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Breathtaking! Really beautiful.
Radogast's Non-420 Garden Creation Thread
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I've identified an invasive species ALL over the extreme back of the property Lonicera Japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle)
I forced a wide path up the ridge of the rock ledge. About 100 feet of that was through the invasive honeysuckle.
In about a month I'll talk to the wife about softwood cuttings from our single blueberry Bush. It's like to replace the hillside with blueberries
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On second thought, a trip to Maine for wild blueberry rhizomes would be better
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Late last autumn, I had piled up a bunch of sticks that were trimmed to be non-branching.
I also started on a fence by augering post holes but had to quit when permasnow and permafrost set in.
Sunday, I wandered by with nothing on my agenda and started organizing the sticks.
I don't think I'm done yet, but I ran out of non-branching sticks
I had convinced the teenage boy to do several hours of trimming branches into straight sticks, but then his mom suggested he build a fence of his own design somewhere else
ALMOST!!!!
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I also started on a fence by augering post holes but had to quit when permasnow and permafrost set in.
Sunday, I wandered by with nothing on my agenda and started organizing the sticks.
I don't think I'm done yet, but I ran out of non-branching sticks
I had convinced the teenage boy to do several hours of trimming branches into straight sticks, but then his mom suggested he build a fence of his own design somewhere else
ALMOST!!!! Radogast
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Simply to die for. I love every part.
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Wednesday while I was at work, the triple trunk rotting tree that the Red bellied Woodpeckers and Hairy Woodpeckers enjoy so much decided to go in a new direction. It is now a two trunk rotting tree with a lazy log square across the path to the Dam Road
I'll be watching next month to see which birds or animals pay attention to the log in it's new, horizontal setting.
With no cart access, dam building activity is suspended. (The Dam Road is essentially a levee blocking the outflow from a small swamp.)
I haven't hit on the combination of water level and motion to discourage mosquito larvae yet, although having a pond with a pump shooting water in the air seems better than a field of shallow puddles and standing water. I'm going to investigate floating oil as a strategy.
I'll be watching next month to see which birds or animals pay attention to the log in it's new, horizontal setting.
With no cart access, dam building activity is suspended. (The Dam Road is essentially a levee blocking the outflow from a small swamp.)
I haven't hit on the combination of water level and motion to discourage mosquito larvae yet, although having a pond with a pump shooting water in the air seems better than a field of shallow puddles and standing water. I'm going to investigate floating oil as a strategy.
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Wednesday while I was at work, the triple trunk rotting tree that the Red bellied Woodpeckers and Hairy Woodpeckers enjoy so much decided to go in a new direction. It is now a two trunk rotting tree with a lazy log square across the path to the Dam Road
I'll be watching next month to see which birds or animals pay attention to the log in it's new, horizontal setting.
With no cart access, dam building activity is suspended. (The Dam Road is essentially a levee blocking the outflow from a small swamp.)
I haven't hit on the combination of water level and motion to discourage mosquito larvae yet, although having a pond with a pump shooting water in the air seems better than a field of shallow puddles and standing water. I'm going to investigate floating oil as a strategy.
The oil is very harmful to birds and doesn't work on mosquito larvae that well. They sell a product with Bt-I called Mosquito Dunks. They sell it in crumbles and you only need the tiniest amount on the standing water. I buy it on amazon and two containers lasts me all summer or longer. We have two ponds, but the water is moving and there are tons of toads and frogs and tadpoles.
You definitely lit a small fire under me. I took out my books yesterday. The ones I recommended to you. Noah's Garden and Planting Noah's Garden. These books are even better than I remember them. She is very into paths; all types of naturally occurring paths made by game birds, and wildlife.
Sometimes I wish this was all legal and we could start a traveling library. Mail books to one another and make their rounds. There is an idea I got from someone else to put a mailbox post by the sidewalk and put a wooden box with a small glass door on it and have a free library where I put books and neighbors borrow or take them, and put their own books in to replace them. I think it will start a little sense of community. It's so weird here where I live. Having grown up in Brooklyn, NY and knowing every neighbor in my building and the surrounding buildings was normal. Here, I have gone at least a decade not even having me the person two doors down! Weird. So this library may make people more friendly. I can try, right?
Here's an example:
Barely Bigger Than a Breadbox, but Teeming With Literary Treasures in Brooklyn (Published 2012)
What do you think?
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I think I may have recommended the books to Lester! My mind is shot.
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You had recommended the books. They are on my list
I seem to remember the author being on "All Things Considered" more than 10 years ago.
The lending library mailbox is good idea I've seen on Facebook.
My sister was in a group where they passed on boxes of books to each other. I'm in a chain of ebook readers.
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You had recommended the books. They are on my list
I seem to remember the author being on "All Things Considered" more than 10 years ago.
The lending library mailbox is good idea I've seen on Facebook.
My sister was in a group where they passed on boxes of books to each other. I'm in a chain of ebook readers.
Okay, good. I love to read. I need to take time to read many books on back order! I've had the books since new, but never read them. All Anne Rice books. I read them all, but nothing past Memnoch the Devil. I have to start over from Interview with the Vampire because it's been at least 15 years since I've read the books. Then finish and start all her other new books and about ten non-fiction books I have to read. I feel time passing by.
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I read all the Anne Rice vampire books in 2011. I dont recall reading any of her non-vampire books. The family went to New Orleans for Christmas 2012. Even though our hotel was in the garden district I never got the "walking in the authors footsteps" experience that I have had in other cities. Anne Rice's view of New Orleans is a vision strongest in her head and her writing.
