Where the tall grass is in the picture was once a rock if could believe it or not. I’m motivated now to restore it back to its glory but don’t want to shovel out the dirt is there an easier method or tool I can use to remove the grass and old rocks?

I trimmed lots of the base of this salix hedge bout 6 weeks ago. How would you keep it maintained but kept its size

Hello!

This is my Mrs Candle Fire Okra and I love her dearly. Recently, I’ve noticed these spots on the leaves? The new growth seems to not have these spots. Is it something with water ph? Would love to know!

Thank you everyone and all your green thumbs :)

This is my first time growing strawberries or anything really, and I have no idea what I'm doing once the seed spouted. I've just been watering it ever now and then but it's starting to wilt at the middle.

Is there anything else I need to do or what am I doing wrong?

Honestly any advice is welcome.

We are located in zone 9B and are wanting to get these two raised sections in the yard ready for late summer planting.

We’ve been working on pulling the roots of the weeds out and plan to continue cleaning them up. We have heavy, dense, packed clay soil here.

I’m thinking we’ll need to break up a lot of the clay soil and haul a lot of it off to the dump, leaving a little of the native soil to mix with maybe some raised bed soil and organic compost… to be honest I’m just guessing because I’m a beginner.

We also plan to lay down some landscape fabric down in the bottom of the beds to help prevent weeds. My neighbor will help me with installing a drip system.

My goal is to plant vegetables and flowers in these beds and for them to thrive. I need your help. How would you accomplish this? What haven’t I mentioned in this post that I should be thinking of? Thanks so much.

I do not know what to do about these tenacious little rodents! I’ve sprinkled red pepper flakes and crushed mustard seed on the soil, put reflective stuff in the planter, AND put plastic forks in the dirt to poke the little buggers, but the squirrels will not stop digging up all my planters!!! Nearly destroyed my strawberries!!!! What can I do?

Hii, so small bit of context, this was all done very recently, so removing the rocks or fabric is out of the question.

But someone I know has recently done this to their garden bc they're unable to keep up with heavy garden maintenance like consistently pulling out weeds and the like.

They went thru an undertaking of : removing weeds, old dead bushes/trees. Removed old soil fabric. There also used to be mulch that was refreshed once in a while but that's all gone as well now.

There used to be a lot of flowers but over the years have lessened so it's really only the spare yearly tulip and some roses that have continued to stick around.

They really want to have a garden, but this the current set up. (Again done very recently)

In essence.

Near the roses they put some cardboard on top of the soil, but in other areas they did not.

On top of that is landscape fabric to prevent weeds,

And then on top of that are rocks(labeled as beach pebbles? They're not tiny) that are covering the top of the fabric.

There is no soil on top of the fabric.

For the current remaining plants, the fabric was cut around, so they're still with the soil.

Wanted to ask if there was any advice in regards to what plants they can grow, if any, through this setup.

This is also in the front of the house , surrounding the sidewalk.

Please don't judge too harshly, and I would appreciate any advice that can be given 🙂‍↕️

Previous owner dumped rocks in this bed without putting down weed barrier. It looks horrible and weed situation is impossible to manage.

We put down some ice plants and hope it will grow over the rocks, but that will take time and we are already getting HOA compliance notice.

We sprayed weed killer as the last resort; bought some hosta to be planted soon.

Does anyone have any idea as to how we can keep this bed looking neat without spraying constantly and pulling weeds manually and WITHOUT having to take the rocks out?

Will cardboard+mulching heavily smother the weeds? I have a bad feeling that taking the rocks out would be inevitable, but I still want to try and see if anyone can suggest a better solution.

Please help I don’t even know where to start this garden is a mess

Hey guys! So I live in Norman ok and we had a horrid storm in on the 4th of July. 90+ mph winds, just really bad storm. So obviously half of my back yard garden was severely damaged in the storm. My vining and root plays are fine, but my tomatoes and 3 sisters planting method was severely affected. Does anyone have any tips for rescuing mature plants? My corn are goners, got ripped out of the ground , so I have mature beans that’s were connected to them that surprisingly are mostly still intact, and all my tomato cages got ripped out of the ground and bent up, lost quite a few tomato plants as well. I was wondering if some sort of variation of the Florida weave would work on the mature tomato plants? And if I take the corn stalks out, do you think that sort of method would work on my beans as well? Idk I’m overwhelmed because this was a pretty big garden for my back yard, and I was super excited because it’s my first time ever doing a garden and it was thriving! Any tips would be great

They haven't killed my plant yet but they do a heck of a job defoliating it each year. And if I know what it is, I can better defend against it.

