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Welcome to gardeners, growers of veggies, fruits, flowers, and trees!

Welcome backyard hen enthusiasts, worm farmers, beekeepers & composters!

Location: Planet Earth
Members: 142
Latest Activity: 19 hours ago

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If you like to dig in the dirt, plant & prune, grow food & flowers, or sit and watch as someone else does your landscaping, you'll find something here to discuss!

Selected topics, in no particular order:
Moon Phase Widget here. Moon phase topic here.
What's your gardening style?
Frugal gardening.
Backyard Chickens here. here. here. here.
Growing Fruits
Wild Parsnip - It can burn skin.
Why buy locally-grown plants?
Squirrels.
bees.
Cheap gardening.
Buy locally grown plants to prevent blight transmission here.
Grow lots of fruits in a small space, by backyard orchard culture.

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Comment by Michael R Mills on June 13, 2012 at 4:02pm: Ah well - couldn't have had chickens in Regent's Park....

Comment by Sentient Biped on June 13, 2012 at 2:19pm: Michael, the only thing I've found that will eliminate bishopweed is chickens. I have a space that was covered with the stuff. I fenced it in and let my hens run amok among the stuff. The hens completely destroyed it. Unfortunately, I can't do that in the rest of the yard. It hasn't crossed some barriers, but areas that I had cleared out are now completely invaded again. I hate that stuff. Actually, thinking about it I haven't been feeding it to the chickens lately. I should go out and pull some for them. Other than that, I'm doing some mulching that helps a bit, but they sometimes poke through it.

Comment by Sentient Biped on June 13, 2012 at 2:14pm: Joan, I"m sure you are right about the balloon flower! It's quite pretty. If I get a chance I'll save seeds. I have no idea how it got there - none that I can see around the neighborhood. There are also some very pretty wild geraniums in the yard, which I intentionally leave alone.

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That's a great idea about how to pull weeds!

Comment by Michael R Mills on June 13, 2012 at 1:39pm: I doubt anything will crowd out the Bishopweed - I had to fight that in my UK garden, after a previous gardener had planted it in the rockery.

It was a losing battle.

Comment by Sentient Biped on June 13, 2012 at 1:20pm: That's interesting. It's almost myositis - muscle inflammation. They keep spreading and they grow fast. It will be interesting to see if they crowd out the bishopweed which is my worst invasive weed. Well, that and scilla.