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How do I take over a previous owners raised beds?
My fiancee and I just bought our first home and I'd like to start my journey of vegetable gardening. The previous homeowners have 3 raised beds on the South side of the house. We haven't moved in yet so I'm not able to verify the amount of…
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Bonsai pot broke due to accident
I am a bonsai beginner and a friend gifted me a ficus bonsai. A stray cat got into the house and jumped on the table where I had kept my bonsai pot, tipping the table and breaking the pot. I wasn't around at home when this happened and my dad did…
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Recommendations for Composting Bin
I want to start composting my yard and kitchen waste and use the compost to fertilize vegetables in my raised bed and some fruit trees I have. Right now I am not doing composting. My options are do nothing or use one of the smaller bins (pictures…
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How to prepare urea for orchard composting?
I've been told to follow up an infestation of apple scab by composting any leaf litter on the orchard floor to destroy spores. I plan to haul away most of the leaves to my garden composter but a 5% urea solution is indicated for the orchard floor.…
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What plant is this? Is it a variety of fern?
A few of this plant is growing in our front yard. Though the leaves look like fern they don't grow like a fern. You can the small ones that just sprouted in the background.
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Can I shave exposed roots from a Silver Maple tree to avoid damage when mowing?
We have large roots from a huge Silver Maple tree that are partially above ground and interfere with mowing.
Can I shave them so the mower can pass over them?
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Cloning currants shouldnt be this hard..?
I keep seeing claims that currant cuttings will "root enthusiastically". I'd love to have another black currant bush or two, but so far I haven't been able to get one to survive. They usually last long enough to drop the original leaves and start…
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What's digging holes in my indoor potted plants?
I have a indoor basil potted plant in an office environment and over the weekend holes appeared on the surface of the soil, as if something dug them. The pots are next to a window, but it's closed at the weekends.
A few times I've I noticed…
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How can I control erosion on a steep trail?
I have a trail about 10' wide going down a hill in the woods behind my house. This particular section has a ~10-15% grade. It receives regular foot, tractor, and log skidding (i.e. behind the tractor) traffic, so there's not much that grows in the…
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What sort of pots are used in the pot-in-pot method?
The pot-in-pot method of growing uses a production pot inside another pot which is in ground. This allows you to swap pots easily, and some 20 good reasons why this might be a good idea are listed here.
One other reason I came across was that if…
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Can I add soil to strawberries, creating a raised bed?
I'm moving into a new house that has a good sized strawberry patch on one of the corners of the lawn. I want to build a large raised bed for it and help it spread out more. If I build the border of the bed, and just gradually fill it in with soil,…
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What trees would be good along a boundary wall and avenue in India?
I am from the eastern part of India i.e. Ranchi (Jharkhand ). Can anyone recommend some trees I can plant along the boundary wall of a school campus? They should provide good shade, temperature reduction, noise reduction and be fast growing.
We also…
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What is a good strategy for laying patio pavers?
I would like to lay several patio pavers for a new patio. The pavers are 12" square. The size I want to do is rectangular, and the base is flat with a slight slope away from the house. Should I start laying the pavers in the middle, or up by the…
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Filling low spot in yard
I have a low spot in my yard that I want to fill in. It is an 8' diameter spot that is about 4"- 6" lower than the surrounding grass. The grass in this spot it mostly dead from this being a small pond for an extended period of time.
The two…
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