May 2015 – Page 3 – LandRemedy Blog

August 2013 – Suspicious Sheep Sorrel

photo of sheep sorrel — Sheep sorrel is supposedly okay. It’s edible. However, I don’t trust it, because all of a sudden it seems like there’s a lot of it.

A “Good” Plant is Found

photo of primrose — A friend told me this is primrose. It has nice yellow flowers, and seems friendly.

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.