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ElizainHamtown Hamtramck, MI(Zone 6a) Mar 05, 2010

I have two areas that I am able to garden in. One is the small (8ft x 4ft) front yard and the other is a long narrow, partially shaded area beside my garage. If anyone has any ideas about my 2 dilemma's below, please give me some advice!! I should mention I live in Michigan, near Detroit.

1) The front garden was dug up for a new drainage pipe a few years ago. My planting bed is Ok on the left hand side (although partially shaded), but to the right, it is full of dry clay and bad soil, just below the surface. We have 3 yew bushes planted, and oddly the one on the right is thriving, the one in the middle is doing well, and the one on the left is still struggling. How do I "fix" the soil on the right so that it will allow other plants to grow, without ripping out all I have planted there already?

2) My garage garden is mainly wild (from the garage corner to the corner of the property) and sports some really nice ferns (I believe they are wild) and some flowering weeds, along with the day lillies that I can't seem to get rid of. The front end of the garage garden is my experiment, and is doing well. We have a beautiful ring of lavender and some nice Siberian irises. How can I tame the wildness in the back part of the garden? Do I need to roto-till it all under and start over? I would like to have a vegetable garden back there, but the shade is an issue there.

Can anyone help with soil advice and some advise for the garage garden?? I can post some pics later today after I get home. (And PS - has anyone dropped seeds randomly in the snow to see how they will grow?)

Thanks!
Elizabeth in Hamtramck

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