Garden Genie

If you could have one wish granted for your exiting garden (no wishes for more space!), what would it be? Better soil? More level ground (I'm thinking of Allison)? More sun? More shade? More rain? Help with the garden? Whatever.

Mine has changed over the years. Right now it would be to get rid of the deer. It is so out of hand the past few months.

What's your wish?

That's an easy one...A GREENHOUSE!!!!

Would you ever leave it in the winter? (The one wish does not include heating it!)

You mean that wasn't an all-inclusive wish??

Stingy genie.

instant maturity

For the plants, I assume?

Fully equipped greenhouse would be my wish.
I'll have a little chat with Sr. Genie.

I just want a garden helper, someone to help me haul and dig.

That's in the fine print section of the contract for the "fully equipped" GH.

Victor - yes, for the plants. Though perhaps I should wish it for the husband too ;-)

I'd like the serfs too but mastergardners.
Serfs now days dont know JACK about plant ID.
David-Paul is taking a risk, a;tho ancient ones did know more about planting and harvesting than the nobles.

Does a perpetually $1,000 gift certificate to Forest Farm count?

There ya go!!

Get rid of my neighbors -YES!!! Here is my house from the air! I could never find an ariel this good maybe because we are so far from the city? This had to be over 3 years ago as now we have a big garage to the right. The land is almost all cleared. You can see the long driveway going down in. This is my house ^_^

That's a good one, Thom. Sherrie - what's that large clearing next to you?

Brick pathways along the side of the house and around all the beds in the back yard. Done nicely with a good foundation and lots of used bricks in different sizes and colors and ages - a patchwork of bricks.

I want that one too.

The clearing to the right is a field to a farm. Farm fields all around up here.

A way to get the pasture grass out of the iris beds, without hurting iris plants.

That's a big problem for me too - turf grass in the beds.

How does it get there anyway?
Lawn mower set wrong direction?

Probably by runners.

ugg

Very.very hard to remove. Even tried a spray that's supposed to kill it, but leave the other plants alone. Didn't kill it. Not sure if the stuff was old or what.

I'm counting on mulch.
There are weeds that look like lanky dandilions in my new garden
As soon as I took up the contractors cloth and opened the soil to the sky, upmthey came after 20 years under.

I know! I know! I want a LARGE nursery bed. A place where I can put all the stuff I winter sow, etc. until they are mature enough to place in the landscape.

For instance, each year I have hundreds of bitty gladiola corms. I want to plant them in rows for a couple of years until they mature, and then I can share them with others. And lilies - I have lily seedlings, and rose seedlings - where can I put these until they are larger . . . sigh

Our beds are made in old pony pasture. However that doesn't explaine the grass in the bed that has our few arilbreds. Maybe a magic wand would work--need one with turkey & deer repelling switch.

Couldn't someone genetically engineer a bug that would only eat grass?

Weeds - humm maybe we should all wish for NO weeds? Love thy neighbor.....

previously i would have said better soil - however after the ice storm in December it is get rid of the remaining white pine that surround my property - soil i can have delivered and spread where it needs to go

Someone to help me put ideas/desires into a long-term plan that I can implement gradually. I guess that's a way to connect everything so that it looks cohesive, and not just a random placing of beds.

We can help with that!

Genie is not stingy - More then one.

I know and I appreciate all the 'help' I've gotten so far, but now I want a water feature and a screened area ( those nasty skeeters) and a veggie area and , and, and... breathe deeply. AAHHH!!! :)

I can help with the water feature.

Do you have a porch? When I was a child my dad screened in our porch then made storm windows for it so snow wouldn't ruin it in the winter.

I don't think that counts as a water feature victor ^_^

When it is raining and the windows leak - it does.