Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weeds. Show all posts
Monday, July 04, 2022

A Life Worth Living Comes With Risk

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In his book , Edible Wild Plants , John Kallas has a very nice disclaimer that I think is worth giving a tip of the hat to: If you ve...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

The American Enclosure Movement

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Female bluebird on barbed wire. The Enclosure Movement in the U.K. had a profound impact on the land, farms, and people in that coun...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Field Weeds: Poke Weed

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American Goldfinch on mature pokeweed in late-June. Poke Weed (often written as "pokeweed") is found from Maine to Minnesota ...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Ghetto Palms In the Hedge

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It's a long way from "Tree of Heaven" to "Ghetto Palm," but that's the linguistic path that  Ailanthus alti...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Attack of the Leafy Spurge

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This is the post no one will read. At some level, I don't blame them -- it's hard to learn about plants without seeing them, and s...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Hunting the Foreigners

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Greg Mousely minking, June 2003 The latest news from Scientific American is that non-native wildlife in Europe wreaks $16 billion a ye...
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Friday, February 15, 2013

The Rise of Muliflora Rose

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When out digging the dogs, it is not uncommon to find a sette under a thick break of multiflora rose, with perhaps a few broken strands ...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Wild Grape

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This post is recycled from 2005. Wild Grape, sometimes called "fox grape" is one of the most common thick-stemmed woody vines in ...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Field Weeds :: Datura

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Datura is sometimes called Jimson Weed, Mad Apple, or Devil's Weed, but whatever you call in, it's a common enough plant on disturb...
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Field Weeds: Iron Weed

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Iron weed, any of several purple-flowered plants in the Vernonia genus , are among our most beautiful wild flowers, but a sure sign that you...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Machete Types, Use and Sharpening

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A repost from this blog, circa 2005 One of the tools I use at almost every dig is a machete. In hedgerows, nothing works faster to cut away...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Foreign Invaders in the Hedgerow

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There's a horrible little vine you can find in the hedgerows around here that is called "Mile a Minute Weed" or "Chinese ...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Datura

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The big green prickly seed pods are Datura Datura is sometimes called Jimson Weed, Mad Apple, or Devil's Weed , but whatever you call i...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The Multiflora Rose Is In Bloom

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When out digging the dogs, it is not uncommon to find a sette under a thick break of multiflora rose , with perhaps a few broken strands of ...
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