[Magdalen] In the jungle

[Charles Wohlers]

My daughter cut a large black locust (trunk ~10" thick) down to use as fence 
posts for her garden, as it doesn't rot. The cut posts started sprouting new 
growth.

Just back from playing "whack-a-mole" with the Japanese knotweed. Machetes 
work real well on it.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Christopher Hart
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 2:48 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] In the jungle

The most annoying invasive plant in my yard is Black Locust. Horrible
wretched things.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bamboo was the scourge of my parents' backyard in Knoxville. My dad fought
> a losing battle with the stuff. And we won't talk about honeysuckle (which
> I partially forgive because of its sweet scent) or the worst of all, the
> plant that ate the south, KUDZU! When our Adam was in Iraq, we threatened
> to send him some in a care package that he could plant near an oasis. We
> figured if it spread, maybe the Sunnis and Shiites would get so busy
> fighting it that they would forget to fight each other. He said Iraq was
> too dry, though.
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Had J knotweed in Syracuse. It volunteered at the edge of our back lot
> > line and grew into a massive living fence the summer before I went
> looking
> > to find out more about it. After 8 years living there we never did
> totally
> > eradicate it
> >
> > Lynn
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Sep 7, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Charles Wohlers <
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Haven't seen pokeweed in Vermont. It does exist in Massachusetts, but
> > isn't generally a problem. Now, Japanese knotweed and multiflora rose,
> OTOH
> > ...
> >
> > Chad Wohlers
> > about to get out his machete and attack the Japanese knotweed in
> > Woodbury, VT USA
> > chadwohl at satucket.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> > Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 12:18 AM
> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> > Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] In the jungle
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 9/6/2015 8:30:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > gracecan at gmail.com writes:
> >
> >
> > I  worked on clearing the tree sized pokeweed  >>>>>
> >
> >
> > I have not encountered this plant here in Pennsylvania nor in
> > my home Upper Midwest States.
> >
> > Thank God!
> >
> >
> >
> > David Strang.
> >
>



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