Baymule’s Pasture Management (or MISmanagement)

[fuzzi]

Wow, impressive. I'm fighting trumpet vines, honeysuckles, ivy (poison and non), and privet. A pox on people who planted privet, it's major league invasive here.

And don't plant this pretty but invasive flower, Star of Bethlehem:

It has dozens if not hundreds of tiny seed bulbs, so I don't save the dirt when I dig them up, but toss plant and dirt in the trash.

 

[Baymule]

Wow - great work!! Never knew that about crawdads. Maybe a turtle is having "gourmet" meals?

Turtle couldn’t get down in the crawdads tunnels.

 

[Baymule]

Wow, impressive. I'm fighting trumpet vines, honeysuckles, ivy (poison and non), and privet. A pox on people who planted privet, it's major league invasive here.

And don't plant this pretty but invasive flower, Star of Bethlehem:
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It has dozens if not hundreds of tiny seed bulbs, so I don't save the dirt when I dig them up, but toss plant and dirt in the trash.

I don’t plant anything without researching it to death. There’s lots of yard plants I just won’t have. No toxic bushes or flowers.

 

[canesisters]

I don’t plant anything without researching it to death. There’s lots of yard plants I just won’t have. No toxic bushes or flowers.

I've started a list of things people have given me that I wish I'd never seen. Bee balm, lemon balm, walking onions (not as bad, but still spreading too much), rose of sharron, irises (I LOVE them & they came from my Mom but multiply faster than I can give them away).....

 

[Baymule]

I've started a list of things people have given me that I wish I'd never seen. Bee balm, lemon balm, walking onions (not as bad, but still spreading too much), rose of sharron, irises (I LOVE them & they came from my Mom but multiply faster than I can give them away).....

All of those soun

I've started a list of things people have given me that I wish I'd never seen. Bee balm, lemon balm, walking onions (not as bad, but still spreading too much), rose of sharron, irises (I LOVE them & they came from my Mom but multiply faster than I can give them away).....

All of those sound desirable, why don’t you like them? Wouldn’t bee balm be a good pasture forb? I had a start of walking onions at my old house in Livingston. As we were loading up and moving out, the lady that bought it was moving in. We went back to finish up, I was going to get some of the walking onions and she had pulled them all up and ate them. LOL
Lemon balm I’ve never grown, it’s supposed to make a good tea, never tried it, have you? I love Iris, they survive in my flower graveyard.

 

[canesisters]

Bee balm spreads by seeds & runners. I put it in the end of a flower bed & now have to rip out several square feet in all directions every year. And it smells like kerosene to me.
Lemon balm will grow from a single dropped leaf. I planted 1 small plant several years ago. It grew huge!! I cut it back (had to use an AX!!!!) & threw the trimmings in the chicken coop. Now I have to mow lemon balm bushes in the coop. I dropped a few bits between the bed & the coop..... now it's nearly as much as the grass. Smells great when I mow......
I got 4 little rose of sharron sticks from Alex on TEG & planted under the kitchen window. They are EVERYWHERE now. They pop up all along the back of the house, out by the driveway, in & around the coop, in flower beds......
I thin the iris every couple of years but I can't give it away fast enough. They're so crowded that they don't bloom well.
The onions.... well they just walk. Out of the bed, along the fence, under the gate.... and again, I can't give them away fast enough.

I enjoy them all. I'm just overwhelmed. It just feels 'wrong' to throw them away but what can you do once you've given them to everyone you know?

 

[Baymule]

Pot them and sell them.

 

[murphysranch]

I got some walking onions from someone on TEG. UGH. Took over everywhere in a raised bed. I killed them two years ago.

But they are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ridgetop]

Something is eating the tails off the crawdads in the small front field. Whatever it is, it needs to catch a whole lot more.

Hazine is digging at the earth mounds in the pastures. I thought they might be fire ants hills but there are no ants near them. She smells along the ground near the mounds and then starts digging. She digs fairly large holes about 12-18" wide and 12-18' deep. Sometimes she digs them wider. Then I see her sticking her head down inside the holes like she is catching something and eating it. I looked up crawdads and they are supposed to be freshwater crustaceans like mini lobsters. Another info spot said they like to live in the mud.

If you have lots of crayfish in your field, maybe you could dig them up and sell them. I wonder if coyotes are digging the up and eating them.

 

[canesisters]

I got some walking onions from someone on TEG. UGH. Took over everywhere in a raised bed. I killed them two years ago.

But they are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are immortal