If it's really crazy, might be best to take it apart in pieces. Don't try to pull out huge pieces, just trim with lopers or some shears if you're brave and treat it like eating an elephant. Spread it over a couple days, even. Like someone else said, trim it all the way back to the root ball and, if you want it gone, shovel it
I worry about the clover and excess nitrogen, and wouldn’t that become a bit more hard packed and make it hard for seedlings? If I had just a bed of starts I think that’s a great idea though.
Doesn’t most grass species take a couple months to go to seed and dry to be viable? I would worry about spreading other weeds that couldn’t get established through the ground cover, but would excel in the fresh dirt. But that shouldn’t add much more than what was naturally already there though?
I love fresh artichokes - I can't find good ones here in grocery stores. I tried growing a one-year cultivar once - it did produce a couple of small buds, but wasn't worth the trouble.
Beautiful, it must have been one of your posts that lead me to the Tomatoe spirals! I saw some colorful ones, but they were from the states and 50% more than the green ones I found.
I think they should be perfect for my sunflowers too.
Hrmm not a bad idea, I could lay tarps across it early season, late season frost would be tough as it would be touching leafs and fruits then. Would be fine for any shade or critter cloths I would think, but it would also make harvesting anything inside of it difficult. Great idea for some other potential trellis for cucumbers though!
I also grow my tomatoes, squash, luffa, and melons up the trellis. 10ft panels make it pretty easy. Maybe you could double the trellis and tuck or trim everything in to the inside one before frost, and the outside one could be used for the cover?
Partly that, partly ergonomics, and one reason that no longer applies….
Here we have very clay heavy soil, so it’s easier to go up, and the more viable soil the more densely you can pack your garden beds. With raised beds you can avoid planting row style for more dense plantations since you aren’t walking between the plants compressing the soil.
Raised beds warm up earlier I’ve heard, haven’t tested that one yet, but supposedly you can plant earlier with them too.
Ergonomics should be self explanatory, less bending.
And I sadly had to put my blind dog away last week, so the taller beds were so she couldn’t waltz through them.
Very nice! What type of wood did you go with? I'm really wondering if I should just go with wood if/when my janky (but cheap!) beds start to fall apart.
Brown pressure treated wood. Cedar is nice but pricey, and there’s a few pressure treated color options now as well. The wood under the new boards is the same stuff, just a few years old now. Deck is the same stuff too.
There is some risk of chemical leakage from the wood potentially, but the stuff I was reading was about older more dangerous treatment chemicals.
The last two years we have bought Strawberries in a hanging pot. The runners end up with dangling strawberries on them which increases the yield. We didn't winterize them correctly so we got a new basket this year. They spread like crazy so you don't want them directly in the yard.
Wild strawberries Fragaria virginiana are the North America native variety and are a little more well behaved but will still create a mat that will smoother things under them. Best to buy the plant and let it spread
Ha, this might be the worst of both worlds. Aggressively spreading and smaller fruit. They are pretty tasty though. Time will tell if they're ever bearers.
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