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RickCorey said:>> I *think* my game plan is to outline the beds with bulbs

Cool! Like highlighting or underlining.

Or like having soemthing blooming when nothing else is, yeah.

I read about a suggestion for detrmining whether your big lawn needed more lime or a particular nutrient. Take your fertilizer spreader, and spread lime or phosphate down only in one big word " L I M E " or " P " . Later that summer, if you can read that word in greener grass, you need more lime.

What a cool idea! I pretty much don't worry about my lawn, though... I have a 10ft strip by the street that is mostly henbit deadnettle, but the rest of it is a rich zoysia that seems to be in great shape, according to my favorite neighbor who mows for me. I might do that just for the wow factor, though. I could use the lime to spell out 'hi" for instance.

>> thanks for being sensitive in case I preferred another option.

Thank you! I just know that I don't know. I would say that It is a lot like gardening: bigger and grander than one person or any one description can fully encompass. I just hope that It is patient with my ideas about it!

P.S. For once, we've drifted back on topic. After all, the thread title is "OMG!"

Tell you what, I'm a big fan of the concept of a higher power, even as I consider myself a traditional Christian (ummm... some of my friends would say I'm a very UNtraditional Christian). But I can look back over the last 50 years and see exactly how things from my childhood led me to the yard concepts I have today, like an inexorable progression with only one possible outcome. It fascinates me (should blog about that, someday).