I have seen some great ideas -- for use with and without a tractor -- on the boards and figured I'd check with you guys on this one (especially seein's how the wife thinks I'm absolutely crazy for thinking this to begin with)...
We have a relatively long driveway (850' so it's not *that* bad) that I want to dress up a bit. The plan is to keep it natural, so where the trees keep it shady I want to keep the ferns and other pretty little wild things.
Where it's sunny or where the nasty little (and big!) wild things grow, I want to tame things a little with some landscaping. I am considering throwing some nut trees in as well as other natural/indiginous plants from the area.
I also am considering on one side dressing the whole thing up with rose bushes and hot pepper plants for part of the run where the driveway doubles back and gets a lot of sun. It could be a dramatic sight when coming up the driveway... or a disaster!
We live in New Jersey just off the Delaware River about halfway down the state line and get pretty good weather.
The roses would definately weather the winters well.
Although I've read that the peppers actually grow as weeds in parts of our country, I'm not sure if any of you pepper fools out there have had any experience with having peppers as perennials (or re-seeding annuals if you can keep yourself from picking all the peppers!), and which ones work best for this sort of thing.
I'm also open to other suggestions for the area. It's will be a low (actually very low or no) maintenance area, just like the wildflower patch. It might get a little cleaning up every couple of years and maybe some fertilizer and lime tossed in every few years, but other then "rescue watering" that's about it.
Oh, and where does the tractor come into play? Gotta do a lot of scraping, some leveling, and haul out the stone and fallen trees to clean and grade things a bit... so there is seat time involved!
Any recommendations on peppers to try are welcomed. If you're in the area you can swing by and pick yourself up some at the end of the summer!
- Rich
We have a relatively long driveway (850' so it's not *that* bad) that I want to dress up a bit. The plan is to keep it natural, so where the trees keep it shady I want to keep the ferns and other pretty little wild things.
Where it's sunny or where the nasty little (and big!) wild things grow, I want to tame things a little with some landscaping. I am considering throwing some nut trees in as well as other natural/indiginous plants from the area.
I also am considering on one side dressing the whole thing up with rose bushes and hot pepper plants for part of the run where the driveway doubles back and gets a lot of sun. It could be a dramatic sight when coming up the driveway... or a disaster!
We live in New Jersey just off the Delaware River about halfway down the state line and get pretty good weather.
The roses would definately weather the winters well.
Although I've read that the peppers actually grow as weeds in parts of our country, I'm not sure if any of you pepper fools out there have had any experience with having peppers as perennials (or re-seeding annuals if you can keep yourself from picking all the peppers!), and which ones work best for this sort of thing.
I'm also open to other suggestions for the area. It's will be a low (actually very low or no) maintenance area, just like the wildflower patch. It might get a little cleaning up every couple of years and maybe some fertilizer and lime tossed in every few years, but other then "rescue watering" that's about it.
Oh, and where does the tractor come into play? Gotta do a lot of scraping, some leveling, and haul out the stone and fallen trees to clean and grade things a bit... so there is seat time involved!
Any recommendations on peppers to try are welcomed. If you're in the area you can swing by and pick yourself up some at the end of the summer!
- Rich