Walnut trees and dogs
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Comments (0)Here is what I know I will have extra right now,I am setting up spring trades.I can send june yarrow white snow on the mountain yellow loosestife purple loosestife rose campion yucca sedum black matrona grape vine boxwood rhodendreon iris yellow flag lemon balm spearmint lemon mint st johns wort laced romeno carnation blue dune grass violets-urple self heal sedum autumn joy fire red highland dream leucanthemum latris purple crape murtle yellow primrose pink primrose pink turtlehead Forsythia 'Lynwood Gold' Purple Lilac Tree Black walnut Tree Red Twig dog wood black walnut tree Hyssop Golden marguerite Plantain Coltsfoot WOOD BETONY HERB LOUSEWORT TOOTHWORT CARDAMINE CONCATENATA BLACK COHOSH ACTAEA RACEMOSA BLUE COHOSH ___________________________ looking for wants on my trade list...See MoreTree Peoies under a Walnut tree?
Comments (4)Not necessarily a bad idea. If you are willing to water them, peonies are on the list of plants that can tolerate juglone. I don't know if peony and tree people are interchangeable in that regard. But that toxin is what one must consider when trying to grow anything near a walnut tree. There are a lot of other things to consider also, which would be factors when considering planting under any tree, such as increased shade as the tree grows larger, and whether or not you can find a place to dig where the roots don't make it impossible....See MoreChipper/shredder for nuts?
Comments (4)John, MacKissic also makes chipper/shredder/vacs like their Leaf Cycler or their Mighty Mac VCB-258 vacuum/chipper/shredder, but I have my doubts that any chipper/shredder/vac combination, from MacKissic or anybody else, will do what you want it to do. In order to effectively shred something like newly fallen walnuts with their husks on, you need a shredder that consists of a hammermill with a screen. Several of the MacKissic "Mighty Mac" shredders are hammermills with interchangeable screens and they would do an excellent job of pulverizing your nuts to a fine-grained product that would be an excellent addition to a compost pile. The hard cores of black walnuts would be noisy, but they would be pulverized. But to my knowledge, none of the "true" hammermill shredders operate while moving and picking up stuff. With the possible exception of the MacKissic VCB-258, (which I really don't know anything about except that I don't like Tecumseh engines) the hammermill shredders won't pick up your fallen nuts. I don't consider the VCB-258's "hammermill" shredder to be a full-blown hammermill, even though it does have swinging hammers (how many?) and a screen. (And what is the hole size on that screen?) Most hammermills just stand there while you bring stuff to them and feed it into the shredder chute or the chipper chute. Any vacuum strong enough to pick up big nuts is going to suck in a lot of other stuff too. I think they are designed primarily for picking up leaves and twigs. Last year I swept up a lot of acorns using a couple of good leaf rakes and a flat-bottomed shovel. I put them in big plastic baskets and carried them to my MacKissic Mighty Mac shredder and put them through its optional " screen. It was a bit noisy, but a great product that resembled very coarse coffee grounds poured out. I added it to an existing compost pile that had been made by putting a lot of brush piles through the same ¼" screen. That compost pile "perked" nicely. Incidentally, I would not add pulverized black walnuts to my compost because of the growth-retardant effects of the juglone that they contain. But for me, that is a moot question, because we don't have any walnut trees. The shredders in most, if not all, of the shredder vacs have rotating fixed or pivoted blades that attempt to shred by cutting or shearing. For nuts, that's literally a "hit or miss" proposition, while in a hammermill the nuts are trapped in the shredding chamber until the swinging hammers bash them into small enough particles to escape through the holes in the screen. You control the particle size by your selection of the screen's hole size. A good range of screen sizes is available. I have ¼", ½", ¾", 1" (the standard included size), and 1½" x 2½" oblong holes (for wet stuff). In answer to your question, "Will the smaller unit suck up and shred 2+ inch diameter nuts?", I don't know if it will suck up the larger nuts, but if it does, I seriously doubt that it can do a good job of shredding them. MM...See MoreUnknown tree - sumac, walnut, tree of heaven?
Comments (12)I love my Elderberries. They are edible and you can make wine, jelly, and pies. They supposedly have medicinal properties as well. Birds love the berries! I used to watch a parade of birds frequent my Elderberries until a Robin claimed the back yard as his territory. He hogs the bird bath and the Elderberries. So then I spread the shrubs farther apart thinking the Robin couldn't monopolize them. We shall see because they are still recovering from transplant. Maybe you can move the shrub in the fall if you don't want it there. They are pretty easy to move. A worthy native shrub. This post was edited by terrene on Sat, Jun 15, 13 at 21:58...See Morecalliope
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