2013 – Page 2 – LandRemedy Blog

August 2013 – Wimpy Little Knotweed Resprouts

photo of red resprout — A wimpy little knotweed resprout. It’s not even green.

photo of green resprout — A not-so-wimpy knotweed resprout. This one is green.

photo of wimpy resprout — Another wimpy one. I’ll bet this one sprouted from a little fragment of rhizome that we missed. It was easy to pull up.

July 2013 – Paths Mowed in Back Acre

After we first acquired the “back acre,” we only mowed paths through it. We wanted to disturb as little as possible. You can see the brush pile and the wood chip pile:

July 2013 Pretty Yellow Daisies Bloom Over Former Knotweed

photo of slope with daisies — Scattering seeds, of plants that had already bloomed and dried out, over this area the year before worked!

Great Blue Heron a Frequent Visitor

photo of great blue heron — On more than one occasion, Steve witnessed a great blue heron swallowing a frog whole. It seems the camera is never there when you need it!

The Journey of the Phragmites

photo of tractor — Step Two: front-end loader

photo of brush pile — Step Three: brush pile

Deer Ate Our Green Giants

photo of arborvitae — Green Giant arborvitaes are supposedly deer-proof, however, the tender young foliage here was evidently irresistible.

Just Passing Through

photo of deer — We planted elderberry shrugs in the back acre twice, just for the deer. However, none of them survived. They got eaten!

June 2013 – Glad We Planted that Dogwood

photo of butterfly — This is one of the reasons why it’s good to plant dogwood.

June 2013 Visitors from the Animal Kingdom

photo of groundhog — This big groundhog loves to munch on milkweed.

photo of caterpillar — I think this is a future swallowtail butterfly, on a rue plant by the driveway.

photo of frog — Creeping phlox is good camouflage for this frog.

June 2013 – Typical Knotweed Resprouts

photo of knotweed stems — Knotweed that was cut and treated previously; note the green stems, still alive.

photo of knotweed resprout — Knotweed, previously treated, now resprouting, is reminiscent of epicormic growth on a tree.

photo of weed pile — After lots of rain, the weeds were easier to dig out.