Have you removed all grass from your front yard & replaced with plants
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Comments (6)The percolation test is quite simple -- Dig a hole about 1 foot deep. Pour it full of water and wait... Observe whether it soaks in... Then, once it has soaked in -- fill it up full of water again and let it soak in again.. If it all soaks in within a few minutes -- you may be draining too fast and the grass dries out too fast... If it doesn't drain within a day... you have other problems.... Sometimes clay soils will soak in great on the 1st round, then will become impermeable after the 2nd or 3rd round -- as the clay saturates... It can also help point out problems in the subsoil like pure coarse sand, big rocks and hard-pans... (Gosh, my lawn drains fine here, but doesn't drain at all over there... I wonder why?) The 2nd test is outlined on here somewhere -- but it is to determine your soil makeup.. You take a mason jar about 1/3 full of dirt (No rocks and sticks).. Fill it mostly full of water.. Shake it up really good and let it sit overnight... Then shake it up really good again and let it sit again... It will separate out into various layers.. Sand and rocks on the bottom, silt in the middle, clay near the top, and light organic material on the top or floating... You then measure the layers with a tape measure and it tells you the soil makeup... These tests will help lead you in the direction of which amendments will help vs which ones will hurt... If your soil is all sand and already drains too fast.. Adding more sand won't help anything... but adding a little Clay would help quite a bit... and vice versa. Thanks John...See MoreIt pays to have your roses in the front yard.
Comments (28)Rita---I am so happy for you---Isn't it wonderful when your garden is appreciated by so many---- My front yard was always too shady for roses but since we just lost a big tree---who knows what will happen now--LOL Florence...See MoreFront yard is all weeds no grass..need guidance..
Comments (5)You can use a tiller to till those "weeds" back into the soil. They have been growing there, removing nutrients from that soil, and as long as there are no seeds formed they will be digested by the Soil Food Web and put those nutrients back into the soil without adding more "weed" seeds. The pruners could be used to cut that hedge down, depending on the thickness of the branches for the roots. The pruners may help you cut the hedge down enough to be able to get a chain saw in if that is necessary. Depending on the type of hedge you may need to remove the roots also, or that hedge may grow back from the roots. What ever that hedge is it can be chipped up to use as mulch, again because that hedge grew there removing nutrients from the soil that you will need to replace from somwhere....See MoreWe want a NO GRASS front yard - please help!
Comments (10)There are a ton of ground covers that would work well. Creeping phlox won't get that high, is native and has pretty flowers. You can also do bear-berry or wintergreen. There's a house near me with a huge patch of bear-berry under their trees. These are naturally low-growing. Low bush blueberries work, too. A cottage garden will take constant work. It will be pretty and worth it, if you love puttering in the garden. A meadow or prairie shouldn't take too much work after they are established, but it can take time to get them right -- so they look like meadows, not unmowed weed patches. Gardens or a garden bed full of evergreens can be nice. But, it kind of sounds like you went wild at the nursery, without a plan. You should put together ideabooks and figure out what you want your yard to look like....See MoreKW PNW Z8
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