Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / September 2006

We are about to grade a small vacant lot which we own (it's adjacent to a
small commercial building which we're renovating-- location is urban
America... New York City!).  The lot get's fantastic sunlight... nearly
all day long..... so we want to plant trees, shrubs, ...

Hi all I am a newbie or (newberry) and I hope I have posted correctly.
My question is this...I planted some ordinary bramble runners and fe
and watered them like they were my own children, this year the crop o
berries I got was amazing ....big tasty berries can anyone tell me i

I have them all over the garden; have moved them;   have taken "pups"
to plant elsewhere.  They seem to do well --for a while.  Then the
leaves get ragged-looking after the flower fades.  Is this normal?  Or
should the same plant bloom again later?

I have used a spreader pellet as a lawn feed and weed previously, but have
now acquired a 20 gallon tank and power sprayer for the garden tractor,
which should end my days walking a small spreader around 1.5 acres of lawn
for what seems like days...However, can anyone recommend a ...

A new allotmenter, I have planted a tayberry on my plot. The support i
pretty flimsy at present (plant was planted just last autumn), but th
tayberry clearly has plans for world domination. Was considerin
putting in sturdier fence-support-type posts, in metposts, but hav

On the tv gardening program 'Vasilis Garden' on Ch 31 (a community tv
channel here in Sydney), the host described how to make a snail
repellent spray.
He collected about 15 live snails, crushed them in a saucepan and added a

Danny got the inside front cover of the latest Awards Quarterly with several
pictures of Phrag besseae.
K Barrett

 My front yard landscaping project is becoming a nightmare, I am
wondering how should I proceed.
 The project is to overhaul the current front yard by building a new
retaining wall, re-do the irrigation and plant some bushes.

So - having brought 4 or 5 home, has anyone experience of sowing these, time
of germination, general preferences etc?  For those who haven't seen them,
they're extraordinarily large - one description has them as the bowl of a
small pipe!

My lawn has recovered remarkably well from the brown bare state it was in
some two or three months ago.  But there are  a lot of dead patches that
have not regrown,
I have grass seed but wonder whether late Sept early October is too late to

OK, this may sound awfully weird, but here it goes.
I have just "retired" a couple of feather pillows, and was wondering
how to dispose of them in the best possible way.  Then, it struck me
that, maybe, it would be OK to add the filling - a mix of small

Reading The Garden today we were surprised to see the comment that these
trees are slow growing and need training to reach the desired layered
effect.  We planted one when we got married in 2000 and reckon it has grown
between a foot and eighteen inches each year.  And without any ...

Denver will host Hoosier, Oak Hill, Water Orchids, and Piping Rock on
the weekend of Oct 14th. The show theme is "Falling for Orchids."  The
show is judged early Sat. am and opens for visitors at 10 in the
Denver Botanical Gardens.

I have a 10 +/- year old Homelite trimmer that's been very good.  The
throttle trigger broke a couple of weeks ago, and I'm having a very hard
time finiding a replacement.  Anybody have any ideas?  It's been a very good
one, and I'd hate to get rid of it for something so simple.

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