Leonard wrote:

>> I'm *extremely* interested! It's just that I recognize my complete
>> inability
>> to keep plants alive.
>
> It's not a complete inability. It's a lack of passion. I'm cursed with
> it too. You ought to see my lawn. If I killed the dandelions, I'd have
> to reseed and pay attention. Not likely.

It's more than that; it's also a lack of knowledge. See below.


> I put a tomato plant in my front flower bed this year but neglected to
> support it. Well... I supported it with a piece of rock. I got a couple
> of tomatoes out of it, but most were beaten to death against the rock
> during wind events.

I didn't know that tomato plants *needed* to be supported. That's what I
mean by lack of knowledge. I know that plants need water; that's about the
entirety of my gardening knowledge.


> Where I live, I could make a border of rosemary and thyme without
> effort. They're perennial in my outside flower pots, so I assume they'd
> be perennial otherwise. That'd be a border of rosemary and thyme between
> one patch of dandelions sparsely grassed and another.
> Say la vee or something like that.

Rosemary seems to grow easily around here, so I'm thinking of trying to
plant some as ground cover in a side yard. But I don't know how quickly it
would spread. How many plants would I need to start off with? Does the soil
need to be more or less acidic? How often does it need watering, and how
much water should it get when I do water? Really, I know next to nothing
about gardening, and that's why plants die under my care.

Bob