I loved New Orleans and we all want to go back there for another Christmas season. Watching the recent season of "American Horror Story" and the first episodes of "The Originals" are enhanced by having spent time in old New Orleans. My wife and I had watched "Treme" before our trip. There are posts of New Orleans they captured "to a T." Our vacation was shackled by a sudden cash flow problem. We were able to enjoy the town "on the cheap" in a way most towns can't be enjoyed.
Back to Anne Rice, magnificent writer. I read about 200 other books in 2011, and she was definitely "series of the year. "
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Oh that pleases me. I've also read The Witch Chronicles, which tie into the vampire books via the Taladasca. At least that is what I recall that organization to be named.
Anyway, after reading the books many years back we did go to New Orleans and attended Anne Rice's private Halloween party. I dressed as a 18th century vampire and Mark was the mummy. While there, we also spent three days looking at real estate. A lot of wet, that much is true. Wet, wet, wet. And we went again in July that next year to look again. Ventured out into Metairie and Slidell. We fell in love with a house on the canals in Slidell and it is not there any more. I guess it's good we never moved there, but I adored the city. Have not been back since Katrina.
Here is a photo of the thing I found in the trash at Walmart. This summer I'm just going to put legs on it and use it as my outdoor shower enclosure with a hanging curtain. Next year I'll use it for ONE huge flux in the ground.
There is a flat of quarts of ferns which you are responsible for, so you have explaining to do to Mark, my husband! LOL. we call this sticky pot syndrome. Plants stick to my hands in stores.
A nice Datura wrightii for you opened this morning. These flowers are 8" across and 10" long trumpet.
Anyway, after reading the books many years back we did go to New Orleans and attended Anne Rice's private Halloween party. I dressed as a 18th century vampire and Mark was the mummy. While there, we also spent three days looking at real estate. A lot of wet, that much is true. Wet, wet, wet. And we went again in July that next year to look again. Ventured out into Metairie and Slidell. We fell in love with a house on the canals in Slidell and it is not there any more. I guess it's good we never moved there, but I adored the city. Have not been back since Katrina.
Here is a photo of the thing I found in the trash at Walmart. This summer I'm just going to put legs on it and use it as my outdoor shower enclosure with a hanging curtain. Next year I'll use it for ONE huge flux in the ground.
There is a flat of quarts of ferns which you are responsible for, so you have explaining to do to Mark, my husband! LOL. we call this sticky pot syndrome. Plants stick to my hands in stores.
A nice Datura wrightii for you opened this morning. These flowers are 8" across and 10" long trumpet.
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Nice ring stand.
I picked up a tube bender for PVC and thin wall metal pipe last fall. I had a vague idea I'd be bending tubes for greenhouse and arbor type structures. Given all the wood around, I probably won't be doing much with metal or plastic.
A very nice ring I'd definitely find a use for it
Thanks for the Datura photo. The first time I became aware of Datura was alongside a river in New Mexico in the shadow of long abandoned cliff dwellings. The digital rich Nightshade plays were believed to be descended from medicinal plantings by the ancient inhabitants. The field of wild Nightshade was beautiful.
My flower of the day is much more pedestrian, heritage New England Black Turtle Bean. This plant and four others were started in February indoors, the younger beans in between were planted outside early this month. White clover is interplanted for weed control.
I picked up a tube bender for PVC and thin wall metal pipe last fall. I had a vague idea I'd be bending tubes for greenhouse and arbor type structures. Given all the wood around, I probably won't be doing much with metal or plastic.
A very nice ring I'd definitely find a use for it
Thanks for the Datura photo. The first time I became aware of Datura was alongside a river in New Mexico in the shadow of long abandoned cliff dwellings. The digital rich Nightshade plays were believed to be descended from medicinal plantings by the ancient inhabitants. The field of wild Nightshade was beautiful.
My flower of the day is much more pedestrian, heritage New England Black Turtle Bean. This plant and four others were started in February indoors, the younger beans in between were planted outside early this month. White clover is interplanted for weed control.
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Baby Robins outside or front door this morning.
I've been watching them for about 10 days now.
I've been watching them for about 10 days now.
Whoa, I love this thread. This takes me back to my home state of Maine. 
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Whoa, I love this thread. This takes me back to my home state of Maine.
I would like to replace a hillside of invasive Japanese Honeysuckle with blueberry bushes.
Do you think wild Maine blueberries would grow on a mostly sunny hillside?
If you, it's it possible to drive up and wild harvest them, or do I need to purchase plants/roots?
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Thanks for watching Relaxed Lester.
It's a pleasure to have your input
It's a pleasure to have your input
I never actually grew a Blueberry plant personally, we would always use to just pick them in the wild and eat them as we walked.
I think they were selling different variety of berry plants at Home Depot, I just forgot to get one. They sell the plant and it looks like a dead stick in a pot, and it takes 1-3 years to see a harvest from one of those.
To be honest, as we walked through the wild, the blackberries seemed like most dominant and best surviving berry. I've seen big ole bushes of those. Some rasberry too. I just thought the wild blueberries and strawberries were just a bit harder to come by than the blackberries, atleast where we were.
I forgot their main berry is the Blueberry! Been too long lol
Maine State Berry - Wild Blueberry
Maine State Berry - Wild Blueberry
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