Richardin52
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Don't know about the rest of you but in Maine the cool weather is a great time to cut, split and pile fire wood. Now that the leaves are mostly off it is also a good time to trim back brush along the stone walls and fence lines. My father in law always ran fence along stone walls. He never took down old fence just left it and added more. So I now have a yearly tradition of cutting up and hauling off a section old fence. I figure by the time I'm 90 I should have most of it.
I have found if I let my cattle have room on both sides of a stone wall they do a pretty good job of keeping brush down. This works great everywhere but walls that are property lines. All I can do there is keep cutting brush.
My next door neighbour had some Bitter Sweet growing on his front lawn on a pole for about ten years. If you don't know what Bitter Sweet is, it's an evasive vine, it spreads fast, wraps itself around trees as it goes up a tree and will kill any tree it wraps itself around by wrapping around it so tight the tree truck cannot grow sort of like putting a bunch of wire around a tree.
Anyway now I have it along my fence on that side which is the property line. I've seen this stuff cover a fence in one summer elsewhere. I only saw about three plants today on my fence. But it will be a big problem in years to come I am sure.
We also have Russian Olive showing up now, another evasive plant. The local extension was giving people free Russian Olives a few years ago. I guess they didn't know it would take over a choke out other trees. now you see the stuff everywhere. It likes to grow along fences too but unlike Bitter Sweet you don't tend to see it in the woods to much.
I guess I'll go eat supper. catch ya later
I have found if I let my cattle have room on both sides of a stone wall they do a pretty good job of keeping brush down. This works great everywhere but walls that are property lines. All I can do there is keep cutting brush.
My next door neighbour had some Bitter Sweet growing on his front lawn on a pole for about ten years. If you don't know what Bitter Sweet is, it's an evasive vine, it spreads fast, wraps itself around trees as it goes up a tree and will kill any tree it wraps itself around by wrapping around it so tight the tree truck cannot grow sort of like putting a bunch of wire around a tree.
Anyway now I have it along my fence on that side which is the property line. I've seen this stuff cover a fence in one summer elsewhere. I only saw about three plants today on my fence. But it will be a big problem in years to come I am sure.
We also have Russian Olive showing up now, another evasive plant. The local extension was giving people free Russian Olives a few years ago. I guess they didn't know it would take over a choke out other trees. now you see the stuff everywhere. It likes to grow along fences too but unlike Bitter Sweet you don't tend to see it in the woods to much.
I guess I'll go eat supper. catch ya later
