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Post by batman on May 31, 2018 6:34:20 GMT -6
Can I spread those with cuttings? Good nitrogen fixer to improve gravel piles.
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Post by mnfish on May 31, 2018 6:39:41 GMT -6
Can I spread those with cuttings? Good nitrogen fixer to improve gravel piles. Maybe...maybe not...but a guy of your age should probably let mother nature do what she does and you just sit down and watch.... Everyone its the Bat's big day today....HAPPY BIRTHDAY Brooks!!!!!!
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Post by Foggy on May 31, 2018 7:44:43 GMT -6
Happy Birthday Brooks!
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Post by mnaaron on May 31, 2018 9:45:34 GMT -6
Happy birthday Batty Man!!!
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Post by benmnwi on May 31, 2018 11:03:56 GMT -6
I have a bunch of bush honeysuckle on my land and I try to kill it off in areas that have plums, hazel or dogwoods so hopefully the good shrubs can expand. I will say though that bush honeysuckle in small amounts makes really good cover and is far better for wildlife than a wide open woods.
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Post by Sandbur on May 31, 2018 11:16:00 GMT -6
I have two bushes on my place that have been there for years. No more have appeared. My guess is that what you have are native honeysuckles, not one of the non-native invasive species. Years back I posted a picture of a native honeysuckle. Stu identified that one and he has also looked at the two bush honeysuckles I have. He felt they are the invasive kind, but not a significant problem on some soils.
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Post by Foggy on May 31, 2018 11:27:37 GMT -6
Just took a pic of a bush Art was curious about at my place last year. (It was near my gate on the road out) Can’t remember if I should get rid of it or encourage more?? What say you???
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Post by wiscwhip on May 31, 2018 11:40:50 GMT -6
Just took a pic of a bush Art was curious about at my place last year. (It was near my gate on the road out) Can’t remember if I should get rid of it or encourage more?? What say you??? Looks like Jap honeysuckle, but just for laughs, cut open a 2 year old stem and see if it is hollow or contains a brown pithy core, if it does, it is a non-native invasive, if the core of the stem is solid, it "belongs" there. If it is actually crowding out the white oak on the right of the lower pic, I might be inclined to cut it out either way?
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 1, 2018 6:25:32 GMT -6
Just took a pic of a bush Art was curious about at my place last year. (It was near my gate on the road out) Can’t remember if I should get rid of it or encourage more?? What say you??? That looks like the two plants on my place. That is all I have ever found. I don’t think it can compete with buckthorn!
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Post by Foggy on Jun 1, 2018 6:42:53 GMT -6
Art.......Did you kill this plants on your place.....or let them grow?
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Post by jbird on Jun 1, 2018 10:51:33 GMT -6
When I have a question - I cut a mature stem like Wisc suggests. To my knowledge only the bad stuff has a hollow stem. The stuff will run wild on my place as it seems to really like rocky/coarse soil from what I can tell. If you have some you don't have to kill it, but certainly keep an eye on it as it can spread quickly if allowed. They can make cover as they hold their leaves late into the fall and winter, but they will absolutely wipe out anything else at ground level with the shade and the root toxins they produce. Bad thing is the best luck I have had in killing it is to cut it and treat the stumps with tordon.....so it's labor intensive when you have a lot of it like I do. I have not had much luck killing it with just a foliage chemical.
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Post by batman on Jun 1, 2018 16:42:41 GMT -6
Any bush that grows into natural deer bedding complete with canopy sounds good to me. Pheasants, corn, beans and brown trout are all non native.
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Post by Reagan on Jun 1, 2018 17:43:45 GMT -6
I thought the Indians were growing corn before the white man came.
Do you have jap Bush honeysuckle? If not, come through and area like SW Ohio where it chokes out everything else. If you cut down hardwoods, they won’t get a chance to regen because the jap will not let it.
Two wrongs or even 200 years of wrongs don’t make it right.
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Post by batman on Jun 1, 2018 18:16:55 GMT -6
I thought the Indians were growing corn before the white man came. Do you have jap Bush honeysuckle? If not, come through and area like SW Ohio where it chokes out everything else. If you cut down hardwoods, they won’t get a chance to regen because the jap will not let it. Two wrongs or even 200 years of wrongs don’t make it right. Make what right?
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 1, 2018 18:48:43 GMT -6
One of the wisest things I’ve heard was when I was talking with a county soil guy. He said “invasives are fantastic habitat features when they are growing where u want them.”
We were talking about cedar and Russian olive.
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