2.5 Acres of Mulch and Long Wood Splinters from downed trees, HELP.
Jude Landry
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Comments (10)We ended up putting pea gravel over our torn out deck as an interim measure until we could afford to put down stone. Its very miserable on bare feet, and it became the neighborhood cats' litter box- yuck! We're going to use cocoa mulch in our roses beds instead of tanbark. Its a small round and flattish shape, and it smells heavenly. It is not edible of course, I'm not sure children like think its really chocolate and try to eat it?? To see pics of our recent landscaping project and some pics of Roses we grow here, ck out my Picture Trail: careytearose Here is a link that might be useful: look at Landscaping Projects 2007, Favourite ROSES We Grow albums...See MoreNewbie needs a Mower for 2.5 acres with a budget .. Help!
Comments (23)OK... So it's getting down to the wire. I went around to a few stores today and I think although it will be a bit more expensive I'm leaning towards new.. The warranty is important for me.. I went to two specialty stores and Home Depot.. So here's what I saw: 1. Cub Cadet zero-turn. The sales guy showed me a 50" for $3500 or a 48" for $4000. The 48" had a welded deck and seemed more solid. He also said some stuff about the mechanics were better. I'm concerned that 48" may be too small for my 3 acres. 2. Another store had a very nice machine. It was a Toro/Exmark. It was more costly at $5000 but it had a 52" deck and was welded, etc.. He told me that if I went with something smaller I'd have to replace it very soon.. 3. I checked out Home Depot.com and they had a John Deere Zero Turn with a 54" deck.. I can't tell but it doesn't look welded... Link below So now I really need the benefit of all of your insight and experience. This is a large purchase and I don't want to make any mistakes. Thanks!!! Here is a link that might be useful: JOHN DEERE 54...See MorePlanning to relandscape a whole 20 acre parcel. So i need informatiom!
Comments (77)edlincoln(6A) /beng12(z6 west Md) /wisconsitom / wisconsitom(Zone 4/5) 1.) Austrian Pine - Ok enough of you are saying bad Choice, so its gone. 8.) Black Locust - This is indeed invasive. Its the same as honey locust except no thorns and different color wood and flowers. I wouldve wanted to keep all these honey locust trees, if they didnt have those huge poker. But there are 3 logical reasons why I decided to keep it. A - This tree has great erosion control abilities in wetlands. B - Its wood value (rot resistant/ dense/ nice grain) is excellent along with its growth rate. Need alot of post. It can try to be as invasive as it wants. Also C - Im a pretty heavy Halloween decorator, and these are the creepest looking live trees ive seen. 9.) Atlas Cedar - Just going to plant 3. If they dont make it, no big deal, I will grow something else. Substitutions: Not bad trees, but other trees are better choices 1.) English Oak - I agree with what your saying and will only grow 12 of these and mix them in. If they dont make it then I will put something else in its place. 2.) Red Pine - I dont disagree, but we have these trees on the property upnorth and the kids went through the trouble of getting the seeds out of the cones. Plus the rest of the family members are sentimental over them and if giving them a few trees will allow me to do some of my future products, then I will bite the bullet. 3) Red Maple - I think the difference from what I been reading is one produces soft maple wood and the other produces Hard maple wood. Regardless though, the rest of the family members each picked out their own favorite maple trees and the rest of this answer is the same as the answer for Red Pine. 4.) European Beech Im planting for wood purposes and wildlife, so im planting both. Additions: 1.) Tupelo (Nyssa Sylvatica) - Everything on the list is being planted except for things with a line through it or a X next to it. Obviously this will be planted. 2.) American Holly - I believe this is on the decorative tree list. 3. ) Did you say there was another list of flowering trees? I'd like to see that. - Granted - you have been extremely helpful and would appreciate additional feedback! Will put the other 2 list up in about 10 minutes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /beng12(z6 west Md) - TY very much for posting pictures and giving me confirmation of the loblolly x pitch / Arizona Cypress / Loblolly / and Pondarosa pine. I really appreciate that! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kitasei(6b lower Hudson Valley, NY) - Yeah, I cant disagree with what your saying. But my arrogance is based off of logic/proof/OCD that is coming from lots of people experts in the fields giving me the same information, forcing my stances. So if there is no logic/proof/or a group of people to back a claim, then yes my mind will not change easily. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- waynedanielson - 1st - I dont do notebooks. They fill up too fast. 2nd - But I do have 56 word documents with around 200 pages for various things to jot/remember. 423 excel documents highly detailed for various list. Just know that I am doing what your saying, except on a pc. I got my hands in lots of cookie jars and I like to keep everything organized for reference purposes....See Morewhere would you build a house on this 2.5 acres?
Comments (38)Dusty, what you are missing is that the aerial photo doesn’t give us details that would help us help YOU with the layout. Is it dead flat? Does water puddle anywhere? Do you need minimum clearances between buildings? Setbacks on front, rear, and side? Keeping some tree buffer is a good idea, but you didn’t really draw that in on your pictures either. If you go to your local GIS page you can get contours of the property. Here are some of mine: Now, if I just showed you the aerial picture you’d see this: And then you’d have no clue that it’s on a decent hillside, and over two acres. Asking where to put a house on the aerial picture is stupid, because you can’t tell what you’re looking at. It looks like there might be a slight hill along the top rectangle and off the driveway leg of it, not a substantial climb and only really one spot to put the bulk of of house. It doesn’t give you a sense of how water flows or where a common sense location for an outbuilding or pool would be, either. None of these things could someone on the Internet glean from the one middle picture. Even one basic elevation shot would help: That itty bitty van behind the bush at the cul de sac is my enormous Nissan van. At least with this picture you can tell the basic elevations, view, and even sun exposure. And ALL of those should impact how you position your home and any accessory buildings. We want to help, but we need more and better data. Make sense?...See MoreJude Landry
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