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#36557 - 08/27/04 01:29 AM Re: gardening...help!
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Probably stole them for the sunflower seeds, either to plant of roast and eat. People are pigs and have no respect for others property. When I owned my home on the water, city people from Chicago would pull up to my dock and walk into the rose garden and snip some. That happened twice. I had the yard fenced on both sides down to the water and allowed Shadow and Raven my Dobermans to run loose...Guess what, it never happened again. We never locked the dog door and they use to lay in the utility room and watch the yard, if anyone stepped onto the pier the dogs were after them. Like I said, people are pigs for the most part.
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#36558 - 08/29/04 04:51 AM Re: gardening...help!
DJ Member Registered: 11/22/02 Posts: 1149 Loc: Ohio	Dots Dahlia corms don't come back in this zone because they aren't hardy below 5 degrees, I think (I'm not exactly sure how much cold they can stand. The ones I had were next to the wall, facing east, and next to the dryer vent. They lasted 2 or 3 years there.) So if it goes to zero, they die. My sister's house is next to an alley, and people used to go by and cut off the tops of flowers all the time, until she decided not to plant them there any more.
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#36559 - 08/29/04 01:52 PM Re: gardening...help!
jawjaw Da Queen Registered: 07/02/03 Posts: 12025 Loc: Alabama	DJ, I know this is probably a dumb question, but I do need help with it. I have a bed around my front porch and have lots of different things in it...the problem is the weeds. I clean out the bed every spring and fall, but the weeds are coming back within a month and continue popping up here and there. Some of them get away from me and before I know it, it looks like I've planted a bush! I wish I knew what this one weed was called. I hate those things and it is always the first thing to come back. Anyway, I have the black stuff down...and have put new down, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Is there something I can spray that wouldn't hurt the plants, flowers or bushes in there?
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#36560 - 08/29/04 08:07 PM Re: gardening...help!
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	jawjaw, great question about a spray. Our weeks have been worse this year than any I can remember. We always spread mulch in the spring, but for some reason it's not doing the trick this year. Do you think it could be the difference in the mulch from one year to the next?
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#36561 - 08/30/04 01:40 AM Re: gardening...help!
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	JJ what black stuff are you referring to that you have down? Do the weeds come up in exactly the same place each time?
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#36562 - 08/30/04 05:13 AM Re: gardening...help!
jawjaw Da Queen Registered: 07/02/03 Posts: 12025 Loc: Alabama	there is no rhyme or reason to how they come up...the black stuff I'm referring to is the tarp-like stuff you lay down before you fill a flower bed with your plants. It is suppose to keep the weeds out. Not. JJ
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