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(05-26-2018, 04:57 PM)Juniper Wrote: (05-26-2018, 02:23 PM)tvguy Wrote: (05-26-2018, 01:59 PM)Juniper Wrote: (05-26-2018, 01:48 PM)tvguy Wrote: (05-26-2018, 12:41 PM)Juniper Wrote: Bamboo is my enemy. I haven't watered the back yard for years...but can't rid myself of it. I've had the back yard covered in thick black plastic sheeting weighed down with rocks for at least 5 years. That seems to be have me winning battles but not the war.
I know. I know LOL. But your soil NEVER dries out like my old river bottom. Your soil probably goes down at least 10 feet.
My topsoil is at best about one foot deep. Also I bet your neighbors water their yards.
Do you know anyone around where you live that has to water their trees? I have to or they die.
I think people don't think trees need to be watered but they do. Bug trees don't. Not even where I live, But yes just because a tree survives that doesn't mean it never needs water.
And the type of soil is critical. Where I live the indigenous trees are pines and scrub oaks. And most of the pines are dying off over the years. I don't have any oaks. I have one old pine tree I do water a couple times in the driest part of summer.
Have you ever heard of "black sticky? that's what the locals call the soil in lots of places. Like the pear orchards.
I had a fried who lived off Vilas rd.There were poplar trees just like I have. But they were HUGE towering beautiful trees.
That area has the black sticky. It's only about 4 to 5 miles from where I live. But I believe it's been hundreds of thousands of years or millions since the river flowed over that ground.
Unlike my place which would have been a lot more recent.
What's a bug tree? Big, but you knew that, right?
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(05-27-2018, 01:24 PM)tvguy Wrote: (05-26-2018, 04:57 PM)Juniper Wrote: (05-26-2018, 02:23 PM)tvguy Wrote: (05-26-2018, 01:59 PM)Juniper Wrote: (05-26-2018, 01:48 PM)tvguy Wrote: I know. I know LOL. But your soil NEVER dries out like my old river bottom. Your soil probably goes down at least 10 feet.
My topsoil is at best about one foot deep. Also I bet your neighbors water their yards.
Do you know anyone around where you live that has to water their trees? I have to or they die.
I think people don't think trees need to be watered but they do. Bug trees don't. Not even where I live, But yes just because a tree survives that doesn't mean it never needs water.
And the type of soil is critical. Where I live the indigenous trees are pines and scrub oaks. And most of the pines are dying off over the years. I don't have any oaks. I have one old pine tree I do water a couple times in the driest part of summer.
Have you ever heard of "black sticky? that's what the locals call the soil in lots of places. Like the pear orchards.
I had a fried who lived off Vilas rd.There were poplar trees just like I have. But they were HUGE towering beautiful trees.
That area has the black sticky. It's only about 4 to 5 miles from where I live. But I believe it's been hundreds of thousands of years or millions since the river flowed over that ground.
Unlike my place which would have been a lot more recent.
What's a bug tree? Big, but you knew that, right? Well, that's what I thought. But where I work we have some big trees and they are not doing too well. People who worked there before me say they think they are dying from lack of water, because it used to be a watered lawn but now it's just bark. They don't look healthy, that's for sure.
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(05-27-2018, 06:50 AM)Scrapper Wrote: (05-26-2018, 05:39 PM)Juniper Wrote: (05-26-2018, 05:05 PM)Scrapper Wrote: I still do not have a garden. Now that we have Lola... we accumulate little "tootsie rolls" in the backyard. But... that's been cleaned up!
And you felt the need to post a picture? I hope those bags are biodegradable.
Because I have a twisted sense of humor... also, because I can.
And... absofreakinglutely!
They are absolutely biodegradable? My first thought was how environmentally insensitive if they were not.
Anyway speaking of dog shit. I woke up this morning at 6:30 and our Cane Corso had diarrhea and had literally shit all over the house.
In my wife's office all over the futon, in her bedroom, in the kitchen , in the dining room and in the living room.
ARRRRRGGGggggg
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BTW, you can get them on Amazon. I got mine at Bi-Mart though.
"Avoid pollution:
This type of dog waste bags is 100% biodegradable to protect the environment. Let's protect our home make a green planet!"
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My bamboo is growing about a foot per day LOL I'm going to cross breed this with a pot plant
May 25... almost 6 feet
May 30..... 10 1/2 feet tall
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I planted a two gallon potted fig tree in my backyard last February. Much to my surprise about a dozen figs appeared this spring! Even better the deer seemed to leave them alone though they ate the apple tree I planted at the same time. Well, today I got four delicious figs from it. The deer got the rest.
It looks like a couple dozen more figs are forming for the fall crop. Guess I'll have to build a fence around it.
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I didn't know deer liked figs...but they eat nearly everything.
How's that spawn of Satan, TV, the bamboo?
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(07-31-2018, 08:27 PM)Juniper Wrote: I didn't know deer liked figs...but they eat nearly everything.
How's that spawn of Satan, TV, the bamboo?
They don't touch the leaves. They just plucked the figs off and ate them.
Anybody have a paintball gun I can borrow?
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(07-31-2018, 08:36 PM)Cuzz Wrote: (07-31-2018, 08:27 PM)Juniper Wrote: I didn't know deer liked figs...but they eat nearly everything.
How's that spawn of Satan, TV, the bamboo?
They don't touch the leaves. They just plucked the figs off and ate them.
Anybody have a paintball gun I can borrow?
Selective little shits, ain't they?
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(07-31-2018, 08:46 PM)Juniper Wrote: (07-31-2018, 08:36 PM)Cuzz Wrote: (07-31-2018, 08:27 PM)Juniper Wrote: I didn't know deer liked figs...but they eat nearly everything.
How's that spawn of Satan, TV, the bamboo?
They don't touch the leaves. They just plucked the figs off and ate them.
Anybody have a paintball gun I can borrow?
Selective little shits, ain't they?
Yes, selective. But undiscriminating.
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