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Prince Vegeta said:
Mildew! Mildew! ..

This concludes my rant. Carry on.
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Powdery Mildew is endemic in my locale. I've attempted to use many things as a fix, and my permanent solution, has been using a silicone additive ("dyna grow pro-tect" is my chosen brand name product) with every irrigation as preventative maintenance. The silica is absorbed and becomes part of the superstructure of a growing plant. It is like an armor, that protects against drought stress and infection by disease/pestilence. By always adding this to growing plants, it can remain healthy enough to not succumb to a mildew death. Good luck!
 
Discovering a nursery that sells native plants nearby was a mistake.
I am just going full autism dreaming of a edible native garden...and I can't for reasons.

But
Some friend has a completely abandoned patch in their backyard. They wanted to add rocks but hardscaping is expensive and therefore they keep postponing it. So the area just sits there with unidentified shrubs and trees.
It just looks like complete shit in a otherwise pretty normal backyard area with a lawn.
Said friend cares very little for the all the fine aspects of gardening.

They occasionally ask me for help with weeding so I have the means and the opportunity.
Should I sneak plants/seeds in it? Y/N

Honestly I just want to put some fun but unfussy plants, ground covers would the priority but also something for them birds (which friend likes). You know, plants I want in my garden from the native plant nursery to help my friend.
 
Do mushrooms count? I have a small tank going with some mycellium on corn kernels.
 
MightyMorphin'Willbender said:
Discovering a nursery that sells native plants nearby was a mistake.
I am just going full autism dreaming of a edible native garden...and I can't for reasons.

But
Some friend has a completely abandoned patch in their backyard. They wanted to add rocks but hardscaping is expensive and therefore they keep postponing it. So the area just sits there with unidentified shrubs and trees.
It just looks like complete shit in a otherwise pretty normal backyard area with a lawn.
Said friend cares very little for the all the fine aspects of gardening.

They occasionally ask me for help with weeding so I have the means and the opportunity.
Should I sneak plants/seeds in it? Y/N

Honestly I just want to put some fun but unfussy plants, ground covers would the priority but also something for them birds (which friend likes). You know, plants I want in my garden from the native plant nursery to help my friend.
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tell them you are going to replace some "weeds" with "beneficial native perennial pollinator plants"

it sounds expensive and they will like it.

edit: say you're going to do it to improve the soil and make weeding easier in the future
 
Freshly Baked Socks said:
Powdery Mildew is endemic in my locale. I've attempted to use many things as a fix, and my permanent solution, has been using a silicone additive ("dyna grow pro-tect" is my chosen brand name product) with every irrigation as preventative maintenance. The silica is absorbed and becomes part of the superstructure of a growing plant. It is like an armor, that protects against drought stress and infection by disease/pestilence. By always adding this to growing plants, it can remain healthy enough to not succumb to a mildew death. Good luck!
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I have placed an order. Let's see if customs let's it through. Thanks for the tip!
 
I know there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, but has anyone found a ground cover that does a good job choking out grass? Dumb ol' lawn, I've been denying it water, overseeding with clover, and hair-plugging in selfheal from a thriving patch in the flower bed, but grass is tenacious.

I don't want to do the cardboard mulch thing because I do have good stuff in the lawn that I like (see above, plus daisies and squills), and also because I'm very very lazy.
 
Aunt Carol said:
I know there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, but has anyone found a ground cover that does a good job choking out grass? Dumb ol' lawn, I've been denying it water, overseeding with clover, and hair-plugging in selfheal from a thriving patch in the flower bed, but grass is tenacious.

I don't want to do the cardboard mulch thing because I do have good stuff in the lawn that I like (see above, plus daisies and squills), and also because I'm very very lazy.
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Anything that blocks out light will work. Can be cardboard, plywood a plastic tarp etc. Just need to keep it 100% covered for 6-7 days. It works great, its just slow and pretty unsightly while doing it.

Weve got a good amount a rain here the past week or so. My okra has had a huge growth spurt as a result. Yesterday they had 8 blooms between the two plants.
 
74164978231 said:
Anything that blocks out light will work. Can be cardboard, plywood a plastic tarp etc. Just need to keep it 100% covered for 6-7 days. It works great, its just slow and pretty unsightly while doing it.
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I tried that a couple of years ago. I covered the planting strip by the street with two layers of black plastic, held down with landscape staples and left it there for six months.

