Anna Hutchins

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While I don't recognize the exact variety of bush honeysuckle, I'm sure it's one of the extremely invasive ones. In the midwest we have something called the Amber honeysuckle, (Lonicera maackii), that will actually form a true monoculture under trees and kill all natives where it's established. They are bad news.  Normally most non natives have some benefits and aren't as bad as people say, but honeysuckles are an exception.

Anyways, I have a tiny property and I literally just prune them off with normal pruners. If you keep doing that they eventually starve and die.
1 week ago

M.J. Wayne wrote:Not sure what this is...
(Southern Missouri between Black, and Current Rivers).






I'm pretty sure that's a dobsonfly.  We were just looking at pictures of those in my daughter's bug book.  The larva are aquatic and the pincers are for mating, not biting.  I've never seen one in person so I'm jealous.
1 week ago
Thanks for sharing! I love gnarled, sprawling, ancient trees. There's something greater than the sum of their parts there.  They're not just bigger, with wider trunks and branch spread.  They have gravitas and personality thrown in.  Maybe you can just feel their age.
1 week ago
Courtesy of my brother.  
2 weeks ago
Baking soda dissolved in water and sprayed on plants is a fairly common fungal remedy. It makes the pH high enough that some fungus has a hard time growing on plant surfaces.  I remember also hearing a guy say that you should put molasses in the soil because it activates a whole bunch of microbes. I don't know if brown sugar would do the same thing? Honestly mixing them together sounds counterproductive. I think you would want to do either one or the other since one you spray on the leaves and one you use as a soil dench.
3 weeks ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use dehydrated rhubarb for?  Is it for pies and you just rehydrate it? Or do you use it ground up as some sort of seasoning?  I'll need to know this if I can ever get even one rhubarb to not die in my garden.
3 weeks ago
https://ask.extension.org/kb/faq.php?id=136009#:~:text=Expert%20Response,Thanks%20for%20asking!

So this is interesting. Apparently Siberian elms are not that allelopathic according to this person. Chinese elms are allelopathic and people get Siberian and Chinese elms mixed up all the time. Now that being said, I'd love to know this person's source material. I have seen monocultures of Siberian elms around my area.
2 months ago
A beloved woman passed away who was survived by her husband and three best friends.  Her friends were a brunette, a redhead, and a blond.  

At the funeral her husband shared eloquently about their life together then asked if her friends had anything to add.

The brunette came forward and said....

"Plethera."

"Thank you," said the husband.  "That means a lot."

Then the redhead came forward and said...

"Bargain."

"Thank you, that means a good deal," added the husband.

Finally the blond came forward and said...

"Water pit."

"And thank you," said the husband.    "I know you meant well."
3 months ago
It might need to be reported if you haven't reported in 2 years. I would suggest caution however because repotting often leads to the death of a plant. Suddenly your plant has empty soil around its roots (therefore it doesn't dry very fast.). It makes fungal issues and fungus gnats a sudden concern.  That being said, if you can pull the plant out of the pot and see a whole bunch of white roots, repotting is probably necessary. Try not to get a pot that's more than 2 inches bigger in diameter than your current pot.  That will mitigate the fungal issues.

Also what are you watering it with? A lot of municipal water has a surprising amount of salt in it, and that can build up over time.  I find that plants will start to show yellow edges of leaves as they start to show the salt poisoning. You can literally flush the soil out by taking your plant to the shower and just adding a ton of water in the soil several times. It might also need some organic fertilizer if you haven't fed it in 2 years.

Edit:  I also forgot to mention, if you pull the plant out of the pot and you see a bunch of brown squishy roots, that's definitely over watering. Cut away as much of the dead roots as possible, they'll just spread disease. And then water less often. Peace lilies tend to show you they want water by wilting.
4 months ago