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I finished cutting down a forest of ragweed which I have let go tooooo long. Every year, a few more until this year the plants were up to 8 ft tall and an inch and a quarter diameter in several areas! I used hand tools --easier to carry --I will start to pick all the 'trees' up and put them on the burn piles later and a little each day. They were dropping pollen but I hope none of them had gone to seed yet. What a mess!
Oh and then I came home and took a nap.:whistle:
 
Don Alaska said:
I read an article from some orchardist in Michigan or Wisconsin who said he made a mixture of prepared sheetrock mud, white latex house paint (he recommended Glidden for some reason) and water, all in equal parts. Mix them together and paint the trunks as high as the snow usually goes. He claimed that rabbits, voles, etc. wouldn't touch the stuff. They would take one taste and never try again. I don't know if it works or not, but i am going to try it this year if I can get around to it. We don't have rabbits here unless someone releases their domestics, but we do have snowshoe hares. They have never damaged a tree that I have seen. The voles are terrible here, though, and will girdle any tree they find under the snow, They seem to concentrate on apple trees, but, as far as I know, no one grows peaches here unless in a greenhouse.
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I think I will try that. I have a bucket of mud and one of paint already. Soooo many trees I want to keep.
Funny, If I buy a little tree at a store and it has an id wrap around it, I just leave them on and it seems to help for the first year.
 
Mary Stetler said:
I think I will try that. I have a bucket of mud and one of paint already. Soooo many trees I want to keep.
Funny, If I buy a little tree at a store and it has an id wrap around it, I just leave them on and it seems to help for the first year.
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It may be online somewhere. I got it from a commercial orchard here.
 
Busy day today. Today was Senior Shopping Day at the local Kroger affiliate, so that was first. We gotta get there before all those "darn old people" who plug up the aisles when they can't find stuff or decide what they want.:) Then we went to the fair to pick up stuff that my wife entered that would could get back or wanted. They had a "bear bag" that will be used to feed bears in the local wildlife rehab center, and a box where produce that was still edible by humans could be put. The box goes to a local food bank. Flowers and herbs just go into the trash.

I then visited the greenhouses and picked all my hot peppers to make a "cowboy candy relish" that I use a lot to spice up hotdogs, sausages, and deviled eggs, etc. It was quite a "cluster" as I only usually do this once a year and I forget the sequence. I sort the OP peppers form the hybrids and select the OP peppers that I want to use for seeds and harvest the seeds and put them on labeled drying plates. then I grind the peppers up into a relish mix while the brine is cooking. While I was looking for the "grinder" (my wife did not return it to its usually place because she needed a ladder ( or me) and she didn't have either nearby, so she stashed it with the board games until she found a ladder)--which never occurred. I searched the closets, and the garage where canning stuff is often stored, but to no avail. I finally found it in the board games, but now my brine was boiling over all over the stove and I hadn't even started my grinding. I had to turn off the brine while I got the grinding thing set up and the peppers processed. I finally got the stuff ground up, and I reheated the brine. I got everything done at last. I was supposed to go into town to do some stuff when my wife got out of church, but I was in the middle of canning, so she went by herself...and forgot to pick up stuff she had specifically asked about. She was distracted by Michael's....

I think it sounds a bit like a @Nancy Hart story:)
 
Our Kroger used to have a Senior’s Day, too; but they stopped doing that a long time ago. Then, the new Walmart opened up and the local college closed , so the Kroger closed down the store that was close to where we live.
I really like shopping at Kroger, but unless Bobby needs to go to Lowe’s or Home Depot, we never go anywhere near the other Kroger that is near where we live.
If we are going to Lowe’s, then Kroger is on the way, so we can quickly stop there and shop on the way , and I look forward to that !
 
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