guildfordcycads

Recently bought a home with a beautiful backyard, but it is completely overgrown. I feel overwhelmed with all of the weeds growing through the brick and gravel. Any non-chemical ways to solve this? I’d love any recommendations.

About 7 pepper varieties, 4 varieties of tomatoe that are still green. huge sweet potato patch, tons of wildflowers, not nearly as many melons but getting plenty of cucumbers, shishito peppers and like 80 onions so far. Lots of kale a wild garden lettuce. Good amount of herbs And more basil than I care to admit…

Has anyone here experimented with picking off the bulbils when they start to for to see if it has an effect on the growth of the main onion? Like how some cut garlic scapes for better garlic cloves… I have a bunch in my front yard and pulled the growth off of one clump last month. Guess I’ll see what happens.

Our two apple trees have been suffering from leaf curl most of this season (zone 5, Wisconsin). It looks like a sign of underwatering, but it has stayed that way even after heavy rains.

Any thoughts on what could cause this? Too much root zone competition? Pruning too heavily? Something else?

Thanks!!

People will say that green leaves will take time to decompose. But so will alfalfa meal! So why is one fertilizer and the other not? Is it a simple function of surface area, and if ground well enough, green leaves can become fertilizer?