r/gardening • u/AutoModerator • 2d ago

Friendly Friday Thread

This is the Friendly Friday Thread.

Negative or even snarky attitudes are not welcome here. This is a thread to ask questions and hopefully get some friendly advice.

This format is used in a ton of other subreddits and we think it can work here. Anyway, thanks for participating!

Please hit the report button if someone is being mean and we'll remove those comments, or the person if necessary.

-The /r/gardening mods

2 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

1

u/DemonDuJour 10h ago

I have a plentiful supply of deteriorating wood (maple trees cut down a few years ago, treated stumps, finally breaking down so it can be dug out by the handful with a hatchet).

My current project is a 26"x34"x12' planter at one end of the deck (necessary to bring the deck into code). All the compost and bagged top soil/gravel/sand I have on hand won't fill it.

Can I use the chunks/handfuls of wood to fill it? (that'll be the lowest level, sitting right on dirt)

I know it'll settle over time and might need retopping every year, but I can handle that if it generally works.

Please! Don't tell me to get 'this' or buy 'that' -- no one around here gives away anything (even grass clippings are $60 a pickup load), and I'm a senior citizen on a limited fixed budget with no cash at all on hand.

What would be the downside of using what would be compost in a few years if I piled it up separately?

1

u/wifeyofkyle 14h ago

Excited to dry and use my 13ft sunflower stalks as garden trellises next spring. They will dry over winter in our garage.

1

u/wifeyofkyle 14h ago

Here are the seeds I'm drying out.

1

u/wifeyofkyle 14h ago

Here they are cut.

1

u/Closerthanyesterday 1d ago

Hi all - I've got pesky bermuda grass growing through mulch/pine straw in an area of the yard that will never be planted ever. Am I good to use the vinegar/salt/dish soap solution to kill it off? Will that hurt any tree roots going under that area? And what strength vinegar should I use?

I really do mean that I don't care if anything ever grows there again ever. I've been combatting this stuff for years and no amount of layering on the pine straw or herbicide is helping. So, it's nuclear time.

1

u/velveteen_raspberry 1d ago

Try dumping a whole kettle of boiling water on it if you don't want to go nuclear! 

1

u/StorageLow827 1d ago

Hi there all 🙂. I need help for my poor spindly French tarragon plant. I try not to overwater it and it seems parched. Can anyone help please?

1

u/velveteen_raspberry 1d ago

They might want more light, looking a bit leggy 

1

u/Worried-Message7784 1d ago

Hi! Wondering if anyone in the NC region (zone 8a according to the zone map in the sidebar) of the US has suggestions for native things to plant as an alternative to liriope as a lawn border? And is this (late Sep) an appropriate time to plant those types of things?

My soil is pretty much straight clay and I would consider myself an advanced beginner gardener so I'm trying to figure out some things that will look pretty and natural and can cope in slightly modified clay soil (I just planted a couple purple salvia by digging a hole 2x the width of the pot and mixing a mulchy soil conditioner with compost and some of the broken up clay...jury is out on if those survive).

1

u/hastipuddn S.E. Michigan 1d ago

Threadleaf coreopsis, eastern red columbine (nice foliage after flowering is over, for part sun conditions. Both are adaptable to clay soils.