Chickadee Hill is nestled in Southern Indiana. Brown County to be
exact. Gnaw Bone, ever heard of it?
Since we share our environment with some fairly dense forest, we often
joke about our yearly 'beating back the forest floor. When all our
efforts of clearing out results in a mass profusion of new growth, we just
sheepishly shrug our shoulders and say, "The best we can do is beat back the
forest floor and enjoy.
Since the topic here is 'Pushing Spring', the photo on the left is an
early spring photo of the up-top-out-back northern forest border. This
photo is after some beating back has occurred. Imagine it the rest of
the year with over grown scrappy brush, intrusive saplings and horrific
thorn bushes. If you get caught in those thorn bushes, whoooo whee you'll be
hurting!
Last year we decided on a 'barrier reef' of just plain mud. That
worked somewhat efficiently in keeping some of the overgrowth from
encroaching over the yard. Then again, we had mud. Lots and lots of
mud. Granddaughter #1 thought it a great place to plant her packages
of 'wild flower seeds'. Sooner rather than later the forest floor did
encroach upon the 'barrier' and we hada hard time distinguishing the newly
planted wild flowers from the weeds and sticker bushes.
Discovery! Did you know that when you hit sticker bush roots with a
roto-tiller, the chopped up roots just grow more sticker bushes?
Imagine that?
I took a different tactic with the south side of the up-top-out back
forest floor. I'm thinking MY way will be better in the long run.
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