On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:55:48 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

>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


One of my rosemary plants is about 5 feet tall. There may be some low
growing varieties that you would have to get if you want ground cover.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
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