Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

Anything you did to the ground? Anything reinforced?

Did you add gravel under the blocks?

Someone told me to wait until next Fall to build the shed. The ground has to get solid, hard after the excavation.

 

I didnt have to dig much ground was solid, i basically dug out the holes about block depth. I didnt worry too much about settling.

Its not new turned ground so i think it will be ok. If it was new turned ground id have let it sit and settle a year

 

I was looking at these. I don't know the height but I want tall block. Just in case of sagging.

 

Thats what i used

 

It all comes down to what you're building and where. Where you live you have to worry about frost layer ground shifting, where I live I have to make sure the house is high enough above the flood zone; we both have to worry about the structure being supported by the foundation or substructure. You add stone under a concrete foundation, or road structure to allow for proper moisture drainage cavities.

I am not sure how much experience you have with different construction materials or methods but I am glad you are asking questions. There are often "rule of thumb" applied construction habits and if you just blindly follow the flock doing it you might miss the purpose. In my opinion most "rule of thumb" items are there because of a learned outcome rather than scientific study this tends to create more 'well this is how I do it' methods, the local building codes have mostly addressed these items and clarified them because they want their buildings to be uniformly safe.

 

Did you add gravel for drainage, under the blocks?

 

I live in a flood zone. The house is built on a hill, plus the street is a hill. Everything flows downwards. Earthquake is every few years. Then hurricane season. My neighbor pitch his yard towards mine. I believe a 23 degrees pitch. Water is an issue, in a way.

The new walkway has 4" gravel then 4" cement. Water shouldn't be an issue, I hope.

I don't know if the house foundation has gravel underneath.

I like to ask a lot questions. I learn from someone else error.

Should I use a level on the ground for pitch before I have the shed built in that area? I don't want the shed in a pool of water or water flowing towards it

Since the land just done excavation and loam, hydroseeded. I have to wait. I thinking of having it rolled to compress the soil.

 

Put a U-shaped French drain around your greenhouse, with both ends pointing downhill. If you are in the flood zone.

 

I think I found the perfect spot. I was looking for the highest spot in the yard where the rain water pitch away from the building area. While it was raining, It was the driest area in the yard.

The landscaper is coming back to re-spray the hydroseed. While he's here, he going to run PVC to the gutter downspout then to the front yard.

 

it’s huge.

 

4 done 8 to go

 

Are you using the boxes as a raised garden box or composting? I seen them used as both before.

 

Genuinely asking. You know you can multi quote right?

 

I know.

When I replying to the same member I'll multi quote the reply. If I'm replying to more than one member I like to reply to each one individually.

 

Anyone knows a good low growing bush that add color for accenting a walkway?

I thought about these but I think something with color, plus doesn't grow much.

 

Hostas are nice but its not a bush.

 

I like these.




I also like these to.




Good thing Spring is months away.

 

Try cotoneaster.

https://gardenerspath.com/plants/ornamentals/grow-cotoneaster/

https://www.monrovia.com/be-inspired/cotoneasters-bring-winter-color-to-colder-zones.html



Many different varieties of cotoneaster, some of which are low growing, ground cover like. Good four season plant with interesting color, berries, leaf pattern, etc.

You could also try some low growing ornamental grasses, especially if the location doesn't receive a snow pile that covers the vegetation in winter.

https://www.tipsbulletin.com/grasses-that-stay-small/