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kgbrott

Renovating a garden bed-need help

kgbrott
19 years ago

Hope someone can help me out. I have a large bed semi circle 25' x 12' - I have heavy clay soil in this bed so it's either too damp or hard as heck.

Anyway - last year I had a neck injury and the bed was invaded by weeds and grass. As I couldn't work in it at all. So this Spring I'm faced with Grasses in the back doing fine and 2 large spots of daylillys & iris at either end - the rest is all weeds.

Do I need to kill the weeds (roundup?) and rototil the whole bed again? Any help would be appreciated. If I use Roundup is there a waiting period before planting? Should I just dig everything up - remove the "turf" and redig the entire bed?

Also any hints on what plants will survive this bed? I've tried Butterfly bushes but they just died, iris have died back last year but came back again this year? Thought of just going with BE Susans, coneflowers they live anywhere!

Thanks!

Karen

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