chewed up roses from underground?
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Something ate my Shagbark Hickory from underground
Comments (9)How sad. I had a ground squirrel or two take out a few Foster Holly and Oak trees that had managed to survive for me along a fence line on my property which borders a field where the farmer alternated growing crops one year, and using the field to graze cattle on the odd years. It certainly is distressful to watch trees at times struggle to survive, finally look like they managed to pull through, but only then to find that some critter has found, and devoured, or uprooted the tree's most critical parts. One good thing is that your tree is still small enough, that it should still be putting forth the extra effort to grow. Only question: is there enough root left to help your little sprout to recover? other option: In your area, do you have a nearby growing mature Shagbark Hickory tree that sprouts a lot of seeds? If so it might be better at this time to prepare another nursery bed by digging down a few feet and lining the hole with small enough woven, rust proof wire or fencing, which has been attached all along the seams sufficiently to keep ground pests from tunneling under and into the nursery bed. You could also extend the sides of the wiring up above ground and provice the same kind of protection that you describe doing earlier. Then next spring those mature trees which earlier had dropped seed, and those seed that have sprouted and grown about 4 inches tall; you could dig one or two, with keeping a handfull virgin soil around their roots, and immediately transplant them into your nursery bed. This should keep the underground pests from damaging you new sprouts...See MoreChewed rose buds
Comments (6)(Darlene - forgive me, not helpful I know, but I couldn't resist!). Since my smallest cat Lizzy has not been in your garden, it can't have been her, but she does eat rose and other flower petals in my garden! We take our three cats out for walks in the garden on leashes every day. The other two eat grass, like proper cats. Lizzy likes flowers! Yesterday I watched her go up to a large Morning Glory blossom, and contentedly eat the entire thing! She loves to eat roses, too. She stops after one, and we don't spray, so I let her. It is so funny to watch! She is not interested in the poisonous ones like the foxgloves - cats have a lot of sense! Sometimes she just sniffs them - like Ferdinand! Jackie...See MoreDig up underground rose shoots?
Comments (5)What you have is probably a rugosa called Pink Grootendorst. As you have found out, they spread. If you dig them up, unless you get all of it, it will be back. You will have to keep at it. If you want to establish one elsewhere, get as much root as possible. Preferably with some feeder roots, but not all suckering roses produce a lot feeder roots. Curl it up in a 1 or 2 gallon pot, add soil, and put the whole thing in a saucer of water in the shade. When it starts growing, it has enough of a root ball to come out of the water and be treated as a normal plant....See MoreInstalling underground water line to barn?
Comments (10)Before you begin any work on the project you are required by law to call to have all existing utility line locations marked. This is a free service but they generally require a minimum of a 48hr notice. The actual name of the organization that makes the survey varies from one location to another by example in my region one are calls it "Dig Safe" while in another area it is known as "One Call". You can call your local code enforcement office or any local contractor that does any excavation work, I.E. excavaton contractor, gas company, water company, plumber or electrician, and they will gladly give you the local phone number. They will be able to mark the location of any buried public utility lines which are on your property such as your electric line, gas lines, municipal water, sewer or steam lines, cable tv lines or commercial gas or oil pipe lines. Generally the public lines are only in the easements adjacent to the roadway but such is not always the case. By example, my sister has a 60 acre farm and there is a 16" diameter commercial fuel pipeline running across her property from end to end. Once again, this is a free service but if you fail to do it and you happen to damage one of those lines you can and will be held both civilly and criminally responsible for any damage that results from damaging one of those lines so I caution you to take this step very serious. The line to the barn must originate on the discharge side of the pressure tank which if I understand your description correctly is in the house. You should install a full bore type valve (ball valve or gate valve) where the line ties into the pressure tank or at any convenient point inside the house before the line goes through your footer wall. The line must be buried a minimum of 6" below the frost line. Your frost depth is 24" so your minimum line depth is 30". The line must pass through your footer wall and into the structure at the required depth and you must sleeve the pipe where it passes through the wall. To make a sleeve you first install a short length of pipe at least two nominal pipe sizes larger than the desired pipe through the wall and extending out 2" to 4" on either side. The sleeve is then sealed to the masonary wall by any convient means, mortar, tar pitch, expansion foam etc. After the desired pipe is passed through the sleeve the space between the OD of the desired pipe and the ID of the sleeve pipe is then filled with expansion foam. Operating a ditch witch is fairly easy but they tend to jump around a lot and even an experienced operator will refrain from operating within 3 or 4 feet of the foundation wall or within 5'either side of any buried utility line. For safety these areas should be carefully hand dug. Whether you go over or under the electrical line would be dependant upon the depth of the electrical line in reference to the required depth of the water line. This would be a judgement call once you have hand dug that area and located the electrical line or confirmed that it is below the depth you need. Also, in some jurisdictions buried electrical lines are encased in concrete. When encasing an electrial line in concrete they add a red dye to the concrete so if you happen upon any red concrete try to avoid disturbing it. You could install a Curb box type main shutoff valve at the barn end of your line in the same manner as a residential water service curb side shutoff but these valves are rather expensive and if you have the main shutoff at the house you really won't need it. Check the installation specs on your hydrants carefully. The actual valve of a hydrant is below grade at the bottom of the valve and when you turn the water off any standing water in the riser then backflows and discharges below grade. Genearlly they require a pea gravel bed at the base of the valve to absorb the water in the same fashion as a french drain. Typcially we use roll polyethelene pipe for this type of run. At the pressures permitted on residential water service a 3/4" roll poly line has a friction head loss of one foot of vertical static head per 100 linear feet. (-.434psi per 100ft). Your run is 200' so the friction loss would be approximately 1psi (not enough to be a problem). The change in pressure from elevation is determined by the total difference in vertical elevation from the source at the house to the demand at the barn. The change is .434psi for every foot elevation change. In this case the barn is lower than the house so the pressure at the barn end is actaully higher than the pressure at the house. When the line goes down then back up the pressure loss to the rise is offset by the pressure gain on the fall so that portion is self cancelling and the overall pressure remains the same at the load end....See Morejerijen
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