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Battling grapevines

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Battling grapevines

Looking for advice for beating back overgrown grapevine in a sunny area that clearly used to be a garden (there are multiple rose bushes and a northern spice bush) but has been neglected for several years (property is new to me). There is a seasonal stream that runs through the area and our well is downstream slightly from it, so I don’t think glyphosate can be an option. I’ve thought about trying to see if I can bring in some goats for a few days to clear some of it out, but is there any way to get rid of the grapevines so I am not beating them back every year? Some of the vines are massive…like tree trunks.

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(Oklahoma) At the end of the week, i will be moving into my new house on ~20 acres of usable land.(60 total, 40 of it is overgrown with trees to the extent it is hard to walk through).

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(Oklahoma) At the end of the week, i will be moving into my new house on ~20 acres of usable land.(60 total, 40 of it is overgrown with trees to the extent it is hard to walk through).

Anybody in the Payne, Lincoln, Logan county area able to come out and take a look at it one evening, and get me pointed in the right direction on starting to make it nice? Id like to get some fruit trees and a garden going soon, and start managing the land better.

In exchange for the advice, i’m prepared to offer some limited amount of access for deer or turkey hunting, which there are plenty of. Im also planning to trap hogs (we have some sign and a wallow but i dont have them on camera yet and im planning to start feeding them as soon as we move out there to move toward getting them trapped) and would be happy to work out some kind of barter there.

Someone with experience, and a post history consistent with, turning rough land into nicer land would be appreciated.

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Spiders turn fireflies into glowing traps

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Spiders turn fireflies into glowing traps

In Taiwan’s forests, researchers discovered a clever hunting trick by the sheet web spider Psechrus clavis. Instead of immediately devouring captured fireflies, the spiders allow them to glow in the web, luring other insects, sometimes even more fireflies, into the trap. Experiments with LED lights confirmed this eerie strategy: webs lit with firefly-like signals attracted up to ten times more prey.

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Arbutus Gardens

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Arbutus Gardens

As we were touring Renee Moog’s garden, another visitor told me that I should go to Arbutus Garden Arts, which was just down the road. I had no idea we were close but it was a garden I was familiar with and always wanted to visit. A pleasant surprise!
Norm Jacobs is the owner, and he showed us around and answered questions. The garden is also a nursery and he propagates the plants. However, he says that he is in the process of retiring. My friend Linda bought an absolutely stunning weeping snowbell tree. I managed to discipline myself and only left with a groundcover, Erigeron pulchellus ‘Meadow Muffin’.
The garden is stunning with winding pathways surrounded by packed borders of mostly conifers and Japanese maples.

I was enamored by the most beautiful specimen of Sourwood Tree (Oxydendrum arboreum). I have one that seems to be stunted, but Mr. Jacobs told me that they need space for their root zone and do not like competition. This could be my problem, as mine is surrounded by other plants.

Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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Post-it notes and tiny trackers: behind the race to stop Asian hornets thriving in the UK

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Post-it notes and tiny trackers: behind the race to stop Asian hornets thriving in the UK

The invaders present a devastating threat to Britain’s pollinators – constant watchfulness and clever technology are needed to thwart their progress

Were it not for the bags of destroyed hornets nests in the corner, you could be forgiven for confusing Peter Davies’ office with the set of a TV detective show. Maps dotted with Post-it notes cover the wall in the repurposed hotel suite just off the M20 in Kent. There is no natural light: the only window looks down on an atrium below, and is partly obscured by a flip chart with the plan for the day. From here, Davies and his team run the national command centre for holding back the Asian hornet, an invasive species that preys on honeybees and other pollinators.

“In effect, I’m the incident commander to tackle the hornet. We have a forward operating base at the hotel so we can get anywhere in Kent quickly, because that’s where we’ve had the most incursions,” he says.

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