As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
As you will be reading the wisdom from Maine down below, you can read the meanderings of this poor orphan girl here.
The wicked uncle had an obsession for spraying weeds and mowing grass to the bone. It got him grub worms, got him coons that dug up the yard like a herd of pig, and more damn cheat grass than grass.
So I spent last summer running off the riff raff that wicked and Hoss had let strewn problems around my inheritance., and in doing so, I left the grass grow. Let it grow into July, like Grandpa always did, to let the June grass seed, and then seed out. How you grow grass.
Grass will heal itself in most cases if you just quit cutting the stuff to the bone. You see a flock of dandelions in a yard, that is from mowing grass too short.
Things are looking better this year in the drought we have. We got grass, no grubs, no coons and the weeds are about done in. Just use a spade to cut off the bull thistle.
I been land healing for a while.Is different here than out east. Out east they got a thing called rain that makes war on grass. Get things wet and you get brush and trees that out pace the grass. Out west the natural way is a good green growing grass wet, then a hot ass dry,burn to hell month and then a big grass fire. That brooms off the buck brush, plum brush and cedars. Fire cleanses things, but you can't get no cleansing in the east as things don't burn in the wet.
Awhile back as a youth, we had a big ole patch of poison ivy. I hit that shit with LV 6 a real terror on noxious weeds. It put in the cure for a decade, but we have been wet and ivy likes wet, and it has come on like gangbusters. Is on my project to do list, even if I think it would make a real noxious weapon in using them leaves as bedding for others.
I see they have LV 4 now, more expensive than perfume. Am thinking about the outlay on that as a necessity, as have to get the leafy spurge reined in too.
Grass don't cure noxious weeds.
Before the advent of weed spray, the cure they used allot was mowing. Sickle mowing as lawnmowers were things you pushed.
Got to understand though about things. Weeds got their purpose. They run on sour ground, acidic PH, until it can heal at least before the HAARP chem toxins. Some got deep roots that bring up nutrients to the top soil. All in the cycle, like trees.
God handled all of this in six years farming and one year fallow or not growing things. The Lost 10 got into other advances like crop rotation and animal manure to supplement things so they never had to leave land fallow. Alfalfa high in protein was the cure from Russia. Feed the cows several years on that perennial, deep roots and nitrogen legume, and you plough it up, plant your wheat to not deplete the ground, and then plant your corn as that is a heavy feeder. Rotate things like flax for oil and linen and you are back to alfalfa in the rotation.
None of that though is market garden or truck farming. That is a different animal.
I would hate being wet all the time. Rather have it hot as balls and air conditioning. Texas would be a fine place with AC, but too many Mexicans shitting things up. Hate the cold . Hate the snow worse as you don't have to shovel cold, just feed the woodstove and it likes eating hard work when it is cold.
Well time for some Maine wisdom of doing things where it is Irish cold all the time. Different methods as God's world is allot of different niche.
Hello Lame Cherry,I hope you and TL are doing well. It's been an extremely wet Spring here. Very little sun through the entire month of June. Haven't had a 3-4 hot dry period to be able to start haying yet and rain coming everyday in the 10 day forecast. I bale square bales, so I can't wrap green hay like they do with the round bales.I have a neighbor that has a 4 acre field that hadn't been hayed for several years and she started to have me bush hog it once a year for her a few years ago. It was nothing but a weed infested field with thousands of young saplings coming up every year (still is) and poison Ivy encroaching on significant areas. Last year I decided to take about a 1/2 acre area of it and mow it every week like you would your lawn. By the end of fall, the poison Ivy was dying off and the amount of weeds and saplings were vastly reduced.This year, there is very little poison Ivy where I mowed, almost no saplings, and the weeds are few and far in between. It's looking like a lawn. I believe that another season of mowing weekly will have this area restored to one that can produce hay again. I did bush hog the rest just recently to try and cut down the weeds before they went to seed. It was a trade off. The grass had gone to seed (which will help re-seed the soil with grass), but the milkweed had already formed the seed heads, but not fully developed. So there may be another generation of milkweed to deal with. At any rate, I believe I can restore the remaining area of the field without having to turn over the soil and re-seed the entire field by mowing it weekly using the grooming mower behind the tractor. Those saplings have to be cut down often or they keep shooting buds.Thought I'd share the success.Take care and God Bless,P
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