California Gardening: Daily Walks - 3, 0 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
I got some explaining to do here. When I had the gh set up over the pool, I had enough space to leave some bare ground. Well, you know how weeds are. I have tried the pre-emergents, and they work to a point, and I've had to use Round up. I don't like chemicals and the rotten weeds came back anyway. So I decided to collect all those adverts that come in the newspaper and recycle them. I placed them on the ground in that narrow (PITA) dirt strip. Then I put potted plants over them.
At the time I was still fighting (and still am) those lousy Mealy bugs. (They are only on my Hibiscus right now. And due to die very soon!)
The flood covered the newspaper ads with dirt, you can also see some of my drip irrigation lines. It's so much easier to have them on a drip system than to try to hand water all of them every day. Thanks to KC's smart DH, my DH had them set up on an auto timer for me. : - )