I rent in an urban area and was given a backyard full of 6 foot tall weeds. Over the winter I managed to somewhat reduce their numbers and have been fighting them down since but also I didn’t really have any money for gardening so I just went with direct inground with a bag of miracle grow for fertilizer and some cheap mulch for bedding.

Pretty much a scraps garden. I have green onions and regular onions, garlic cloves that sprouted, bell pepper and jalapenos, a potato plant, 2 basil and 3 Thai basil, a daikon scrap I’m letting flower I hopes of seeds I can plant next year, and all my beans and peas on the fence over there.

I also planted a blueberry bush that I realized I really should have kept in a pot cause I realized how long that thing is gonna grow for.

I also threw potatoes under the bush in the far back that is doing pretty good and a strawberry I won’t ever be able to eat the fruit from because the critters get up earlier in the morning than me.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I have learned my lesson from the first time I tried to save a basil plant from slugs by sprinkling baking soda around it and have taken a way more hands off approach.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolOPEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I have so far made pad Thai and veggie focaccia and a quiche out of my veggies.
        So yeah, even if it’s ugly it’s working, so ugly pizza needs to be on the menu next.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      LOL I know you are being nice but the cheap cover set that I’m weighting down with stone that fell free from the leftover brick wall that separated mine and my neighbors yard.

      Plus the weeds that have roots that I have seen over a few feet long and thicker than my hose.

      I actually planted mint in the far back of the yard to know that it will simply win some time after I leave, and the next person can have a different problem.
      To many mojitos.

  • IMALlama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It’s all tradeoffs. I’ve been too busy with mulching to cover my squash vines and it’s vine boarer season here :( it’s on the list for this weekend.

  • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It might be worth you looking into a thing like Chip Drop to see if you could get a bunch of free mulchy stuff dropped off at your house.

    I’m on the 4th day of battling the pile that got dumped, for free, on my driveway.

    Depends on the space you’ve got, but it should help to choke out the weeds and improve the soil if you’ll be there for long enough.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      The neighbor I share a front stairwell with I think would kill me if I got a massive delivery of wood chip. I have heard the horror stories.

      But it’s insane the yard is less dirt and more a nest of weed roots. I actually managed to get the tiller attachment for a free ryobi weed whacker I got and that has made the soil at least there way more usable. But I have to weed for sure every week. The mulch honestly won’t stop them.