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Red ants cover the floor of my garden. The dirt looks as if it is moving due to the large yearly increasing number of them.

How can I cut down the number of ants from my garden?

So my boyfriend purchased a house in October and I was all excited because even though the yard is small I would be able to plant a garden and some trees. Now I am not fond of worms but I can deal with them, but I really hate snakes. We found one in the basement about a week or two ago. I pretty much had a panic attack, but my bf convinced me that it was just a fluke since we live in a city and near the beach. So I relatively go over it. So I noticed while trying to clean up the yard that there are a lot of snails and lots of dead ones too. Odd, but okay. So now I’m digging up some areas that were left neglected planning on putting some mulch and shrubs, I’m digging and raking then all of a sudden I see two snakes in the dirt!!! I’m freaked out. How much more crap could possibly be in this yard!!! I’ve never had this problem before and I’ve lived in two other places!!! I just purchased wood for a raised bed planter, and I am petrified at what I am going to find in that yard! And 75% of it is concrete, go figure.
By infested I mean, infested with creepy crawlers more than the average yard

Making furrows with homemade bed former

How to build a sustainable, green, and eco-friendly pumpkin garden that anyone could do utilizing post-consumer recycled raised beds. These beds are from Greenland Gardener and the family built them in about 30 minutes. Very easy to do. Find more information and ideas on green living with Shawna Coronado at www.shawnacoronado.com. *Note — Because the FTC requires it, I am noting that Greenland Gardener sponsored the Double Bed Raised Garden. Botanical Interests sponsored the pumpkin seeds. Organic Mechanics Soil sponsored the soil used for this project. However, I would use these products even if they had not been sponsored — I like the them.

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*If you like the video please subscribe and hit that thumbs up! Hey folks, thanks for stopping in again. Here’s another quick tip to help you along with your balcony garden. We’re going to talk about creating a soil mix for your container garden. However this can also work for raised beds. There are many soil mix recipes out there, but after much research this is what I came up with. The mix seems to have a good combination of aeration and moisture holding properties while also being readily available in most big box stores. Here’s the recipe: 2 parts Potting soil 2 parts Sphagum Peat Moss 1 part Perlite Don’t settle for dumping a bag of potting soil in your containers! This little bit of work is well worth the reward. Your plants will thank you for it! Hope that helps you all out. Get out there and take steps toward preparedness and self sufficiency! Remember guys and gals…Plan for Tomorrow so you can Live for Today! Scott “TheXGrasshopper”

I built two raised beds with 2"x12" PT lumber. Knowing that PT lumber should not be used for edible gardening, even thought the manufacturers have changed the chemicals to a copper compound. I initially lined the entire inside of the box with 4mm plastic sheeting and stapled to to the top edge. I did not realize that the plastic would become brittle and shred.

I am wondering if I could pull the dirt back and paint Kilz on the inside of the box to seal it. Is Kilz non toxic? Is the new PT lumber really dangerous as it leaches into vegetable garden soil?

I have about 60 square feet of various raised beds and everything has been wildly successful except my root vegetables. Beets, turnips, carrots, even radishes! they don’t grow well, and are very undersized when I pull them. Last season I tried adding composted horse manure which everything else got a big boost out of, but not the root veggies. Next month starts "season" here in mid Florida zone 9 and I really want to solve this so we can have all these great veggies with the same abundance the rest of my garden has supplied. My gardens are 16 to 20" high, the bottom is filled with various (free) compost, composted manures, dirt, etc but the top 8-10" is Mels mix, with 1/3 each vermiculite, peat and various composts. As I said, everything else has exceeded my expectations – I still have some (browning rapidly) tomatoes in mid August, and they are usually gone by early July due to the night time heat.

any help will be greatly appreciated!

Part 10 – GameChap and Bertie go fishing in an attempt to lure in those dastardly sheep, but are interrupted by a jolly thunderstorm! What will come of the courageous crafting chaps? GameChap and Bertie tackle that most fiendish of challenges, the Survival Island map, in this rather joyous Minecraft outing! Can the two crafting gentlemen survive, marooned upon a desert island?

How to build a sustainable, green, and eco-friendly garden that anyone could do utilizing post-consumer recycled raised beds. These beds are from Greenland Gardener and the family built them in about 30 minutes. Very easy to do. Find more information and ideas on green living with Shawna Coronado at www.shawnacoronado.com. *Note — Because the FTC requires it, I am noting that Greenland Gardener sponsored the Double Bed Raised Garden and Garden Planting Kit. Organic Mechanics Soil sponsored the soil used for this project. However, I would use these products even if they had not been sponsored — I like the them.