Garden & Landscape - July 2007

I live in zone 7 in Or and have raised dahlias for years, but it never hurts to ask what they like, especially since I have them with weedcloth around them, how much water do they need ? I hear they are from mexico originally so they must like the heat and little water ? Our Or coast grows them huge so ???

2007-07-08 14:46:04 · 4 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5

I took out my old carpet and decided to use it in my back yard, fenced area, because my flower beds are huge and very lush and love to grow weeds. The carpet seems to work so well especially between my dahlias and roses etc.to keep the weeds down but lets the water in. Are there bad things it might do to my plants. I am going to maybe cover it with bark if that sounds good ???? ideas from those who know not who guess ??

2007-07-08 14:44:16 · 5 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5

If not, How can you keep it fresh to keep it sweet.

2007-07-08 14:10:32 · 8 answers · asked by cryptologist3 1

2007-07-08 14:06:47 · 4 answers · asked by william3290@sbcglobal.net 1

I have two apple trees in my back yard that I believe are red and yellow (or golden) delicious variety. They both have these spots on their leaves that are leaving them looking very sickly. There was a late freeze this year that caught them while they were blooming but I have other apple trees that are a different variety that don't have this condition. I'm hoping someone might be able to suggest a cause and if there is anything I can or should do for the trees. Thanks in advance for any help.

2007-07-08 13:57:07 · 4 answers · asked by p_doell 5

I live in Texas, and it has rained about 100 feet of water this month. My Bradford pear tree lost all of its leaves after they turned brown. If you touch the tree, it is really squishy......waterlogged. All of the nurseries are saying to give up because they want to sell me a new tree. They are saying "cottony root rot". Well, when you scratch the branches.....under the bark is still green. Is there a chance to live or should I hack away?

2007-07-08 13:55:00 · 2 answers · asked by no jap crap 3

I am sprucing up my yard big time and my flower beds are rich, very amended and lots of them and I think landscapers told me before to blow in or use a very fine bark because it keeps the soil moist and keeps the weed seeds out and I have noticed that as I see professional businesses this is what they do. I grow a lot of dahlias and Connells and Swan Island has said never spray like weed killer anywhere around them as it goes into the soil and into the tubers and poof, no more dahlias, so I have to get the best in bark mulch I can, altho a little at a time as I am on a fixed budget. so landscapers, bark ?????

2007-07-08 13:48:40 · 5 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5

I grow some roses in OR zone 7, and they do fine, but I just bought 5 more and I want to plant them where they will be really happy. I have good soil and raise a lot of flowers and it is hot here in the summer altho it gets cool at night. It seems that if they get any a.m. shade, they tend towards mildew on their leaves and I think they like a.m. sun with afternoon shade, as do most plants here. Any good suggestions besides spraying and all ? Or any new info on raising happy rose plants. They are hybrid teas.

2007-07-08 13:44:31 · 4 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5

I feel like I'm the only one! Doesn't anyone realize how amazingly beautiful it is when you save this precious gift for your husband/wife only?

2007-07-08 13:31:45 · 7 answers · asked by bookworm_628 2

My grandparents have a field that they'd like to turn into a prairie, but we don't know were to start.

2007-07-08 13:30:40 · 1 answers · asked by alwaysstagecrew87 2

I've been watering alot but now thier is mushrooms.The bald spots isn't growing grass in them.I've tried seed,but that didn't work.I just moved into this place 4 months ago and I've accually brought most of it back to life.

2007-07-08 13:00:51 · 1 answers · asked by oregoncheeto 3

2007-07-08 12:21:31 · 4 answers · asked by backed up 1

The local nursery said I should water once a week because my tomatoes devoloped a disease on the bottom and said I was over watering them

2007-07-08 12:12:11 · 5 answers · asked by Warren K 1

2007-07-08 12:07:28 · 2 answers · asked by Mark K 2

I have heard they give out harmful stuff at night

2007-07-08 11:44:47 · 9 answers · asked by jo d 1

2007-07-08 11:31:48 · 5 answers · asked by eddiemartini317 1

i just planted some seeds today, theyre "lady" and it say itll bloom within a year, will i see that THIS year or is it too late now that its almost mid-july. i live in cleveland ohio

2007-07-08 11:21:34 · 2 answers · asked by liltammy1988 2

how do you know when its ready?

2007-07-08 11:13:28 · 5 answers · asked by iluvhandsom. 1

A new maple tree has sprouted right next to my weeping cherry tree and I would like to transplant it soon, as it's trunk is about a 1 1/2" radius. It is so close though, that in order to get the appropriate sized root ball for the transplant, I am worried I may disrupt the root system on the cherry tree. Any suggestions?

2007-07-08 10:41:34 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

knee high by the 4th of July has always been the benchmark of a good crop. Mine was knee high. ...... still is....

2007-07-08 10:15:11 · 9 answers · asked by tennacious_c 2

the hedge looks like belong to me. but i checked out its base which is growthing on the neighbour's boundry. but all leaves are tended to mind. can i do anything else? how do i know whether it is belonging to me? i would not judged by my eyes only. how can i check it out? any suggestion what i can do?

2007-07-08 10:04:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

The leaf pix is where my photo usually is.

2007-07-08 10:03:25 · 4 answers · asked by kayo 1

i have a problem with my neighbour. i want to get a conservatory done by this summer. But i need to cut the hedge and build the fences up beforehand. The hedge is grown between us. i spoke to them and the neighbour is totally disagreed that as they said they want to keep it. Does anyone know or any suggestion what should i do? I'm getting permission at the moment (conservatory), do they really affect me to build a conservatory if the neighbour disagreed?

2007-07-08 09:21:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I planted provence lavender plants in April in north Texas. They are not blooming yet. When will they bloom?

2007-07-08 09:00:47 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am NOT over watering.

2007-07-08 08:56:42 · 10 answers · asked by sassy 2

2007-07-08 08:49:29 · 7 answers · asked by Gary O 1

the plant is part sun annual I got it a store. green yellow size 12-18 spacing 12-18 cold hardiness 32* water medium bloom time n/a

2007-07-08 08:42:41 · 1 answers · asked by flowerpot1990 2

IMO, Kubota makes the absolute best diesel tractors on the market! Kubota are better quality and MORE RELIABLE than John Deere and New Holland.

Opinions?

2007-07-08 08:37:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Everyone has problems with squirrels eating all the bird seed. We have several flowering plants on the back porch. the squirrels are now starting to eat the plants bare! I could kill them!! All we have now are potted sticks. They have an entire forrest back there to eat. We run them off every chance we get, but as we all know, they just come right back. we can't patrol the back porch all day. How do we stop them?

2007-07-08 08:12:16 · 8 answers · asked by wrynak 1

My 8 sunflowers were about 3' tall when I transplanted them to another part of the garden. I dug out the root ball, and moved them to a sunnier location. I watered the hole where they were to be planted, put a few ounces of miracle gro, and put the root ball into the new hole. I pressed the dirt to make an indentaiton around the stem, and have watered them well every day.
5 of the plants curved into a "C" shape, with all of the leaves limp and curling, but then we had a rainstorm, and they perked up. As soon as the sun came out, the leaves began to curl and droop again.

It's been a week. The lower leaves are limp and yellow or dry and dead, the upper leaves are droopy, and the head development has slowed to an almost standstill (they look like they've developed a tiy bit, but not much).

3 plants never drooped at all, and continued developing their heads as though they were never moved. What's wrong with the droopy ones? Have I killed them? Can I help them?

2007-07-08 08:06:03 · 6 answers · asked by Susan C 2