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Will fire ants eat through plastic sheeting like tarp or pond liner? Considering digging out all dirt and turning it into SIP (Sub Irrigated Planter) like my blue barrel planters. I have leftovers on the irrigation pipe and weed cloth. I would only need to buy the plastic sheeting.

That is the article I found when I looked at container trees! Thank you for the book suggestion. Articles quoted say it won't work for container tree but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. My anna apple tree tag said it would be 15ft tall. I need to keep it at 7' tall and 40" wide one dimension to...

I think the spinosad drench worked or its the relative cold (53F). Stirred the top couple of inches and no fire ants attacked. They are making new mounds along the edge of the bed. I will repeat tomorrow along with edges. I did stir up this little guy. I moved him to the apple barrel. Things...

Hmm I looked up loquats and found references that they get 20 - 33ft tall by 20ft wide? I'm not sure about dwarfing it by keeping it container bound. I'm afraid I'll kill it... I still would like to come by and hi next time we are up towards DFW.

Sounds neat! We could swing by sometime from visiting DFW. Let me ponder... How big is big? Will a 22gal barrel work?

So that lovely 2'x 6' garden bed is a single fire ant mound. Tried half gallon of spinosad drench on Texas A & M handout. Hopefully I can kill them and get my bed back.

So fence is up around garden. Yes the kids could belly crawl underneath but hopefully they will not. Going to train pretty pollinator attracting flowers on it. I need barrier so kids don't pull all the flowers off trees (Cassandra) or dig up everything (Dominic).

The basic $15/ 3' wide roll worked great for me last year. If you remember I ripped out the sod in corner of my yard and then failed to get anything to grow. I put down the weed barrier with U Staples made from the surveys flags. Then did nothing with the area. The tinny leaved weeds grew over...

Not sure where Baymule is located. I'm on the water side of Houston Texas metropolitan area. Average temps is 34F to 97F.

It is an Anna apple. Supposedly self pollinating and low enough chill hours for gulf coast.

So my entire garden consists of raised beds. A mix of 24" plastic barrels and 18" tall wood bed. The barrels are super smooth so don't seem How do I get the bug predators like toads and skinks to climb in and eat to their hearts content? I have plenty of tiny frogs, skinks, etc in the...

I've had it one year. Not sure how old they are when they sell them. It hasn't grown much with the apple tree took off.

Cardboard layer with help from kiddos. Then I laid down 1/2 cubic yard of mulch in 2 hours by myself. Little tired

Have a funny to share... Talking with my new boss about weekend plans. Said I was glad rain held off cause I was sheet mulching my garden this weekend. During conversation also mentioned I was a little wistful my youngest was potty training and my cardboard supply would dry up. She gave me this...

Glad there were no injuries! Hope the machines are easy to repair.

So weather is starting to feel spring like. Working on clearing all the dead vines from last year and prep for this year. I also have my local water spigot ready to go- hose, soaker hose, and tree subwater system plumbed in. Trenching across the yard by hand was a pain. I moved the strawberry...

Final report- cucumbers by the bucket load. Nothing else was edible. Going to start new thread for this year.

So been super busy with work and life. The garden has been toddling along. My orange tree is hanging in there but not getting any taller (the flowers are same size) while the apple tree is growing well. The blueberry that I sunburnt is growing back from the roots. Of the veggies only the...

May's been brutal so far between preparing for Process Safety Management audit at work, soccer three times a week, and life in general. My orange and apple trees are doing well. The strawberries and blueberries are meh. The cucumbers and watermelon third try have died. I happy that two of my...

Do you think these are big enough to go outside or should I pot into some cups and grow more? The overnight temps are staying in the 40F+ range.