What are your plans for spring gardening?

[Anonymous]

This is the time of year when I become obsessed with my garden. Anyone else? My project this year is to redo two shade gardens that I've been neglecting. I bought a bunch of plants that I'm hoping will thrive in these areas of my yard: astilbe, hosta, bleeding heart, carex evergold, lungwort, and hellebores. I can't wait to get them in the ground!

[Anonymous]

Our big one is adding a shed. I’m torn on where to put it.

[Anonymous]

I'm currently trying to fix my front landscaping, which is going TERRIBLY, and have added another raised bed in the backyard, which will be fine (not planting veggies yet).

Also this year I bought a compost tumbler so I can stop paying for compost delivery every year. Fingers crossed!

[Anonymous]

Picking up some pretty flowers and herbs from frager's and dropping them in my planters with some potting soil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm currently trying to fix my front landscaping, which is going TERRIBLY, and have added another raised bed in the backyard, which will be fine (not planting veggies yet).

Also this year I bought a compost tumbler so I can stop paying for compost delivery every year. Fingers crossed!

What’s going on with your front landscaping? I’m working on this too and it sucks because the beds are like 80% clay!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm currently trying to fix my front landscaping, which is going TERRIBLY, and have added another raised bed in the backyard, which will be fine (not planting veggies yet).

Also this year I bought a compost tumbler so I can stop paying for compost delivery every year. Fingers crossed!

What’s going on with your front landscaping? I’m working on this too and it sucks because the beds are like 80% clay!

Mine's the opposite problem -- things grow too well. I am trying to replace the (very sloped, hard to mow) grass portion out front with groundcover/mulch, and I decided not to kill everything off with a harsh pesticide first because bees and the environment and decency. So now I have mulch with just an astonishing amount of weeds/grass poking up through it, and I feel like I should've just Round-up'ed the whole slope to give myself a blank slate.

[Anonymous]

I'm getting back to it this year after letting everything go last spring/summer due to having a baby. Very excited to plant veggies and herbs again and to try and beat the weeds back into submission elsewhere. I have a bee/butterfly garden that I started several years ago that I plan to add more plants too and maybe (hopefully) a stepping stone path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm currently trying to fix my front landscaping, which is going TERRIBLY, and have added another raised bed in the backyard, which will be fine (not planting veggies yet).

Also this year I bought a compost tumbler so I can stop paying for compost delivery every year. Fingers crossed!

What’s going on with your front landscaping? I’m working on this too and it sucks because the beds are like 80% clay!

Mine's the opposite problem -- things grow too well. I am trying to replace the (very sloped, hard to mow) grass portion out front with groundcover/mulch, and I decided not to kill everything off with a harsh pesticide first because bees and the environment and decency. So now I have mulch with just an astonishing amount of weeds/grass poking up through it, and I feel like I should've just Round-up'ed the whole slope to give myself a blank slate.

Can you try to plant out the weeds by adding in more plants? Did you dig the grass and turn it upside down before mulching? That's how I always make new beds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm currently trying to fix my front landscaping, which is going TERRIBLY, and have added another raised bed in the backyard, which will be fine (not planting veggies yet).

Also this year I bought a compost tumbler so I can stop paying for compost delivery every year. Fingers crossed!

What’s going on with your front landscaping? I’m working on this too and it sucks because the beds are like 80% clay!

Mine's the opposite problem -- things grow too well. I am trying to replace the (very sloped, hard to mow) grass portion out front with groundcover/mulch, and I decided not to kill everything off with a harsh pesticide first because bees and the environment and decency. So now I have mulch with just an astonishing amount of weeds/grass poking up through it, and I feel like I should've just Round-up'ed the whole slope to give myself a blank slate.

Can you try to plant out the weeds by adding in more plants? Did you dig the grass and turn it upside down before mulching? That's how I always make new beds.

Well that's the plan but it's not working so far. Will keep at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm currently trying to fix my front landscaping, which is going TERRIBLY, and have added another raised bed in the backyard, which will be fine (not planting veggies yet).

Also this year I bought a compost tumbler so I can stop paying for compost delivery every year. Fingers crossed!

What’s going on with your front landscaping? I’m working on this too and it sucks because the beds are like 80% clay!

Mine's the opposite problem -- things grow too well. I am trying to replace the (very sloped, hard to mow) grass portion out front with groundcover/mulch, and I decided not to kill everything off with a harsh pesticide first because bees and the environment and decency. So now I have mulch with just an astonishing amount of weeds/grass poking up through it, and I feel like I should've just Round-up'ed the whole slope to give myself a blank slate.

I’m the clay PP. I’m dealing with the slopes, mulched thing in my backyard. I hand pulled everything and dinmulch and this spring, weeds and old ground
cover are growing all over the mulch. Like you, I’m trying to avoid chemicals.

Have you ruled out weed barrier? It it true that weed barrier is bad to use with mulched beds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm currently trying to fix my front landscaping, which is going TERRIBLY, and have added another raised bed in the backyard, which will be fine (not planting veggies yet).

Also this year I bought a compost tumbler so I can stop paying for compost delivery every year. Fingers crossed!

What’s going on with your front landscaping? I’m working on this too and it sucks because the beds are like 80% clay!

Mine's the opposite problem -- things grow too well. I am trying to replace the (very sloped, hard to mow) grass portion out front with groundcover/mulch, and I decided not to kill everything off with a harsh pesticide first because bees and the environment and decency. So now I have mulch with just an astonishing amount of weeds/grass poking up through it, and I feel like I should've just Round-up'ed the whole slope to give myself a blank slate.

I’m the clay PP. I’m dealing with the slopes, mulched thing in my backyard. I hand pulled everything and dinmulch and this spring, weeds and old ground
cover are growing all over the mulch. Like you, I’m trying to avoid chemicals.

Have you ruled out weed barrier? It it true that weed barrier is bad to use with mulched beds?

There's a weed barrier from the old owners about 4 inches below the chaos as is, so I have no faith in them.

[Anonymous]

Have a raised bed that's defined by wooden planks. Hoping to take that out and replace it with a smaller raised bed bordered in stone work. I've never done any stone work before (myself), so this will be a bit of a challenge....but it's a pretty small space, so I'm hoping will be doable.