I headed off to The Home Depot early this morning to pick up a few supplies for the remodel {the HH and I are going to start working on the demo today} and would you believe while I was there I managed to put a few gardening items in my cart as well. 😉
Some women like shopping with their girlfriends or hanging out at the wine bars, but I’m a Home Depot addict. I.Can’t.Get.Enough. Seriously, I pretty much have the store layout memorized. I should apply for a job there.
Anywho, have you ever tried Casoron? It is “designed to help prevent the growth of 52 different weeds and grasses, and is recommended for sprinkling around established ornamental trees and shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees and berry plants.”
Yes it is a chemical. No it not organic {shame on me!} Yes it smells bad and you have to wear protective gear {mask, gloves} while applying it, but you know what? It kills all of weeds for up to a year {sometimes even two!} and it is worth it’s price tag of $25 a bag if you ask me.
Mrs. Hillbilly, Chino and I have all used it before in our rock borders to squelch out weeds. The only trick to getting your weeds to not come back for an entire year is to pull them all out before applying the product. I used Casoron {sparingly} at our last house in the front yard because I didn’t lay landscape fabric down before we installed the garden beds when we were building our house. Luckily I noticed how quickly the weeds were growing soon after we moved in, and used landscape fabric like crazy in the backyard and didn’t really have a weed problem back there.
Now I like a organic garden as much as anyone else, and my vegetable garden has always been an organic one {I do sprinkle a little Sluggo from time to time} but since this place doesn’t have landscape fabric and I don’t want to spend all summer pulling weeds from the gravel walkway, I went ahead and investing in a bag of the stuff. Have you tried Casoron before?
Another little project I’ve been working on is removing the moss from our lawn. It is a total pain let me tell you.
But luckily I found a little metal rake at The Home Depot for $6.99 and it’s making the job go pretty fast. I plan on re-seeding the area once the weather warms up. I’ll let you know if I get a letter in the mail from the HOA telling me my lawn looks like crap. 😉
Last week I planted 9 blueberry bushes and 75 strawberry plants. So far so good! Everything is still alive.
And the day-lilies I transplanted a few weeks ago are looking good as well.
The sugar snap peas I planted in containers haven’t popped up be I should start to see them poking through the soil in a few more days.
Check out my oregano!! I started a half flat of oregano seeds about a month ago with plans to transplant them to individual containers once they reach about 4″ tall. I plant to divide up the 12×12 clump of plants into 9 or 12 smaller containers before planting them into the garden later this spring.I’m excited. If all goes well I should have a nice little hedge of oregano in my herb garden.
And take a look at my homegrown basil. I’m keeping in near the kitchen window and plan to make a batch of pesto when they leaves get nice and fat.
How is your indoor or outdoor garden coming along these days?
This years garden is being sponsored by the awesome folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company. You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2015 Garden Seed Catalog, or see the seeds I’ll be growing in my garden this year HERE.
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