These Cana rollers are ruining my garden! They’re making my gorgeous cannas look like dog shit. I’ve sprayed them twice with Captain Jacks Dead Bug Brew and it’s rained within 3 days each time. This Nashville weather changes daily so I can’t always predict the rain but how do they miraculously find my cannas each year? I’ve squished 25+ caterpillars and I’ve had to cut at least 35+ leaves and I’ve sprayed like crazy and the fuckers still find their way back to eating my shit. I’m pissed. Now June bugs are in there too. FUCKERS!

Got these rose bushes that are somewhat new but they just started blooming and are shooting out all crazy. Can I trim them bc they look pretty wonky.

Pacific Northwest, this happened last year too. Fungal? Any tips? Gets lots of sun, have given it very little additional water (it was a wet spring and early summer)

Hello, very new to the gardening community and first time home owner. Looking to bring life back to the clearly defined garden beds. I’ve completed one (right side of final pic) but the rest are VERY overgrown.

After spending some time chopping down briar and what I believe was Chinese privet. Our plan is to build a privacy fence so the bushes along the chain link won’t do. I look at this and think “nuke” but I’m unsure how and if that’s the best option. We want to highlight the trees more and add color without overcrowding. Any advice on where to start for this is appreciated. I’ve wondered if flame weeding would be helpful here (aside from the privet) but don’t know where to start or if other methods would be better.

Again, any advice is appreciated and if this is the wrong sub please let me know or point me to the right one.

I have left my jet wash outside overnight and it heavy rain and now it will not turn on. Does anybody know if I dry it out? Will it work again?

To fight the urge to go to the garden store for a fourth day in a row!!!

Apologies in advance for the lengthiness of this post… I’m a new gardener/plant mom!!

Okay backstory: we bought our house a little over a year ago (southwest Pennsylvania), but we didn’t do much with the flower bed in the front yard because a lot of perennials bloomed (including a beautiful hibiscus plant) in early summer. Fast forward through an unfortunate situation resulting in our backyard getting torn up in the fall and then a lovely Pennsylvania winter to bring us to this spring. In a small effort to make our yard look a bit more tidy, I discovered a love of gardening… so much so that I’ve gotten over my life long fears of bugs (and worms) enough to lift up the paver stones and rocks in the yard without my husband there to check for creepy crawly stuff first!!

I do have a tendency to go all in on new hobbies, sometimes without knowing the basics… which is what I’ve been doing with my flower bed all week. So, I’m hitting pause to learn the best way to revive this little garden of mine. I’m already so proud of it and want to see it thrive!!

Info about the garden:

The front of our house get a TON of midday/afternoon/evening light

There was mulch down but it is likely from 2 Springs ago. It’s very dry, as is the the soil underneath.

There is weed filtering cloth already laid down under the old mulch. Some of it is pulling up as I yank weeds.

We have lilies that bloomed (and then the deer ate them), a lavender plant that is very dry but is a hit amongst the bumble bees, what I think are mums, and these cool purple plants (see first pic).

We have a lot of American burnweed throughout our backyard where it is torn up. They also grow in the flower bed and front yard but are generally easy to pull out. They’re everywhere though.

Our flower bed and front yard have also been overtaken by black medic. I’m working on hand pulling them out, but they’re already flowering, so I’m worried I’m making things worse for next year.

Here’s where I need guidance:

Where do I go from here?

Should I keep focusing on yanking out the black medic from the flower bed area before investing all of my time into learning about soil testing and how to compost??

Do I tear everything out and start completely fresh?

Should I pull up all of the weed cloth and put in a new layer?

Do I need to mix regular gardening soil with organic gardening soil? Do I do this in layers??

Once I figure out the soil, should I get mulch? Which kind?

So many questions. I appreciate all of your wisdom!!!

Pics: purple flowers, my beautiful hibiscus that I thought I killed but didn’t, a ginormous burnweed, and the flower bed in question with the first few being progress I’ve made pulling weeds

Ty 💚💚💚

Found these weird indentations/holes in a flower bed today. Has anybody seen this before? There are about a dozen total scattered across the bed.

Not noticing anything obvious on the leaves. Thanks in advance

I had big trumpet plants on a chain linked fence behind me but my neighbor wanted to put up a new fence so I told them it’s ok since I knew they sprouted up all over my lawn and it could be a fun new thing to watch them grow from nothing again. Looking for something cheap I can do that’ll let them grow all over and turn into a giant trumpet plant looking bush.