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
Buy a couple of gardening books Bob, they're a great help. Rosemary
grows into a large shrub depending upon your climate. I can plant a very
small potted one in my yard and within two years it is four feet high
and four feet wide. If you want ground cover plant creeping thyme,
smells good when you walk on it and keeps the soil in place.