Full or part Sun? Full or part Shade? Are Perennials or annuals in the bed? You might want to consider native perennials. As far as low cost, it will be later in the season but places like Lowe's discounts plants that are starting to look bad. They usually create a clearance area. Pretty easy to bring them back to life. The other option is Craigslist. Sometimes people offer plants at low to no cost.
Flower Bed - help!!
Ok guys n gals I need some good ideas for inexpensive, fairly easy way to get my flower bed up to par. It's fairly big and overgrown so bad with weeds. I have not weeded this year because I want to put down an affordable weed barrier option, but also not sure what to put on top of the weed barrier. I don't have a lot of time or $$ for this.
There are some plants I would like to salvage but if the weeds are in them too much then I think we will just pull everything and start over. I'm just so over it being so unkept and I just don't have time or the energy to be weeding it every single week (it's baaaaad lol).
We normally put it off until closer to May before we do anything so the risk of freezing/frost is usually gone. Well... It's April 30th...lol
There are some plants I would like to salvage but if the weeds are in them too much then I think we will just pull everything and start over. I'm just so over it being so unkept and I just don't have time or the energy to be weeding it every single week (it's baaaaad lol).
We normally put it off until closer to May before we do anything so the risk of freezing/frost is usually gone. Well... It's April 30th...lol
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Sorry I posted this then didn't get a chance to come back on. It was in the middle of the night so I know I was rambling and confusing lol! I am just looking for ideas on weed barrier options. The weeds are out of control. I'm not sure what I should use that would be inexpensive, easy to install and last. Or what to put on top of it - mulch or ?
Big thing - when I go to plant, just cut holes in the weed barrier? I plan on buying already started plants and possibly transplanting some that I have. I'm hoping to get some that will come up every year.
Ideally I'd like to do this Sunday because the flower bed is so embarrassingly unkept, but well see how I feel Sunday after a very busy Thurs-Sat at the races.
Big thing - when I go to plant, just cut holes in the weed barrier? I plan on buying already started plants and possibly transplanting some that I have. I'm hoping to get some that will come up every year.
Ideally I'd like to do this Sunday because the flower bed is so embarrassingly unkept, but well see how I feel Sunday after a very busy Thurs-Sat at the races.
A roll of heavy duty landscape fabric will do it. Heavily mulch on top. Cut holes where you want to plant.
You can go through with some nippers or a weed eater, and just cut all the weeds off close to the ground, then put paper feed sacks, grocery bags, newspapers, or any other paper on top of the weeds. Then put fresh soil on top. The paper products will biodegrade, but in my experience, once you have the paper products down, and 10 or 12 inches of fresh soil on top, the weeds are going to have a really hard time getting back up to the surface. If there's anything you want to save, I would dig that out before you put paper down, and make sure you carefully remove any weeds from the roots of those plants, and then just replant them in your fresh soil.
If you wanted to be extra sure that you were getting all your weeds, you could do the weed barrier method with paper sacks, and then put a dark colored tarp or some black plastic over the entire bed. Several days of warm weather will do a pretty good job of cooking all of the plants plants and seeds below the tarp.
I Layed down cardboard and covered with rocks to keep weeds from vowing along one side of my tree line. I don’t (intentionally ) water it, but it does get over spray from sprinklers and of course rain. Has held up for a couple of years 😁
I just did it in an area between my fence and the tree line that has a drip line.
now… the area with the trees and small plants… I need to get out and get weeded 😆
I just did it in an area between my fence and the tree line that has a drip line.
now… the area with the trees and small plants… I need to get out and get weeded 😆
Sorry I never replied! Things got super crazy with working the Kentucky Derby this year, and trying to get things caught up. I am so behind on everything!
So we were at Lowe's on Sunday getting some wood to continue working on the goat trailer and get it useable again. I picked up some of the inexpensive weed barrier and yesterday put some of that down and tried to weed out the existing flowers. Some may not make it as I had to transplant them, but we'll see. I have a LOT left to work on so it will probably be next week before I can get it done as we may go to a goat show this weekend and need to work on getting the goats ready for that.
I wish I had gotten before photos of the section I've been working on, but honestly it was so embarrassing.....lol!
I'm wanting to pick up a truck load of mulch to put over the weed barrier, but again it will probably be next week before I can do it. I will make sure when we get ready to start on the rest of the unkept mess to get before/after pictures. I knew it would be bad, but whew! Not to mention how everything spreads each year.
So we were at Lowe's on Sunday getting some wood to continue working on the goat trailer and get it useable again. I picked up some of the inexpensive weed barrier and yesterday put some of that down and tried to weed out the existing flowers. Some may not make it as I had to transplant them, but we'll see. I have a LOT left to work on so it will probably be next week before I can get it done as we may go to a goat show this weekend and need to work on getting the goats ready for that.
I wish I had gotten before photos of the section I've been working on, but honestly it was so embarrassing.....lol!
I'm wanting to pick up a truck load of mulch to put over the weed barrier, but again it will probably be next week before I can do it. I will make sure when we get ready to start on the rest of the unkept mess to get before/after pictures. I knew it would be bad, but whew! Not to mention how everything spreads each year.
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