GreenDragon
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Had to stop to cook dinner.
Everything now labeled
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Green Dragon's 2021 Grow
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What about the national flags of the countries: Japan, North Macedonia, Brazil, Cuba, DR?
Bob
Bob
GreenDragon
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When life hands you lemons... make lemonade!
The yard when we moved in last month:
The yard last week during snow-mageddon. Note all the broken and split branches:
This afternoon after getting thoroughly over-excited with the chainsaw. Lots of sun and room for a tobacco bed now!
The yard when we moved in last month:
The yard last week during snow-mageddon. Note all the broken and split branches:
This afternoon after getting thoroughly over-excited with the chainsaw. Lots of sun and room for a tobacco bed now!
That looks really nice. I see your neighbor has some damage also. Is he going to trim the limbs or take down the tree?
GreenDragon
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Judging from the state of his yard when I moved in (I peaked over the fence) I doubt they will do a single thing.
leverhead
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Fences make good neighbors!
Frost was ambivalent or perhaps critical of his neighbor's insistence that "Good fences make good neighbors."
Bob
Bob
GreenDragon
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Yep, jerks will be jerks regardless. However, living in the pressure cooker of the suburbs, a good fence can help to screen out some of their more annoying behaviors.
All the trees on his side of the fence split down the middle. They all fell onto the fence and into my yard. They were there for 5 days. No word at all from them. No offer to help clean up or anything. Thankfully all the neighbors to my sides and across the street are extremely nice and we all helped each other out. Next step is to haul all this to the curb and have the city send out a truck for pickup.
Oldfella
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A couple of paddocks make even better neighbors. I am lucky all my neighbors are good.
Cheers Oldfella
GreenDragon
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Today my younger son and I carried all the brush to the curb. It took us several hours. But Man! What a difference it's made to the yard. I can actually walk around the whole yard, and not have to push my way through thick undergrowth. It was dark when we finished, so I'll post some Pics tomorrow.
I would like to see them. I could tell it was really opening things up in the there. More open, spacious, and sunny.
Don you know the plant varieties that you carried out to the curb? Any Latakia firing prospects in that pile?
Bob
Bob
GreenDragon
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Unfortunately, I don't think any of these would be good to add to the experiment as they are all poisonous and/or do not smell good:
•Texas Mountain Laurel (Poisonous)
•Cherry Laurel (Poisonous)
•Loquat
•Pittosporum (Stinks)
•Texas Sage (Musty)
GreenDragon
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Yes, it really opened it up. I took some pictures this morning. Unfortunately it's overcast today, so you can't tell but it is really sunny in this area now.
I could not walk through this area previously due to the overgrowth.
This is the Pile ready for pickup.
Loquat is a tasty fruit, and its leaves are used for tea. Decades ago (in Berkeley, CA) I made batches of Loquat jam and Loquat preserves. Heaven knows what the wood might smell like if burned.
Bob
Bob
GreenDragon
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Just ran a test with my trusty torch lighter. Smoke smells like mild hardwoods with a slight oily note. Nothing notably distinctive or unique that I picked up on. I do like the fruits though. Wife and I made Jelly out of some last year - was really good.
leverhead
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The rule for BBQ wood is any fruit or nut bearing tree/shrub. In New England corn cobs were usually in the mix.
I'm just searching for a way for you to increase your bonding with your son, by having to carry some of the brush back from the roadside to the house.
Bob
Bob
GreenDragon
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Today was spent rehabilitating the pathway in the side yard. All the stepping stones in the path had been covered in dirt and was a complete mud hole whenever it rained. So in the first picture I have dug up the stones and put them aside.
I realized that there was not enough stone to fill the path, so I went to the local landscape supply and got a 1/2 ton of the closest matching stone they had. Also some page of paver sand and black star gravel for the grout lines. I think it turned out pretty well. Also, my back is telling me in no uncertain terms that it is not used to this treatment! The rest of the evening will be spent on the couch watching Netflix.
I realized that there was not enough stone to fill the path, so I went to the local landscape supply and got a 1/2 ton of the closest matching stone they had. Also some page of paver sand and black star gravel for the grout lines. I think it turned out pretty well. Also, my back is telling me in no uncertain terms that it is not used to this treatment! The rest of the evening will be spent on the couch watching Netflix.
ChinaVoodoo
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Great job. Looks like a tonne of work.
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