I planted two plants (red and yellow sweet) bell peppers this spring in my garden with good mulch and drainage, and I don't over water them. I also make sure they get good sun exposure- but what could possibly cause the leaves to go limp? They are not falling off, just getting slightly curled and limp and a little yellower near the bottom of the plant. My yellow bell pepper plant has two small fruits, and the red one hasn't even flowered yet. The daytime temperature is around 82 f, and the nighttime temp is near 55f. Any help? Thanks!

I have a rose garden and I was told by a friend that if I put down pine needles instead of mulch it will kill the weeds and grass but not my rose bushes. I also have a few different types of bulbs, will they work with that as well?

This is my 1st. time gardening I live in Arkansas. my plants are full grown and I have an empty flower bed I bought 3 tulip plants,1 flat of dianthus?, some petunia's,pansies,potting soil and cypress mulch. can anyone help please!!!

I have a truckload of composted horse manure. I put one wheel barrel load in my compost tumbler and the rest I put in my worm compost bin. I didn't want to put it straight into my garden even though it was already composted. I have been told to mix one part horse manure to five parts compost and work it into the soil. Using straight horse manure as a top dressing will likely damage or kill your plants. I want to use the horse manure in a blend mixed with pine fine bark, river sand, composted leaf mulch and soil. I am trying to find the right mixture ratio of each plus any other ingredient ideas or formulas for a super garden potting soil. Got potting soil recipes? My compost tumbler is very large made out of a 4 foot in diameter 7 foot long plastic culvert pipe with doors on each end. In it I will be mixing grass clippings and mulched leaves with the horse manure and river sand. It takes about 14 days to cook.I may have worded my question wrong. Mulch is topping for moisture retention. I should have said, What is the proper compost mixture to dirt ratio for the garden? or Can I replace the garden dirt completely with compost? The garden use mixture (1 pt sand) (1 pt bark) (3 pt manure) (3 pt leaf) plus lime sounds right. Could I replace the garden soil with this or mix it half to half. Right now my garden space consist of 6 holes 2 foot apart in the old asphalt 2'w x 4'L x 1'D. This is very old commercial property I had to dig through 3 old layers of asphalt an gravel. Garden space is fought for on this property. Eventually I will add more holes in the garden area. This is a Square Foot Gardening style but the old asphalt will serve as my walking paths between the planting beds.What benefit other than adding a nice looking border does raised beds offer?With the perfect pH of well composted blend with the added lime I doubt I will need to bother with a pH kit.

Last year we got someone in to put up a hedge around our grassed garden which is great but he only dug out the small area around the foot of each tree. This meant that the grass still grew around the trees so we had to get a strimmer to cut it. As its quite a large area this takes a whole weekend to do properly. We've decided it would be easier to lay woodchips/bark/mulch in this area which will be costly but will reduce our time sorting the garden.Do we need to dig up the grass before we lay the woodchips?Should we put down that black plastic stuff on the ground before the woodchips or is it unneccessary?Any other advice would be greatly appreciated as we spent so much getting the hedge installed that we dont want to be forking out for something else that's going to cause us more hassle than its worth!