Fw: [perennials] - now new landscaping

Well, yep!  the deer are going to be a problem.  I understand they ate a
neighbors garden and tore up the rest in a wondering-eating spree.  So, I
am not really in a big hurry to have something growing.  I will see!! 
shade in the front yard and all sun in the side and back yard.  will be
interesting to see what I can get from neighbors and etc. without having
to spend all of my retirement monies to have a yard which I will enjoy
walking out the door to.  (On top of that we have a septic system in the
back yard -- so do not want roots getting into that.)  What to do with
roots from the trees.  They spread out so far.  How do you get a
container garden going!  When all you can have may be the containers!  At
least that would be something in the yard!  Maybe just a lot of concrete
planters would look just fine if I painted flowers on them!  ha ha!! 
What types of containers hold water the best when they are sitting in the
garden.  What do deer like the most -- I understand day lilies will
suffer!  Oh and the grosses looking  slugs you ever saw!  black with two
darker strips down their back.  as big around as my middle finger and the
one I saw was 6 inches long at least.  I picked it up and threw it in the
sun and watched the slim come out of it as it tried to stay cool.  Mean
ole me, but very interesting from the scientific standpoint.  So this is
what I am going to be faced with -- haa!  lots and lots of work.  (Well,
I do know Hosta will probably not survive this menace!)  I will keep a
journal and hope to sell my secrets with I am 70ish!

I think if I plant food crops I will have to have an electric barrier of
some kind to keep the animals at bay.  I have thought about saving the
lids off the food cans I open in order to make a barrier that would cut
the critters (slugs).  But can I do this without injuring myself or
others?

thea
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:35:02 -0600
Subject: [perennials] - now new landscaping, was-RE: is this list still
here?
Message-ID: <000501c51c18$bdb55e60$6401a8c0@justme>

Good luck with your new garden! This going to be more work than you ever
imagined. Plan well and don't make all the mistakes I did <lol>....

So are you planning on doing a section at a time and any type of theme to
it?

Donna


> I would love to be planning my garden.  Instead I am trying to get a
> house reading to put on the market, so I can retire to Barkley Lake and
> start a yard by scratch.  The yard there is nothing but mowed weed
patch.
>  It's going to be work -- but at least will keep me going in
retirement.
> 
> thea

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