Garden help?

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1. Sandy K says:

   February 4, 2010 at 8:38 pm

   Tilling the soil with a tiller is pretty easy. Tomatoes are very easy to grow. Cucumbers, sunflowers are easy too. Daylilies are easy, they are a wildflower. Just don’t plant too early wait until at least mid may. You can start ur toms inside now and plant them outside after the last frost. Fences work good. I use small chicken wire on some things.
2. Monkey Chum says:

   February 4, 2010 at 9:31 pm

   you get this 84,000 dollar machine it turns out the soil for you it covers 20m2 at a time.
   Maize and Bananas, Coconuts anything you want
   Get a natural predator a cat will eat any animal or get a real moving scarecrow
3. micahart2006 says:

   February 4, 2010 at 9:37 pm

   MN is zone 4 so it’s not the easiest, but you still have options. If you’re converting a grassy area to garden you need to make sure you rmove not only the grass but the roots as well.
   There are a lot of sites that will give you good examples of plants for your zone – also you can google “deer resistant gardens” etc. Sun vs shade is important as well – hosta, bleeding heart, pulmonaria, etc do well in shade and are all zone 4 – black eyed susan, liatris & queen’s lace do well in the sun – zone 4 as well. Those are all perrenials which means you don’t have to replant every year, they keep coming up. Annuals are plants that you have to replant every year. ZInnias, Irish bells, morning glories are some great annuals. You can grow them all from seed (cheaper). If you want to keep the squirrels from digging up your bulbs, here’s a trick that I use: buy a big cheap bag of daffodil bulbs and lay them on the top of your soil – they won’t bloom, but they are poisenous to squirrels (the squirrels know that) and so they won’t dig in that area. It won’t harm the squirells.
   Easiest thing – go to a gardening center, ask questions and take notes – then order your stuff online. Your local gardening center will usually only carry products good for your zone.
   Good luck!
4. crystal b says:

   February 4, 2010 at 10:05 pm

   you can take your soil to be checked at a nursery,they can tell you what you need to add, and what plants to grow.we have hung pie tins to make noise, owl statues, and nets
5. golden1 says:

   February 4, 2010 at 10:31 pm

   turning soil is where you take a shovel and break the the soil up, throw some fertilizer on top the turn it again, when planting look at what your yard gets lots of sun part sun or shade and buy plants according to that, if you you are planting veggies then plant marigolds around them animals do not like marigolds