BS: How does your garden grow?

Subject: RE: BS: How does your garden grow?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 12:11 PM

Chinese lanterns and ivy have taken over. At least it's not kudzu.

Subject: RE: BS: How does your garden grow?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 11:39 AM

The largest part of my yard is toast, but I water around the base of the house to keep the foundation in place, so there is "lawn" (grass and weeds) there. There are a couple of native groundcovers (horseherb and frogfruit) growing as much as I can encourage it, to gradually crowd out the turf.

My vegetable garden is struggling with the heat and there are more grasshoppers this year. I water deeply and infrequently (so for the veggies, a deep watering about once a week, and buckets of gray water from dish washing poured over them for a quick rescue if they're wilting too badly during the day).

Subject: BS: How does your garden grow?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 11:29 AM

I have mentioned before that our lawn is full of Heal All (Prunella Vulgaris) It is a lovely little low growing plant but a no-no for lawn lovers. Which, luckily, I am not :-) Under the Leylandii - not planted by us I must say - the red valerian grows like wildfire. Up to now I have the makings of a herbalists :-D In the bed between us and next door I have spotted yarrow, meadow phlox and toadflax. The sea holly that I dug up a couple of years back is making a comeback and the poppies that we never planted keep popping up in all sorts of odd places!