I'm just guessing that we're above. Measurable rain was a regular thing in my area in April, May and June. July has been a bit drier, but I still think we're at least average. I got about a half inch last night and they're calling for more storms late day today and again tomorrow. I've not watered t...

I've been spraying mine with RU for every 7 days or so for the past month. The main clumps are mostly brown, but I have little tiny shoots coming up from the rhizomes. I'll keep spraying those as the pop up and keep my fingers crossed that eventually it all dies out.

English Ivy is an often recommended ground cover. It really is not too difficult to control. It is no more difficult to keep English Ivy out of the lawn than it is to keep bluegrass out of the ivy beds. You are absolutely, right. If you take the time and stay on top of it, you can easily control it...

looks like liriope spicata to me. Trying to kill some of that off myself. I thought it was liriope muscari when I planted it (I got if from a neighbor), but I started seeing it come up 3+ feet from where I planted it. Decided it was time to kill it off. Round up seems to be working pretty good. I've...

stonewall doesn't work on hairy bittercress, but dimension does. I have lots of that stuff, but really only in my zoysia in the front yard. I used stonewall this spring and plan to use dimension in the fall since hairy bittercress is a winter weed.

If your neighbors have it, you're fighting an uphill battle as it will just keep coming. It's bad enough when it's spreading on the ground, but once it starts going vertical, it's even worse. When ivy climbs it grows into a mature stage which produces berries that birds love. Not only will the vine ...

mine keeps coming up in three of my gardens. I've been out for the past month treating it with Sedgehammer and a paintbrush. I hate nutsedge!

Our first pit was a stray puppy that my brother found when it was 4 or so months old and we had no idea what he was, but we thought he was some kind of lab mix. Our vet was ancient and didn't say anything about his breed when we took him in for an exam and shot, either. When we'd had him for about a...

Guess my rant worked.....5.2 inches of rain in the last 5 days!!! ENOUGH ALREADY! Yep - ask and you shall receive! I guess too many of us were asking for rain! We received over 6" at my house. Just prior to the rainy season, it had been very hot and dry, so I had delayed putting down my see and top...

You just described my native soil - sand with lots of little pebbles in it. Before I discovered that that is pretty much all there was, I sifted the soil through a sieve - not sure what it was originally intended for, but I picked it up a flea market. Very cool and well made wooden device with a met...

evil weed. I apparently brought some in the soil with my lavender or my day lillies when I moved the last time and have had this stuff popping up intermingled with the plants the last few years. What a pain in the butt. I alway think there must have been some nutlets in the bags of topsoil I got a H...

I use the guard on mine when I'm using the spreader near the street, driveway or walkway. I find it very helpful. I'm not sure I would make a guard of my own if my spreader didn't have one, though. Guess it would depend on how much time/effort and cost was involved.

Yikes - I hope the lurker wasn't copying the plan for micros if that was included. Messing with macros can cause enough damage. A $20 soil test is one of the least expensive items I've encountered since I stumbled into this forum/hobby. If you want to save a little bit here and there, there are cert...

Plenty of tree root damage to sidewalks here in the older parts of Baltimore/Washington cities where the common practice was to line the residential streets with large growing trees. I feel so bad for the trees planted in downtown DC sidewalks. No clue what's holding them in place because there is ...

As my mother used to say, "as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth".

49, but wont' be for too much longer!

Many of the natural areas around the DC area (Rock Creek Park, comes to mind) have problems with ivy taking over the ground and then climbing and smothering native trees. Many folks don't know that english ivy has two growth phases - juvenile and mature. It will usually stay in the juvenile phase if...

retail is doing the same thing with clothes. I can't even begin to think about buying a long sleeved shirt when it's 90 degrees and extremely humid outside. If it were on the clearance rack - perhaps. But full price - No way!

I'm not sure if it's different for young oaks, but I was told in the past that oaks did not like a lot of water, especially in the summer.

So far, I've been lucky with the rain this year. Friday late afternoon I left work in DC and was hit by a monsoon about 2 miles into my commute. The storm and I were traveling in the same direction, so it was a very long, stressful ride. It had been about 8 days since we'd gotten any measureable rai...

andy10917 wrote:Same here Xap. I have a couple of Hydrangea (variety 'NoDamnIdea')

What a coincidence - that's the same variety I have!