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Alternatives for cedar for garden beds
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Mar 12.
Garden beds over Pachysandra, poison ivy, and weeds?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Katrien Mar 18.
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Same here. I set the lettuces out into the cold frame, which cleared a lot of space, but yesterday I potted up many of the seedlings, and now the "bank" is full again. I'll be able to sow more veggies when I get the spinach and maybe some onions (th…
Thank you for the advice!
The idea of using a chemical frightens me, so I think we'll try to fight the Pachy by pulling and then sifting the soil. We pulled most of them a week ago and they seem pretty shallow rooted... We'll go through that patch…
Hi,
I started too, several weeks ago! This is my first time doing ANY kind of gardening, let alone from seeds, and the idea is to feed two families and the local soup kitchen and food pantry... still, I may have overestimated our amounts (you'll se…
While I don't know enough about Pachysandra to address its removal, I think that, if the poison ivy and other viney plants are more than a month or two old, they will have enough reserves in their roots to grow sideways and come up around the edges…
I have used the linseed oil treatment with good success.
Sounds like we can be optimistic about using pine, or douglas fir, as the case is. I read in Coleman's *Four Season Harvest* that there is a product called Donnos that does a good job. I checked it out and it's basically linseed oil and some other o…
Hmm, that's a good idea Gina. My husband wants to use tanalised timber for my cold frames but I'm not happy with that idea. Linseed oil sounds like a good compromise to protect the wood.
We actually built our beds out of untreated pine due to the prohibitively expensive cost of redwood and cedar. We stained the outside for appearance's sake and then oiled both the outside and inside of the boxes with linseed oil (non-toxic). It's on…
This is my first time growing from seed (and growing from anything, really). Beginning was quite intimidating enough what with sowing calendars and cover depths, without having to worry about the equipment! So I bought some flats with trays and dome…
Hi Edson
What good fortune! Thank you for the offer but, well, you should see my seed stock... They weren't free but they are plenty. Though I may have something not so hale and healthy growing on my eggplant seeds (under lights int he basement) and…
This is a great challenge. As a total novice I just know I am going to grow too much food - just to see, try this and that, and to try out our land - and I know the soup kitchen and food pantries in my town need fresh produce. I also need all the ga…
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- About Me:
- I just started sowing seeds (under lights) for the first time for a first-time garden, which I would like to be four-season garden that will feed our household throughout the year (with root cellar and canning). I also want to grow food for our community: the soup kitchens and food pantries in our town are in need of fresh produce.
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- Allotment, Backyard
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