Found this mystery weed taking out the trash (6a Boston)
John Donovan
8 years ago
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The stem on this plant is a really light greenish blue. Any help would be great.
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Comments (32)Follow up - I went through all the steps. Lime, potassium sulfate, de-thatch with a verti-seeder and straw blankets where necessary to control erosion (if we ever get and rain again). To help build up the organics, I used spent beer mash from my friend's micro-brewery. Since it's wet it isn't really easy to spread around. I mostly flung it with a shovel, so the coverage isn't real even. It smelled kind of funny for a couple of days, but doesn't seem to have hurt anything. I may do another application in the early spring. I used a blend in the front yard and mostly tall fescue in the back shady yard. Water, water, water and more watering. Watering 6,000 sq feet in a royal pain in the arse! I just couldn't do the recommended thrice per day, but I usually got two waterings in, until things started sprouting. By far, the best water came on too few occasions from Mother Nature. She really knows how to soak the yard evenly. Low and behold, the dirt is now covered with green grass (and a few weeds) it looks great and we are pretty pleased with the results. I have mowed it once (at the tallest setting) and may mow toward the end of November to mulch the leaves. Click o the link below to see where I am now. Here is a link that might be useful: My most recent post about winter prep & weeds...See Morekilling weeds in black trash bags
Comments (9)I did something similar as the poster of this thread - threw chunks of sod riddled with Wild Violet into black trash bags thinking that after a few weeks they would be dead and I could re-claim the soil. This material has been laying in closed (thought not tightly sealed trash bags)since March. When I open them up and dig through the sod I still see viable Wild Violet shoots though everything else is dead. We haven't had many hot days yet though. Because these trash bags are kind of an eyesore I wonder if there is anything I can do to speed the destruction of these plants/weeds. I would like to save the soil they are in - otherwise I would discard it somewhere out in the woods. Would it be faster to move the bags inside of my garage with dim light? I guess the question is whether plants die faster due to excess heat (but some minimal light penetrating the bag) or due to a lack of light (but less heat). Thanks for any suggestions....See MorePlease help! Found rose rosette on a sunny knockout
Comments (11)Michaelg, I guess it is possible that a herbcide affected it. My husband put out some weed and feed in another part of the yard and sprayed some Roundup on other parts of the property, not near the roses. He always uses a grounder when he sprays to prevent drift. Also, I live in an agricultural area and although there are no fields adjacent to our property, planes do fly over all the time on the way to and from the ag airports. So there is always a possibility, even if not a probability. After reading more about RRD I think I am safe in that there is a lot of this red growth and RRD develops slowly. Also, there have been no documented outbreaks of it in Louisiana. I will keep watching and thanks so much for your help! I am glad that someone suggested posting pictures!...See Moreguess what I found while digging up my walkway
Comments (42)Chelone, the cat's name is Lily, sister (in spirit) to Tiger, an orange male and the coolest cat who ever walked the face of the earth. Lily is more normal cat, Tiger thinks he is a person. He knows more people in the neighborhood than I do, and frequents most of their homes. There is also a third orange long-hair named Molly. Orange cats have the best temperaments IME. Thanks for the compliments - - it's nice to hear after all that sweat I invested! All of the materials used were found on my property except for the stone dust, which I got at a discount through a friend. I have to say right now I actually love the look of the walkway, while I think the patio is just "ok". I do prefer the irregular stones, impractical as they may be. The patio stones are a bit out of line since I was just eyeballing them and then I had friends come in to help finish who weren't as picky as me! As for Poor Martha (as she has come to be known in the neighborhood), my next step if the town historian doesn't call back and take over is to go to the Bureau of Vital Statistics (I think that's what it's called) in Hartford and search for that date of death. If there is a Martha, well, Bingo. If not, and there are one or two other people with that DOD, I can check which cemetery they were buried in and see if they have stones (and whether they are replacement stones). If there is no match that way, I might be out of luck because that means the stone was not local. In that case I would just beg the historical society or a cemetery to take it. The woman from the Connecticut Gravestone Network also said she can search ancestors.com because she has a membership. So we'll see if she comes up with anything. For now Poor Martha has been moved to the patio, where I'm sure she's doing a great job of freaking out the mailman when he walks up to my house everyday. Hopefully he has figured out that she was unearthed during the walkway reno!...See Morefloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
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