Comments on: Home Depot wants to give one lucky ITGO reader $100

By: Joanne Minsky

Joanne Minsky — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:05:40 +0000

Laying Landscape Fabric was just what I was looking for. I have a small koi pond (3×5) in the corner of my back yard, with a dry river bed flowing from it past planting areas to my patio. Problem is, I didn’t think about the weeds before I put in the river rocks. Now I know how to solve the problem. I’m going to rake up all the rocks onto the patio, lay down the landscape fabric, and put the rocks down on top of it. I’ll be able to cut the fabric to the form I need. I’m also going to use it when I re-do my walk way on the other side of the garden. I have beautiful stepping stones and creeping weeds. This will no longer be a problem by the end of this Summer. Thank you for the idea. Problems solved.

By: Natalie Jones

Natalie Jones — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:46:38 +0000

My choice would be building an island bed. We built our house last year and are still trying to get grass and landscaping established. We have several places in the yard that we can’t get grass to grow so building an island bed would make these areas look better. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:48:19 +0000

Hi, Colleen — I would love to build some raised garden beds for vegetable garden. I also am planning on creating garden paths, along with garden beds, prepping soil for buffalo grass, and… oh the list goes on!

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:13:20 +0000

Hi Colleen! I would choose the Building an Island Bed. I have areas in my lawn where the grass is patchy. I would love to replace that with additional flower beds. The less lawn to mow, the better!

By: Carol, May Dreams Gardens

Carol, May Dreams Gardens — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:18:04 +0000

I would re-do some of my raised beds in the vegetable garden!

By: Reé

Reé — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:00:57 +0000

I’m interested in the pavers project and the landscaping fabric.

By: Flee

Flee — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:19:58 +0000

Hi Colleen, I visited the Home Depot Garden Club Website and checked out all the DIY garden projects and the two that jumped out at me right away were Determining a Problem on Your Lawn and Grow a Putting Green. Our lawn has only had a few good years, 2002 and 2003, when we had Tru-Green Chemlawn. I noticed right away that we seemed to have fewer butterflies and after they fried my lawn and killed a bunch of perennials and shrubs when we were out of town in 2004 that was it. Fast foreward to today and there is some grass with the clover, creeping charlie, queen anne’s lace, dandilions, black-eyed-susans, thistle, bind weed, I’m sure I’m forgetting someone, that covers the soil here. The Putting Green would be for my dear husband who is always getting dragged into my “help the neighbors” projects.

By: susan harris

susan harris — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:16:03 +0000

Okay, I pick the garden path and have my fingers crossed that Emily finds me!

By: susie

susie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:24:46 +0000

I’d like to learn how to install pavers in sand. After that replace an existing border with drought tolerant plants.

By: linda

linda — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:35:31 +0000

I’d do the vine-covered arbor. I have the perfect spot for it, and have been working on convincing DH how nice it would be.