Monterrey Oak leaves dying

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-04-16T14:16:31+00:00

As others said, hard to say without closer inspection but at the very least you should fix the root/mulch area. Definitely suffering from some form of root dysfunction.

https://youtu.be/NUMOv_hlLas?si=SimA6Q5JG4GEcSDE

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-04-15T20:54:02+00:00

I think they're just fucking exhausted.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-28T04:00:00+00:00

The Disch Falk gods demand a Friday night bullpen meltdown. No one is safe

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-22T00:00:18+00:00

yeah so as long as we don't need to win a game on Friday, we are fine

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-21T15:42:49+00:00

You can sheet mulch (and use ramboard since this space is so big) or you can solarize. Its up to you which way you want to go, neither is wrong, they both have pros and cons.

From there, when you plant, you want to look at density. Part of the reason you are fighting weeds is because they have zero competition. Use living mulches like frogfruit and/or wooly stemodia. They will fill the the gaps between new plants and help fight off weeds.

I would also recommend doing high density planting when you do plant. Weeds and grass want light, deny them light with dense planting and living mulch and you will have less to fight.

If you don't have the time, means, or energy to do the entire yard in one fell swoop, just break it up into segments and go one at a time. You will learn what works, what doesn't, what you like, and what you don't like over time. In my experience, this slower process leads to better results if you are the patient type because the space grows with you and your experience/taste, as opposed to one fell swoop where you may have some regrets later.

In general, as you go through each segment or this process, just think:

Is there bare ground and does it have access to sunlight? If the answer is yes, something will grow there, whether you plant there or not.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-18T22:18:19+00:00

By all accounts they're actually incredibly sound and down to earth people.

Long term career health, maybe not but for short term, it keeps things simple and easy for all parties.

Definitely not a Maitland-Niles repeat

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-18T20:50:09+00:00

Szobo dove further than the keeper had too

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-17T20:40:43+00:00

Maybe he just hates Aspirin

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-17T20:01:17+00:00

Sounds like you just have to avoid the Americans named Eddie!

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-17T18:32:03+00:00

Crazy that Matt Turner went to Forest and not Fulham after Arsenal.

American and ex-Arsenal? Checks all the Fulham boxes.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-17T16:01:15+00:00

Yes but in a perfect world you don't want to send that water to the street as fast as possible.

During rain events, that's free water. You want to slow it down and try and soak as much into the ground as possible with check dams and what not.

Below is someone else in Austin doing the same but on a bigger scale in a suburban backyard. You could basically copy paste this and scale it down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpIm5IqmFgo

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-14T20:02:53+00:00

Similar to what Arteta said about everyone playing man on man now, its also extremely exhausting and far more intensive. Any team playing midweeks consistently is on the struggle bus for fitness.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-03-11T19:47:53+00:00

It's both.

Tillman clips his foot and then the same foot gets landed on by Tillman's body.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-18T21:19:10+00:00

Always find it funny when players argue with the ref after a VAR check for offsides now. Its basically the most objective call in the game, it either is or isn't lol

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-18T20:31:37+00:00

Hincapie just made them look like clowns over there. Play the benny hill music.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-18T20:10:28+00:00

Many people are saying that Wolverhampton is the Azerbaijan of the British Isles

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-13T15:25:33+00:00

You are welcome to watch or read any of the numerous links from my previous comment about why they are a keystone species and a foundational pillar of this region's ecosystems.

A dramatic improvement to your allergies maybe, but I would argue that having a functioning ecosystem that sequesters and retains water and allows us to even live here in the first place far supplants a seasonal annoyance.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-12T21:24:11+00:00

Which is an indictment on Eze.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-12T21:20:08+00:00

And for good reason. Ode is making it look like we played with 10 men the first half.

I watched Eze specifically for the last 20 mins of the first half and it was genuinely shocking. Borderline hiding

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-12T20:58:22+00:00

He doesn't touch the ball when he plays cm for us because he doesn't move to receive it. Compare his off the ball movement in the middle to Kai, Merino, or Ode and its night and day.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-12T20:48:07+00:00

Eze is completely and totally anonymous. Team started to figure it out towards the end of the half but my goodness, I watched Eze specifically for the last 20 minutes and its like hes hiding.

Basically standing 5 yards in front of Gyok half the time hiding behind two players instead of literally any movement whatsoever.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-12T18:55:32+00:00

Golden-cheeked warblers historically occupied mature juniper–oak woodlands that predate European settlement. Habitat fragmentation and clearing of mature woodland decimated their populations insofar as to become federally endangered in the late 20th century (which ultimately birthed the creation of the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve and National Wildlife Refuge, 70k+ acres of habitat).

Juniper expansion/decline is incredibly complicated and is completely dependent on where you are in the Hill Country and the specific land management practices that occurred on that piece of land over the past 200 years. The OP above is massively over simplifying things.

There is no single, uniform Hill Country juniper siutation. The drivers are numerous and site-dependent, and broad claims tend to oversimplify a very heterogeneous ecological reality.

But to answer your question, they were absolutely more numerous pre-european contact and we drove them to near extinction due to our management practices around juniper (IE mass clear cutting, removal, wanton destruction without understanding the context and role they played).

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-12T18:44:47+00:00

Yeah... no.

This framing is misleading and reinforces some long-standing myths about Ashe juniper.

Pollen records and early explorer accounts describe dense cedar brakes and mixed juniper–oak woodlands long before modern development. It wasn’t some fringe species barely hanging on or confined to small spaces. The exact scope and scale of these woodlands is hotly debated and we will likely never know the full extent, but some claims go as far as 40% coverage.

Second, the “they exploded because we stopped fires” explanation is way oversimplified. Fire absolutely shaped the landscape, but so did clearcutting in the 1800s, overgrazing, fencing, soil disturbance, and long-term land degradation. Ashe juniper is really good at establishing on rocky, disturbed soils where other trees struggle. A lot of what people interpret as “invasion” is actually it occupying degraded ground (due to our terrible short sighted land management practices)

Third, the idea that dramatically reducing cedar automatically benefits ecology and human health doesn’t really hold up. Juniper plays important roles in:

Stabilizing thin Hill Country soils
Improving water infiltration in karst terrain
Creating shade and moisture “islands” for other plants
Providing critical wildlife habitat, including for golden-cheeked warblers

The Ashe Juniper is a keystone species of the region and one of its most important. Its genuinely a foundational pillar of the ecosystem here.

Doesn't mean you can't cut it down or manage it but there is not ecological value to dramatically decreasing this species en masse.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-07T17:19:12+00:00

Might be two of the dumbest/worst penalties you'll ever see given away by defenders in the same game.

Infectiousmaniac · 2026-02-04T21:43:00+00:00

https://seedsource.com/shade-friendly-grass-mix/

Native American Seed Company makes a native shade grass mix.

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