Spring and summer 2014

Wolferz · 05-08-14, 12:10 PM

A place to post your gardening adventures and other warm weather minutiae after a very brutal winter.

Yesterday I completed a battery repair on my lawn tractor and got 'er fired up to cut my grass. That's when I discover that two of the tires have no atmo in them. The only air pump I have available is one that plugs into a car cigarette lighter power socket. So I tried to bring the tractor around the house to where my truck is parked and dagnabit I rolled two tires off of their rims in the process. Removed the rims from their axles to cart them to an air station at a local gas hole. One of the rear tires was popped off the bead and the air compressor at the gas hole was one of those automated jobbies that couldn't force the bead back on the rim. So I did the next best thing...
Went in the store and bought a can of starting fluid. Sprayed it into the void and lit it. POP! The tire was remounted in an instant.

Returned home, remounted the wheels to the axles...
It starts raining.

STEED · 05-08-14, 12:18 PM

I want to kill my garden asap without chemical or biological products any ideas?

Betonov · 05-08-14, 12:28 PM

A gardening thread, lovely

I got about 20 seedlings of different kinds of chilli and a couple of seedlings of tobacco. The tomatoes, basil, bell pepper I'll buy next week.
There's still a cold front here and I'll wait until Monday when nights are warmer than 1'°C.

The trees I planted in autumn are all rooted in successfully, the pears might grow a fruit this year.

The neighbours horse is providing me a steady supply of manure and I produce my own fetrillizer from stinging nesttles.

Admiral Halsey · 05-08-14, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

I want to kill my garden asap without chemical or biological products any ideas?

That's easy. Just use fire and it'll be dead in no time.

STEED · 05-08-14, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey

That's easy. Just use fire and it'll be dead in no time.

Not sure the neighbors go for that one...

999
Fire engine please a crazy neighbor has set fire to his garden..

OK slight change to the question...WEEDS DAM WEEDS.

Jimbuna · 05-08-14, 12:39 PM

Had my front garden laid with patterned concrete (cobblestone design) a few years ago and at great expense.

In the meantime I'm contemplating the rear of the prperty which is at least three times the size...the wife is getting a bit weary of being the only gardebner in the family.

u crank · 05-08-14, 12:50 PM

I just took down my Christmas lights.

Also put battery in lawn tractor and fired it up. It's a miracle. It started without using any voodoo or obscene language. Lawn is getting green but not ready to cut. And a sure sign that summer is comin'. The first cruise ship of the season arrived today.

Tango589 · 05-08-14, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

Not sure the neighbors go for that one...

999
Fire engine please a crazy neighbor has set fire to his garden..

OK slight change to the question...WEEDS DAM WEEDS.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/use-vin...ler-49329.html

Apparently salt and vinegar solution works as a permanent solution, plus any left over can be sprayed on your chip supper!

STEED · 05-08-14, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Bear in mind Tango didn't say what he cut the lawns with...

Man that is a lawn mower.

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Originally Posted by Tango589

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/use-vin...ler-49329.html

Apparently salt and vinegar solution works as a permanent solution, plus any left over can be sprayed on your chip supper!

Thanks I'm going give that a spin.

Aktungbby · 05-08-14, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

I want to kill my garden asap without chemical or biological products any ideas?

Cover with easily obtainable 1000 sq ft. black sheet plastic (cheap); Used it to kill tough nasty Bermuda (heat and no sunlight) grass prior to rolling fresh bluegrass sod. Works great as poor man's pool heater too; floats directly on surface and black just absorbs solar energy actually too well. Good to have on hand to keep firewood dry and in one worst case scenario, a temp fix (held with bricks from old earth-quake chimney) after a neighbors' gutted-roof fire.

Just installed frames for planter box veggies with auto timed sprinklers and drip irrigation; added strawberry/raspberry planter box this year and have all the potted and hanging plants on sprinklers too.

Wolferz · 05-10-14, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

I want to kill my garden asap without chemical or biological products any ideas?

Salt it. Be advised that nothing will ever grow there again until you remove and replace all of the sodium contaminated soil.
If you're not looking for a permanent ban on flora, clear or opaque plastic will allow the sun to cook the vegetation to death.

Aktungbby · 05-10-14, 01:47 PM

or wait a few thousand years! Carthage: after the Romans salted the earth. Third Punic War!

Wolferz · 05-10-14, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

or wait a few thousand years! Carthage: after the Romans salted the earth. Third Punic War!

Natural erosion and the laying down of new soil cured the Roman Foliday.

Tango589 · 06-03-14, 08:49 AM

Great. I come back off holiday and the hose watering the apple tree came adrift so the tree didn't get nearly enough water. The soil was dry, quite a few of the leaves have curled up and I the flowers have gone. I gave it a good dousing, but I hope the situation is redeemable. Any suggestions?

05-08-14, 12:10 PM	#1
Wolferz Navy Seal Join Date: May 2007 Location: On a mighty quest for the Stick of Truth Posts: 5,963 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Spring and summer 2014 A place to post your gardening adventures and other warm weather minutiae after a very brutal winter. Yesterday I completed a battery repair on my lawn tractor and got 'er fired up to cut my grass. That's when I discover that two of the tires have no atmo in them. The only air pump I have available is one that plugs into a car cigarette lighter power socket. So I tried to bring the tractor around the house to where my truck is parked and dagnabit I rolled two tires off of their rims in the process. Removed the rims from their axles to cart them to an air station at a local gas hole. One of the rear tires was popped off the bead and the air compressor at the gas hole was one of those automated jobbies that couldn't force the bead back on the rim. So I did the next best thing... Went in the store and bought a can of starting fluid. Sprayed it into the void and lit it. POP! The tire was remounted in an instant. Returned home, remounted the wheels to the axles... It starts raining. __________________ Tomorrow never comes

05-08-14, 12:18 PM	#2
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	I want to kill my garden asap without chemical or biological products any ideas? __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

05-08-14, 12:39 PM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,964 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Had my front garden laid with patterned concrete (cobblestone design) a few years ago and at great expense. In the meantime I'm contemplating the rear of the prperty which is at least three times the size...the wife is getting a bit weary of being the only gardebner in the family. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

05-08-14, 12:50 PM	#7
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,748 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	I just took down my Christmas lights. Also put battery in lawn tractor and fired it up. It's a miracle. It started without using any voodoo or obscene language. Lawn is getting green but not ready to cut. And a sure sign that summer is comin'. The first cruise ship of the season arrived today. __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,071 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	or wait a few thousand years! Carthage: after the Romans salted the earth. Third Punic War! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

05-08-14, 12:28 PM	#3
Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	A gardening thread, lovely I got about 20 seedlings of different kinds of chilli and a couple of seedlings of tobacco. The tomatoes, basil, bell pepper I'll buy next week. There's still a cold front here and I'll wait until Monday when nights are warmer than 1'°C. The trees I planted in autumn are all rooted in successfully, the pears might grow a fruit this year. The neighbours horse is providing me a steady supply of manure and I produce my own fetrillizer from stinging nesttles.

06-03-14, 08:49 AM	#14
Tango589 Still crazy as ever! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 3,377 Downloads: 180 Uploads: 1	Great. I come back off holiday and the hose watering the apple tree came adrift so the tree didn't get nearly enough water. The soil was dry, quite a few of the leaves have curled up and I the flowers have gone. I gave it a good dousing, but I hope the situation is redeemable. Any suggestions? __________________ Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way...