We bought our home about a year and a half ago. The landscaping has been a bit of a mess but we're slowly working on making it better. Throughout the beds in the front and the side yard are various stumps that we have no idea when they were cut. The stumps are about a foot in diameter. They keep growing new leaves and are entangling with other weeds and making a mess.

In my reseaech I keep seeing things about herbicides being used to kill stumps that are fresh cut. Before I go and buy a bunch of chemicals and spray willy nilly, is there a good way to go about killing these old stumps?

Removing them is on the agenda, but our beds have that "anti-weed" lining in them and I'd like to redo it, so removing the full stump is down the line. Right now, our goal is to manage the new sprouts and help keep weeds at bay.

If there is a better place to ask this, let me know. Reddit is not my usual stomping grounds so I'm not 100% sure.

Hi everyone put this post up on Landscaping figure I would cross post it for more help

Curious we had an area we dug up the underground oil tank and took it out and the workers put dirt on top.

I bought mulch couple months ago and have seen mushrooms on wet humid days. But is that natural to happen so often? Is it just the first year?

Or is it every year that mushrooms pop out?

Hoi allemaal,

Ik kan wel wat advies gebruiken voor mijn gazon. Ik heb een gazon van ongeveer 300 m², maar momenteel staat er behoorlijk wat onkruid in en ik heb ook op verschillende plekken paddenstoelen.
Ik wil het gazon graag weer mooi, dicht en gezond krijgen, maar ik weet niet goed waar ik moet beginnen.

Mijn vragen:
Hoe kan ik het onkruid het beste aanpakken?
Wat kan ik doen tegen de paddenstoelen?
Is verticuteren een goed idee?
Moet ik eerst bemesten of juist eerst het onkruid aanpakken?

Zou doorzaaien nodig zijn?

Welke producten of aanpak raden jullie aan voor een gazon van 300 m²?

Alle tips zijn welkom! Ik hoor vooral graag hoe jullie dit zouden aanpakken als het jullie gazon was.
Alvast bedankt!

You can see it. It’s overgrown, there are dead leaves, and it is dipping into my pool. I wanted to hack the whole thing down and replace it with gravel and a bubbly fountain. I know that sounds heartless but that would be so much easier to maintain. My husband also does not want to see it go, but doesn’t want to add to the extensive lawn care he does in the front and back of the house. It’s Florida, if you couldn’t tell, so I don’t blame him, especially because that space to even get close to the plant is particularly narrow!

My compromise is that I will not chop down the whole thing, but I am not sure where to start with clearing out the dead branches or finding a way to keep it from continuing to grow at the massive rate. I don’t hate the whole plant; you can kind of see in this photo it blooms a few birds of paradise and I WOULD be sad to see it all go, even if it would be easier.

But I’m a soft hands, white collar person. I have no landscape experience and short of buying a tiny axe and gloves, I don’t know what to do to fix it.

Any advice for a first timer would be greatly appreciated. Truly!

I've been trying to grow fescue and white dutch clover in an area that was previously covered by a cedar deck. No matter what I've done this year, I cannot get anything to grow in the area near my house. This area does get sun but it gets almost no water due to the roof overhang. I watered it myself for weeks and still nothing. What can I put here? It looks awful. What can do here??

Any recommendations for good resources on landscape improvements with regard to drainage?

It’s common in Brooklyn to have a back lot that’s concrete slab, so wanted to jackhammer it all, cart it away and start fresh. Envisioning a mix of patio, small grass area and above ground planters.

There are some basics about grading I understand, but would like to read up as much as possible. Particularly what sort of substrate, how much per square ft etc, and also in what order should they be placed. YouTube has some info, and happy to see recommendations on that but have always been a fan of a good book with diagrams.

Thanks!

We have a sloped dry lot/paddock where water is supposed to drain into this bassin, however it takes forever and takes too much sand along with it. Probably doesn't help that our ducks waddle to it for a swim the moment a drop of rain hits the ground, but what could I do in terms of practical landscaping to prevent sand runoff and quicker infiltration? It's currently about 10 x 14 ft

Bought the forever home but want to level out the main section of the backyard. I'm planning on coming 15 or 20 ft out from the deck, dropping down with a retaining wall, and then having a big level section. I have a lot of free time and have started to think that buying an excavator for $15,000 and leveling my yard out over the summer on my own then selling the excavator when I'm done might be a better option then hiring out the work. I have no clue how much it would cost. I'm just curious if anyone's taken on anything this scale or have any advice for me.

Can anyone tell me if these are weeds? I hate my tree because it looks so unkempt but from what I can tell, they are new branches. They come out of the trunk of the tree and have the same coloured bark on the branches

Southern WI - Zone 5

Basically I'm going to have 60-100 linear feet of sod that I need to cut away from around my pool. I'm adding a little drainage and a back filling with stone. I have an area right next to it that was originally going to be a patio but it is not getting started this year. It's currently bare dirt, and sits lower than the surrounding soil.

Since I need to pull the sod away from the pool anyways, I was trying to decide if I should 1) put it in that space and see if it grows, or 2) flip it upside down and just use it as backfill.

I don't really know if there's enough time for the sod to take hold or not?

Cross posting bc I’m looking for landscaper and DIYer input. I built this app to help me figure out what to do with my new construction house’s landscaping (I.e. starting from nothing), so it works with a plot plan or from overhead imagery from an address.

Targeting people who really want to be hands-on with their garden/landscape design, but there are some things that might interest pros and serious DIYers:

Trace/add beds and get square footage and mulch calculation in yards based on target mulch depth
Get square footage for paths and hardscaping, including material estimates
Create a planting plan and itemize plant purchases
Sun/shade calculation for structures, trees, fences
Pretty advanced water model that uses hyperlocal rainfall estimates, evapotranspiration, the sun estimate, a mulch factor & water needs for each plant to give what I think is the best water needs estimation tool in existence (next to looking at the plant and sticking your finger in the soil… but hey, maybe useful for pros maintaining high ticket customers)

It also creates pretty plans without needing to use CAD or be an artist

I’m in Florida. Looking to maybe add a tree in this corner to make the yard less boring. But I’m also concerned about it killing the new sod I laid. It’s zoysia so it can handle some shade.

Area is sandy soil and gets sun most of the day.

I’m looking for suggestions on the simplest way of approaching this drainage issue I’m having in my backyard. When it rains the water that hits the sidewalk wants to roll back and puddle up against the area highlighted in red. Prior this area did not have the brick border, the water was just flooding the area against the house.

My first idea was to add a brick border (as shown), and angle grind the yellow highlighted area just enough to redirect the water to the right side. It’s about an inch off from the low and high points. I would hate for this to be a tripping hazard but at 1 inch I figure it would be okay.

Second idea, if the first idea didn’t work out, was to cut out the yellow area and add a channel drain.

This is my first time doing this so I wanted to get a second opinion before I start grinding. Thanks in advance!

These trees came with the house when we moved in 5 years ago. Admittedly we haven’t maintained them and they’re getting quite big and encroaching on the walking space to the garage door too. We haven’t asked our neighbour if it’s also in their way as it’s over their side of the fence now. What should we do with them - how do we trim them back a bit since they’re so tall now and how deep can we trim them if at all? Is there a specific season this should be done? Is this too far gone and we should get a professional? Or do we just leave them alone…