Grass came back.

So now I'm more into the fifth column infiltration style gradual grass replacement.
 
troon patrol said:
Do mushrooms count? I have a small tank going with some mycellium on corn kernels.
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Mushrooms are generally unsightly and most of them are poisonous or inedible. Plus because of the root system works you'll either never get rid of them or dump chemicals into the soil.

If you can control it and can produce desirable product (especially if it's rare), go for it--but ruining a lawn with mushroom spores sounds like grounds for a lawsuit.
 
Xarpho said:
Mushrooms are generally unsightly and most of them are poisonous or inedible. Plus because of the root system works you'll either never get rid of them or dump chemicals into the soil.

If you can control it and can produce desirable product (especially if it's rare), go for it--but ruining a lawn with mushroom spores sounds like grounds for a lawsuit.
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Oh these are very special genetics, bred for optimum psychoactive results. Like I said they're in a terrarium although growing in my backyard wouldn't be the worst thing to happen, either.
 
Aunt Carol said:
I know there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, but has anyone found a ground cover that does a good job choking out grass? Dumb ol' lawn, I've been denying it water, overseeding with clover, and hair-plugging in selfheal from a thriving patch in the flower bed, but grass is tenacious.
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Epimedium genus, but that shit is more invasive than kudzu. and is NOT native outside of China/Asia. Don't do it.
Wholly Croton (Croton capitatus) in the Southern US. Long as you don't spray 2,4-D (It has resistance now, use 50/50 mix of glyphosate+diquat with surfactant)
Depends on type of grass. Creeping Juniper can work if not in full sun like Florida.
 
A while back my apartment complex gave out English ivy plants as an Earth Day event. I threw mine out to plant potatoes, but I found one in the dumpster area and took it home, so now I have an ivy again. The stems look kind of broken so I don't know if it will survive, should I just clip it and hope it will sprout back again, since the root system is still intact?
 
Yes ivy of all forms can take a beating, so clip it.

My mint's still going crazy strong, so I made a new batch of mint tea. It's so comfy tasting.
 
Aunt Carol said:
I tried that a couple of years ago. I covered the planting strip by the street with two layers of black plastic, held down with landscape staples and left it there for six months.

Grass came back.

So now I'm more into the fifth column infiltration style gradual grass replacement.
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Could have been seeds starting brand new grass growth, or maybe crab grass that loves to spread like cancer? Id put down some mulch, that goes a long way to helping prevent unwanted growth.
 
Aunt Carol said:
I know there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, but has anyone found a ground cover that does a good job choking out grass? Dumb ol' lawn, I've been denying it water, overseeding with clover, and hair-plugging in selfheal from a thriving patch in the flower bed, but grass is tenacious.
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The clover's not gonna take unless you bust up the rhizome layer, which could be eight inches deep. I'd just rent a heavy-duty tiller and go scorched earth on a section and then seed with red clover.

Once red clover actually DOES get going it will choke the fuck out of grass.
 
Xarpho said:
Mushrooms are generally unsightly and most of them are poisonous or inedible. Plus because of the root system works you'll either never get rid of them or dump chemicals into the soil.

If you can control it and can produce desirable product (especially if it's rare), go for it--but ruining a lawn with mushroom spores sounds like grounds for a lawsuit.
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If memory serves, you cannot sell mushrooms in the US as a cottage industry if you process them in any way (Trimming stem butt, drying, etc). Some states do not allow cottage mushroom production iirc but the law may have changed.
 
My garden has just gotten worse. The salvaged ivy I gave up on (could've clipped it I guess), the potato died too...it had fallen over this morning and there was white stuff on the bottom of the roots. I should've known the potato had problems. It shot up from the eyes that I planted yet the leaves were still young and curled up, never maturing.

Upshot is the pepper's flowers look like they might actually open up and bloom instead of dying the minute visible petals appear.
 
Cautiously optimistic about my sulfur attack on the neighbourhood. My own plants (especially my poor trees) seem to be recovering. My silicone additive arrived and I will experiment with it. For now, this time of year, I will settle for a nice looking garden and less harvest.

Except the mint. The mint will outlive me, so I harvest that with extreme prejudice.
 
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