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Rees Joined: 7/05/2007 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 5	Posted: Jul/09/2007 1:04 PM PST Hi! This is a great forum. We've bought our first house with an overgrown yard and garden space and I've already gotten great advice for roses and honeysuckle here. I've been gardening in containers in apartments for years, so having a yard and garden is great. We have a lot of work to do though! We've got a pergola over the patio and I am trying to train some climbing rose and clemitis up it. The grass is overgrown and the weeds... don't even get me started. We have very fertile soil and the weeds think so too!! But we have planted heirloom tomatoes, red peppers, assorted herbs and a runner bean 'teepee' and they are all doing great. The previous owners loved hostas- the verigated kind with the lavender flower stalks- and they are all over. Actually, I want to move some of them- they're just sort of dropped into areas with no rhyme or reason. I also have a bed of pachysandra that I want to take out- it is overgrown and icky. And a gravelly soil area that once had pavers over it, but is in a nice sunny spot for next year's veggie garden. We also have in front, some really sharp, ugly yew shrubs and more weeds again. But everything we've planted is thriving and I am looking on this as a 'work in progress and hoping to till out the veggie garden and start a compost pile by fall. Wish me luck!! Quote \| Reply \| Report

bensmom98 Joined: 7/26/2006 Location: Lake Champlain Valley Posts: 9121	Posted: Jul/09/2007 1:19 PM PST Welcome to GG and good luck! I too am planning on starting my first compost pile. Quote \| Reply \| Report

mbvirtue Joined: 3/01/2006 Location: McFarland (Madison), Wisconsin Posts: 4582	Posted: Jul/09/2007 4:29 PM PST Welcome to GG from north of the border...WI/IL, that is! You'll find (or already have found) that this site is great for advice, also great just to get in touch with a whole bunch of people who love to garden. I, too, have a hosta garden, and have been planting points of color since we moved in 2 1/2 yrs ago, some successful, some not. Fortunately the hostas in the bed actually have a pattern, but are now in rather severe need of division! (boy, I hated that subject in school, too ) Sounds like you're off to a great start, keep digging! Quote \| Reply \| Report

Hoeandhope Joined: 6/02/2004 Location: Statesboro, GA zone 8B Posts: 895	Posted: Jul/11/2007 5:44 PM PST Glad to have you Rees. Welcome from Statesboro, GA. Quote \| Reply \| Report

sweetlebee Joined: 5/09/2005 Location: Posts: 19587	Posted: Jul/11/2007 7:24 PM PST Hi Rees! Welcome aboard! Quote \| Reply \| Report

waltesar Joined: 7/20/2007 Location: FAR north Chicago! Posts: 26	Posted: Jul/24/2007 11:13 AM PST Welcome from just north of Chi-town in Grayslake! You got the fertile soil & weed part right - So DON'T feel alone!!!! Quote \| Reply \| Report

poeticpeony Joined: 4/04/2006 Location: NE Ohio, deck chuckin' fool Posts: 9437 Moderator	Posted: Jul/24/2007 5:38 PM PST Hi there, Rees! I'm a zone 5-er in Ohio. Quote \| Reply \| Report

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