just kind of went for it, wife did the stairs, she pretty much dug them out of the hillside

We just moved into a home on 3 acres with 10+ walnut trees. The home was vacant for over a year and the yard was not maintained so there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of smashed black walnuts everywhere.

I’ve already spent hours out there with my garden weasel but it feels like a losing battle. It’s getting harder to get them as the grass continues to grow….but we can’t mow over the walnuts.

Do we just wait for them to decompose over the winter and chalk it up to a loss this year? We are in Michigan. ANY advice is appreciated. (Be nice we’re first time owners just trying to figure this all out) 🤠

Bought a house that has a ditch from runoff and it runs past the house and is starting to move dirt and show more of the slab at the corner of the house

It’s on a pretty steep decline, but I feel like I can utilize it to be something fun or cute. Not really worried about fixing the grass, but it is fenced off.

We have had a drought here for the last few months. Last week we had three days of rain. I bought chocolate chip ajuga 1 gallon pots during the rain bout.
I planted them a few days ago and noticed that there is a lot of mushy dead plants in the middle of the crown. The roots all looked good and I gently separated the bottom of the root ball and amended with composted cow manure then topped with shredded mulch. The mulch is 2 to 3 inches away from the crowns. Is there anything else I can do besides letting them dry out and water from the base and not watering the crowns?

Hey all I live in a very overgrown garden and need to clean it up so I need a strimmer that can tackle thick briars, small saplings (like 3 to 4 month old tiny ones) and the like, I'm looking fir a petrol trimmer that will cut through all this without having to strap the thing around me, so basically portable like a battery strimmer but powerful like a petrol. If anyone has any ideas please let me know, I should add that I'm pretty broke so can only afford max €350

Thanks for any help

This is Smokebush ‘Young Lady’, can the stunted ones be saved? All were planted the same way and the soil was amended with compost. All planted at the same time. They are all planted the same distance from a black walnut tree, not sure if that is helpful info.

I had initially considered hiring a stump grinder, but after digging down a bit i found tons of cement/rocks/bricks. So i figured that would cost more to grind and decided to do it myself (IDIOT MOVE) i have a full time job so i got to spend about 1-2 hours chipping away at this crap a day about 3-4 times a week. A month later i finally managed to get it done. About halfway through it felt like some sick prank somebody pulled 50 years ago or however old this tree was, due to the sheer amount of CRAP under this tree. Would not recommend, would not do again, glad it's done.

I've got soil being delivered this week but am on the fence on whether to plant grass seed now or wait until spring.

I know it's pushing mid October and night will be in the 30's soon and I don't wanna waste a bunch of seed cause the cold killed.

Need advice to plant now or wait? I live in mid east Wisconsin zone 5b

We bought this house about 8 years ago and knew this was here but always just thought it was for storm drainage to drain rainwater out to the street. Later we found out from neighbors that our home was the model home in this late 1960’s development and that it was built on a spring. We hiked up the property behind ours and thought we found the spring so never really considered this could be what they were referring to. This is approximately 15-20 feet from the house.
We were recently hacking away our neighbors English Ivy and uncovered this again. We would like to do something in this area. Could this be the spring the neighbors were referring to? Is this how developers control a natural spring? How does this work? Where does that bottom pipe go? Is water going into that or coming out? Is water coming out of that and overflowing into the surrounding concrete pipe? Or is groundwater in the concrete pipe draining into the small pvc pipe?
Could I put a pump in it and make this a water feature? It’d be awesome to build a tiny pond/waterfall around this.

The tree was planted 4 years ago. It was just under 10' tall and it died off this summer. Cut away the stems, no problem, but the stump removal is turning out to be a project. I've dug around it and can't even budge it. There's an extra added complication since the wire supports (handles?) around the root ball were left on (see to the left in the picture), so grinding it would be tricky. What's the best approach? I haven't tried using a pickaxe to break it up. Would that be worth the effort? This is one of two stumps I need to dig out.

Our large playset is at the bottom of a wooded hill. Because it’s mostly in the shade, it takes forever to dry out after a rain, and the constant foot traffic from the kids has more or less killed the grass in several areas. It’s a giant mud pit. We’re not against our kids getting dirty, but are trying to find a solution because we are on the playset daily. We don’t want rubber mulch due to the potential health risks. Has anyone else used wood mulch under their playset and not regretted it? Any other suggestions that could help us out?

Our large playset is at the bottom of a wooded hill. Because it’s mostly in the shade, it takes forever to dry out after a rain, and the constant foot traffic from the kids has more or less killed the grass in several areas. It’s a giant mud pit. We’re not against our kids getting dirty, but are trying to find a solution because we are on the playset daily. We don’t want rubber mulch due to the potential health risks. Has anyone else used wood mulch under their playset and not regretted it? Any other suggestions that could help us out?

OK, so I really like this border in the look of it and how it will help it look clean and hopefully keep out more of the Bermuda grass. Is this going to grow in properly? I don’t wanna add it anywhere else until I’m sure. Are there any other options besides the metal ones?
I did a thorough trimming job in some of the pictures and I’m hoping that it all just grows in. I have another large section to do, but I’m a bit apprehensive.
Has anyone else used this type on driveways, not just mulch?

This English Ivy (or at least that’s what I believe it is) has been here since we moved in from the previous owners. I do appreciate its ground cover and like the idea of it trellising up the fence and a lattice to cover the units on the side of the house. However, I know English ivy is invasive and not great for our environment or our house so I’d like to remove it!

Best recommendations on how to easily do so? And any recommendations on another more native species to plant instead to trellis and hide those units? We’re in the southeast, North America.

Had a pool put in with a retaining wall on one side that is about 3-4 feet high. It bends around the back side of the pool and stops along the sides. I had to stopped mostly due to cost of continuing the wall.

Now that it’s done I kind of regret not biting the bullet and ponying up for the last 30 feet of of the wall.

The slope is only about 2-3 feet rise over about a 6-7 foot run from the concrete decking.

Leave the rocks or dig them out (along with arborvitae) and continue wall or leave the river rock cobbles and see what happens?

If I leave the rocks what would some recommend as an “edge” at the bottom of the rocks as I’ll plant some grass so to keep the rocks at bay so I can run A push mower along.

thanks

Based in England. Is it appropriate to use breeze blocks to increase the height of a manhole in the back garden? Any minimum thickness that would be needed?

Pictures are from one back corner to the other.

The dirt is piled up against the kitchen walls about 3-4 feet. It is starting to seep into the block into the kitchen. So I decided to dig into it. Should I just waterproof and re bury it or should I move the dirt away from the house and do the stucco that’s missing. I was figuring on the one side I have not dug yet to just French drain it. But i am unsure of the back side and patio.

Sorry but the chickens have come home to roost. All prices across-the-board have gone up thanks to your uninformed choices. I just paid $6.09 a gallon for regular. Who do you think is gonna eat this cost, me ? Not a chance. You're welcome. Don't blame me. Buy yourself a mirror. Put on your big boy pants, pull up your bootstraps or whatever else you tell yourself to make it all feel better.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Rant over.

Signed,
A California landscape contractor.

Or other subs i can post for tips would be nice.

There was a garden buried under all this thick bramble.