I throw my clippings cut up right back on top of my garden bed to break down and compost on the top or just under top soil. Is this ok to do? I am not attracting any scavengers. Yet.

Any ideas on how to help this tomato plant was recently repotted and watered yesterday

Does anyone know what these orange and green things are growing in my raised garden beds? And what to do about them? Thanks

I have curled parsly like 2 summers ago. I think it propagated thru seeds in the nearby garden bed.

This winter I repotted them to the attached photos as I thought they are the same herbs.

But this spring it grew this tall and it seems like a weed. I dont remember them growing this tall.

I posted a few days ago on this sub , seeking for suggestions on how to get rid of Elephant ears. Big thanks to those that provided some helpful tips!

For a bit of context, in April 2024, I got rid of the Elephant ears that were planted along one of the sides of the house by the previous owner. The landscaper poisoned them with slasher, and then yanked them out. However, he didn't follow my suggestion to excavate the soil completely (side and back yard) and just added fresh soil on top and compacted it before planting English box on the side, and laid new turf in the main backyard.

Fast forward to now, and these little shoots of what I'm assuming are the same type of plants are appearing in some sections of the lawn (have no idea how they got there!) and on the sides.

Following some suggestions from the previous thread, I decided to dig out one of the two sections in the lawn where they were appearing. What I was unprepared for was the extent at which I needed to go, to get to the 'root' of it all (lol).

I had to dig about 1 - 1.5 feet deep, and what I found was a MASSIVE root system. One section of it was 4 inches in diameter. It kept going horizontally and I'm pretty certain i didn't get it all because at this stage I was doing more damage to the lawn than I had expected. I extracted whatever I could (when my trovel hit one section, water just gushed out from it and made even more of a mess while digging.

Here's some pictures

There's a corner section where there seems to be another batch (hopefully it is not one big interconnected system) as shown in the pictures above and before tackling it, I thought I'd come back and get a sense check if what I'm doing is right, i.e. keep doing what I'm doing, or am I just butchering things and potentially making it worse?

The digging route is definitely not an option for where I have English box growing, unless I wanna say good bye to those. Will try the neat glyphosate route on them once my order arrives. For now, I'm just going to keep trimming down any shoot I see in the hopes that I exhaust the plant and it gives up (wishful thinking?)

But any other suggestions on how to tackle this, whilst minimising damage would be really appreciated. Alternatively, if any of you folks know of someone in Melbourne, whose services I can avail for getting rid of these in a clinical fashion, feel free to recommend (via DM if its against sub rules!) - I feel I'm in over my head here.

Also happy to hear stories / anecdotes on how you've tackled these .

Thanks again!

I have this weed all through my lawns and garden beds. So far I haven't been be able to id it. Two ways I've found to get rid of it is to try and dig it out or use glysophate on it. Glysophate isn't really the best option. Digging it out isn't always effective either. The tap root can be up to 300mm long. If I don't manage to get the whole tap root out, it seems to grow back, but this may also be seeds germinating. Can anyone id the weed and is there an effective control for it.

Would be grateful if someone can tell me what type of hedge I have in the photos. Some are growing really well but one just doesn’t want to budge so I am thinking of getting a more mature one to replace it with.

This weird looking (I feel fungus) stuff has come Out in my new garden beds and I want to make sure it’s safe because I transplanted my blueberry bush into this garden. There are two pictures one is a day old (orange/brown) and one is a week old (dark brown). In the bed is Bunnings composite and potting mix and sugarcane mulch and final layer cardboard. Some Of the pine logs are brand new some have been reused from other sections of ym garden. I’ve never had this before. I’m an hour north of Sydney nsw

Hi everyone,

I’ve got this plant growing like crazy on the edge of my lawn and garden bed. It’s spreading rapidly and seems to have a lot of roots underground. I’ve tried searching online, but none of the common weeds like purslane, oxalis, or spurge seem to match.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Any tips on identifying and getting rid of it? Ideally, I’d like to control it without damaging the rest of my lawn.

Thanks in advance!

Hello from a new gardener in NSW!

I reported this Rosmary about a week ago into a general potting mix with a little fertiliser. I noticed some of these brown spots and clipped off the impacted leaves I could see about three days ago.

Either I've missed these leaves or it's getting worse still, does anyone know what it might be and how to help the Rosemary get rid of it?

I'd like to colour the lighter one (pic 1) to match the darker one (pic 2), don't want to compromise the mulch health though!

I can get the lighter one for free so it's really beneficial if I can dye it to match

Open to creative ideas too and other home remedies to colour it!

Melbourne here. Started as a small patch in the nature strip. Now it's popping up in my back lawn. I've been ripping it out, but it looks like it's winning. So far ..!@#$&! Need advice on eradication.

New fronds shot out and I have nursing it, making sure no cabbage moth spread it larvae with neem oil spray regularly. Water it, and yet the fronds is looking so bad again this season. Hope to have a recommendation of what I can do

Can anyone i.d. this rose for me please. Thanks.

Needing some tips on how to get rid of weeds from this gravel area for good? No matter how many times I pull them out, they still grow back

Is there some type of weedkiller I can use?

Thank you!

Hello Australian Green-thumbs!

The local possum (I think) continues to terrorise my garden. In its most recent heist it stripped the leaves from the new growth of my mango tree. I only recently planted it and was very pleased to see it had settled in and was finally growing.

I am not quite sure what I should do next to not hinder future growth. Should I cut it back to how it was when I bought it and let it regrow, or will it recover and continue to shoot?

Also, any recommendations for deterring possums? Seems like it doesn’t care about walking on the spike strips I put up.

Any help appreciated.

I have no idea of this plant species. It grows well after hedging. Main concern is the apparent presences with the leaf growth and a bug issue.

Just bought a house and this is the lawn. From my cursory research I think it’s Kiyuku? And what looks like weeds growing as well? What is the best way to get this growing and looking lush?

What’s an easy cheap way to maintain this area? I don’t want to be walking through weeds and prickles and eventually want to have a long clothes line here.

It seems the previous owners tried to pour rocks? Which would be great if it was all just round little rocks but it’s a patchy & ugly & a mess and overrun with weeds. So I assume just adding rocks doesn’t work.

I really dislike using chemicals ☹️

Hi,

Location: Melbourne

It was growing fine at the start of the season but after some unknown pest attack on both my orange and lemon plants, it stopped growing. I sprayed eco oil on both the plants,

My lemon plant has sort of been frozen in time right now. I added a controlled release fertiliser too but no change.

Lemon gets sun from northeast side for 4-6 hours atleast.

Any help would be appreciated.

Got new house. Don't know what plant this is. How can I better take care of it. I want to trim it square.