It’s been an age since I wrote anything here, so here’s a brain dump post to get things going a bit.
- I spent an hour or two the other day pulling seed pods off of the black swallowwort, which I had previously thought was bindweed. Its an invasive vine that grows all over our yard. The more mature vines along some of our fences, and in our hedge have developed good size seed pods, some of which are starting to burst. When they burst, the pods show the plants relation to milkweed, and release little cottony seeds that travel on the wind. I wanted to get the pods before they released their cargo. Picked a plastic shopping bag full of them. I think that this effort, along with frequent pulling of the vines as they come up, will pay off eventually.
- When I was battling the swallowwort I found some more poison ivy plants (only after I was close enough to have touched them).
- Speaking of Poison Ivy, I bought some Ivy Block and some Tecnu on Monday. Thankfully I had the Tecnu when I needed it (I hope it works).
- Last week we finally got the shelves up in Wifey’s office. One of the brackets started to pull out already so I have to get back in there with the stud-finder. Maybe its a lesson I can apply when I put up my own shelves.
- This organic gardening supply site looks awesome! I can’t wait to get their catalog and pore through it in the winter months.
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