertilizer applied to it into the compost pile if the intended use of the compost is for a vegetable garden? More

• Thyme in my yard

  ..., I discovered that two of the plants in my front yard are rosemary bushes. Are these safe to use as food? If so, how do I harvest/store? More

• Lots of things in bloom in my yard

  I have tons of things blooming in my yard. Kratz7 P.S. How do I make my photos smaller? More

• Top Soil question

  ...s of top soil to start up the garden in the front yard. The question I had before I put it down was that if I had a neutral pH top soil, will it eventually become the same pH as the ground underneath it?… More

• what's in your yard.

  ...r, what new and different birds are visiting your yard theses days? Though they are around all year long, nuthatches and titmouse are showing up. Bluejay are coming by in numbers now. Ron Sign up for your FR*EE newsletter at: http://www.backyardbirdingtips.com/ More

• Lawn weed, purple flower, Identification?

  ...ut right now it is completely overrunning my back yard. I have a rather clay-ey soil. Usually either too wet or… More

• Crabgrass In Lawn

  ...d to this house a little over 2 years ago and the yard was in horrible shape.... 98% weeds, only 2 badly neglected flowerbeds and almost no grass at all! Starting with our very first summer here in '04, we've been working hard at getting rid of the weeds… More

• About that MOSS in my lawn

  So, yeah, I've got a LOT of moss out in the back yard. And it's taking it's toll on my grass. I bought the moss-out stuff finally, and the directions say to remove (by hand) as much moss as you can with a thatcher. Hmm, okay... So I'm doing that… More

• Newbie...Help me with this lawn!!!!

  Hi, I'm a newbie here. I'm not much into lawn care and I don't really know all the "do's and don'ts". Here is my deal. We built a new home in 2000 and I have replanted the lawn 3 times. The last time was last fall. I planted fescue which… More

• JoyCreek Lawn Renovating

  I have a real mess in my back yard (zone 7). Poor soil, large old grown trees that surround the property, and a beautiful garden surrounding an area that should be grass but is instead a combination of sick looking grass, weeds and mud. I'm seriously considering covering the whole… More

• knats in yard

  Here is a website that describes them very well. http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef632.htm If your black flies bite we have those too but not as bad as the gnats. :eek: Yes black flies take a little chunk out of you. We get them early in spring before mosquitos. All you have to do… More

• how do I plant a new lawn from scratch?

  My lawn needs to be replaced. It hasn't been maintained really and hasn't been ariated/tilled in like 20 years.. What I intend to do is start from scratch.. I don't really know anything about lawn care/maintance - other then how to mow it :).. anyways, from what I know I… More

• My back yard before and now

  ...ed to share these before and now photos of my backyard. We have a unique back yard that came with a huge boulder. Here's a before few pictures.. My dream garden is one with native flowers, trees, paths, not alot of grass and water like a pond or… More

• Potting soil what to do with the used soil?

  ... my perennials as needed with Miracle Gro potting soil and use the same for annuals. So, I've been dumping the "used" soil in one large pile, and now I have a wheelbarrow full of dirt! :confused: haha! My question is - what should I do with all… More

• filling up a big hole in the yard

  I had a pond in the yard..in the ground. My ex husband was going to reline it and he moved all the fish to a kiddie pool. We divorced before the hole was filled. I am happy with the fish and plants in the pool, but the hole was not… More

• More fungi in my yard to ID

  ...lping to decompost all the "untreated" mulch into soil. Nice colony of Bird's Nest! The black structure in the cup are the spore cases. When it rains the raindrops hit the spore case… More

• "Rain Gardens on Clay Soil Sites"

  Just read about Rain Gardens ("Bioretention Pond"). Didn't know where to post it (mods can move it, if it doesn't belong here. :D ;) ). Thought some of you might want to know about rain gardens also. http://www.for-wild.org/download/rainclay/rainclay.html With changing federal laws governing water quality, many municipalities are enacting storm… More

• Soil Sample Now?

  ... 1/2 year old horse barn compost pile, a 10 cubic yard load of year old wood chips(half rotten) and that roll of moldy hay. I layered it over the area, Tilled the area both ways.… More

• Clay Soil Help

  ...her than bringing in a bobcat and 100 yards of topsoil does anyone have any ideas???:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: More

• acidic soil

  ...bought a house with a huge pecan tree in the back yard and a smaller one in front. I've heard the leaves shed tannic acid into the soil and it's difficult to get anything to grow around the trees. DOes anybody have any info they could share about… More

• Lawn Hunting

  ...! Often, I find my stuff has seeded over into the yard. I find a lot of pinks that way. My daisy collection was built out of the lawn. Many wildflowers find… More

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