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nathan, nope , not down here. but seen your pic's.:msp_smile:
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I see some places in WA are STILL digging out from the snows! Jesus Tap Dancin' Christ! Around here, you gotta carry a piss can with ya just to fart
What the hay does that mean?
Its a little dry where hes at.
Or hes ate a lot of Mexican food lately.
nathan, nope , not down here. but seen your pic's.:msp_smile:
Zing! Right you are. We've burned I think close to a thousand acres of the stuff already this year in the two weeks we've had the weather for it. Another 200 down today alone! Stuff is nasty; the seeds stay viable for up to 60 years, so you have to burn, spray, mow, rip, or whatever other means of destruction over and over again until the seed-bed is completely exhausted... and the next time anything walks or drives through the cycle begins anew. Nothing eats it, it out-competes nearly everything, and it burns hot and fast. Explosive dehiscence throws seeds everywhere. This time of year you can hear the pods snapping everywhere; sounds like popcorn. Thickets get over ten feet tall and are impossible to walk through. The woody stalks at the base can be four inches or more in diameter. I shudder to think how much this state spends each year trying to control Scots' Broom, or giant knotweed, for that matter.
I've never used imigrant workers or kudzu for a wedge, but I might give it a try now
sooooo....
How 'bout them wedges!!!????
I've never used imigrant workers or kudzu for a wedge, but I might give it a try now :msp_wink:
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We have a nasty invasive plant too, Sosnowskyi's Hogweed, aka Stalin's Revenge.
Ah, yes -- Heracleum mantegazzianum -- we have it here too. Nasty stuff. I wouildn't recommend burning it, as the toxins will dissipate with the smoke, which is an internal hazard as well as an external one. Same goes for poison ivy/oak/sumac -- a large number of firefighter injuries requiring hospitalization are the result of this inhalation. What you will probably be looking at is a long-term program of cutting, poisoning, and overplanting to suppress the sprouts and prevent reproduction. In the absence of natural predation, the only known way to eradicate a non-native is to become a surrogate predator.
It didn't come to my mind the smoke would be toxic as well. It's a good thing you told me that before I ended up poisoning a village with my good intentions and a blowtorch... The Giant hogweeds are originally Caucasian mountain plants. I wonder what's eating them in their natural environment? Should we take a drive to ##### Armenia and give the bugger a lift? And possibly get something more horrible around us.
Another that ranks right up on the top of invasive #### list is Multiflora Rose.
Imported from Asia... back in mid 1800's and promoted by the SCS in the '30's for "natural barriers" for livestock (and D6's :laugh) and bird cover-food it is now a nightmare in all but the Rocky Mtn states.
What is up with Oregon State Extension promoting this aggressive thorn ?
Controls being considered. You can't imagine. Try Japanese Beetles or the rose virus that causes multiflora to re-sprount in "broom-like" thickets with a higher density of thorns.
Wow. That's all that comes to me.
Does anyone that's proposing this stuff, actually get up, leave the office, go to a work site and physically exert themselves removing this "plant" ?
Weren't both broom and acacia brought in by the SCS?
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