bogeymaker asked:


My garden consists of nice shrubs and moss in-between large stones. The critters seems to like to dig up the moss in search of grubs. I’ve tried chemicals to kill the grubs, but they dig us up nonetheless. I have a trap and catch them and have animial control relocated them, but we live somewhat close to the mountains outside of Los Angeles and there is a steady stream of racoons, skunks and possum.

Has anyone had good luck with fox urine? I’ve tried it and can’t say that it worked well. We’ve also tried cayenne pepper applications, which work for a few days until the sprkinlers soak the garden and the pepper is washed away. Plus, the pepper turns the green moss red.

Thoughts?

catbri34 asked:


We are planting our first vegetable garden and we arent sure when it is a good time so if anyone could help that would be great.

Maalru3 asked:


There is no standing water in my garden or flower pots, but when I go to turn the pots so they get rounded sun, tons of masquitos fly from behinde, and around them, same for my garden, If I touch anything, masquitos. Again there is no standing water. Any suggestions of what I can do to get them gone and keep them gone. Thanks so much for your help.

ademkazaz84 asked:


What is the most economic option for lighting the outside and the garden of a factory?

El Penfold asked:


I just found out that the teenage idiot next door has had a visit from the police on Friday because he has been shooting the birds in the garden. My wife feeds some blackbirds in our garden and we had noticed over the weekend that all but one of them had disappeared and the remaining one had an injured leg. Apparently the police did not recover the air rifle involved as the yobo Aaron denies possession of a weapon. I know his parents were on holiday last week and this may have happened whilst they were away. I have tried phoning them and knocking on the door but there is no answer even though I know they are at home. What would you do about this moron and what do you think the law says about it. I`m so mad I could strangle the whole fucking lot of them.

I have already written a few lines for the village magazine outlining what has happened.

Katie F asked:


I’ve just moved into a house, and back garden has been left to overrun. Lots of the weeds seem to be some sort of trailer, and have deep roots.

What is the best, and easiest, way to overturn all the ground and plant grass seed? I’m not sure the soil is very good quality, but I’m sick of looking out at it at the moment!
We have a lot of cats in our area- will they rip up any plastic bags etc I put down?

Amanda P asked:


I would like to start my own backyard vegetable garden, but I know the lawn has (in the past) been treated with herbicides and possibly pesticides. I thought I remembered hearing some “rule” about how long you have to wait for the soil to be rid of these before you can safely plant a chemical-free garden??

sam asked:


I have found a couple millipedes in my garden and want to know if they are good. Like a worm digesting dirt. Thanks for the help!

chuck asked:


How can revive the garden in August so that I will have flowers for this month and September.
How to preapare the garden for the winter and so that I will get the most next spring-summer

The Judge asked:


We just want to make a small garden maybe 8X10 feet to plant 3-4 tomato plants and a couple other herbs like basil etc. We live in a subdivision where people will be uptight about a fence unless it looks nice but we back up to a nature preserve full of deer, rabbits racooons etc.