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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

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What's Growing On, Beehaw? Weekly Garden Chat (beehaw.org)

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There are about a hundred potted perennials out on my front lawn right now as the latest wintry mix hits our area, and someone dropped off a huge box of cell trays and small pots to us yesterday. Some of them will go to our local library for their gardeners workshops and to prep for their annual plant sale fundraiser, some will go to the Master Gardeners program for their spring fundraiser, and I will attempt to find space for what we end up keeping.

What's growing on with you all?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's very spring here in the south, so I'm outside tending to the yard-wide flower bed we set up last year. I've been battling the grass growing back in it for a while and almost gave up after the brutal summer last year killed off half of my plants. I found that using saved up cardboard and mulch keeps a lot of the grass at bay. So that's been my project for a few weeks now, slowly filling the whole bed and revitalizing the whole thing.
As a small reward for the progress I've made, I picked up a few perennials at the store the other day: salvia, lantana, and some consumables - dill, basil, and peppers. They look really nice in the parts of the bed I've already tended to :)