Helpful website discussing pH of pine needle mulch. It does not make soil acidic. #mulch #gardening #weeds #allotment #garden #soil #dirt #blueberries #pine https://www.wineboxgardener.com/home/2016/5/29/pine-needle-mulch-for-blueberries

Helpful website discussing pH of pine needle mulch. It does not make soil acidic. #mulch #gardening #weeds #allotment #garden #soil #dirt #blueberries #pine https://www.wineboxgardener.com/home/2016/5/29/pine-needle-mulch-for-blueberries
Just a pic of somebody else's plot at the community garden. In two weeks he'll lay down a fresh layer of plastic, plant tomatoes, peppers, and sunflowers, and then never return to harvest a thing. I don't know why he does it. #CommunityGarden #garden #gardening #allotment #plastic #weeds
WeedCUT from U California
"METHODS FOR MANAGING WEEDS IN WILDLANDS"
(Me to brain, "no, you don't need goats".)
#weeds #invasiveplants
https://weedcut-new.ipm.ucanr.edu/management-practices/#non-chemical
'This virtual exhibit aims to immerse visitors in the captivating histories and delicious recipes of 5 edible weeds in North America. These plants share stories about the land and the people who have inhabited it across generations. Plus, the invasive plants can be made into delicious snacks!'
Pulling up an endless supply of bindweed from the garden. #gardening #weeds
Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) in a field of lesser celandine (Ficaria verna). I'm in Pennsylvania where they were originally introduced in 1800s, both as ornamentals. The Japanese knotweed was also planted for erosion control. Now horribly invasive but at least the bees like them. #JapaneseKnotweed #LesserCelandine #InvasiveSpecies #weeds #plants #ecology #pennsylvania #pollinators #polygonaceae #ranunculaceae
Got to get some lime for the garden. The red sorrel just throttles anything I plant and digging it up just multiplies the string-like roots. #gardening #weeds
So what are people's thoughts on using wood chips for weed suppression? I've heard that fungal decomposition sucks nitrogen from the surrounding soil, plus the nooks and crannies can provide ideal habitat for plant-nibbling pillbugs. (This is not my plot.) #CommunityGarden #garden #gardening #weeds #mulch #fungi #woodchips #nitrogen #pillbugs #woodlice #allotment
There's nothing more unpleasant than removing weeds from wire fencing at the community garden. So I maintain a healthy border on the perimeter so it doesn't come to that. In my head I refer to it as the DMZ. #weeds #weeding #allotment #garden #gardening
Dug a new pit at the vegetable plot for on-site composting of weeds. Will bury the victims after a week or so, then will plant lima beans. #compost #composting #weeds #weeding #allotment #garden #gardening
Human-made ecosystems: Ecological novelty is now the "new normal" for our planet
"30-40% of the world's terrestrial ecosystems have already transformed into novel states."
"O'ahu as an "amazing crystal ball" that offers a glimpse of the future of our planet if humans continue to damage environments and drive species to extinction."
"Hawaii's O'ahu's lowland forests are now almost entirely devoid of the plants and animals that grew here for millions of years before the arrival of humans. Settlers brought extinctions by cutting down trees to make farms and introducing voracious predators and disease-carrying animals. Today, these tropical forests are a tapestry of non-native species introduced from every corner of the planet: Brazilian peppertree, Indonesian cinnamon and roseleaf bramble from the Himalayas and Australia. Most of the animals, including all the birds that Tarwater mentioned earlier, are also alien."
"We like to think of O'ahu as the cautionary tale for all the other Pacific Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. It's what you don't want to have happen – Corey Tarwater"
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans
Towards a novel biosphere in 2300: rapid and extensive global and biome-wide climatic novelty in the Anthropocene
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2023.0022
#biodiversity #biosphere #ecosystems #extinction #birds #loss #InvasiveSpecies #degradation #SettlerSociety #cattle #dogs #grasses #NovelEcosystems #weeds #restoration #Pacific
The #coltsfoot is out! It lives in the sandy areas alongside our road. I was so startled when we first moved here - what were these #dandelions doing out so early??
But they aren’t dandelions. The flowers do look different if you examine them closely, as do the stems that hold them up. Plus, the leaves don’t even make an appearance until the weather has warmed up, and those don’t look anything like dandelion leaves at all.
Does anyone know which #pollinators come to these? Our vernal miner bees aren’t even out yet, as far as I can tell.
Yesterday's weed haul at the garden. I try to keep bouts of weeding to under 5 mins so that it doesn't become loathsome chore that I will then start avoiding. #CommunityGarden #GrowYourOwn #weeding #weeds #allotment #garden
I helped a fellow gardener weed her plot for a few hours last year, and today she left me a bottle of wine as a thank you. Hidden in my weed pit, of course. #CommunityGarden #allotment #weeds #weeding #gardening #wine #alcohol
Comfrey in the stumpery. Sourced from a drift of self-sown comfrey elsewhere in the garden.
The bees love it but they were camera shy. I overheard them talking: “Oh. it’s him again with this thing that goes click. Looks like a giant eye. Very suspicious. Better wait and come back when he’s gone”, they said.