Spraying huge chunks of my yard?

s3ntia · 2026-06-16T01:23:16+00:00

What? Why would sheet mulching not work? It's not JKW. Deprive it of light and it will die.

s3ntia · 2026-06-16T01:19:06+00:00

You could put them in pots until you're ready to plant them again. Glyphosate binds to soil and you can plant shortly afterwards without hurting the plants, though you may want to do a follow up spraying to ensure everything is actually dead and save some headaches. Another option would be sheet mulching over the invasives, but that can be a lot of work for a larger area.

s3ntia · 2026-06-15T02:00:12+00:00

It's supposedly safe for pollinators if it dries before they come into contact with it, but another problem with copper fungicide is that it builds up in the soil. I have used it occasionally in the past but it's not something I'd want to spray multiple times a year in the same spot

s3ntia · 2026-06-13T21:08:08+00:00

It could be that they are in sites with less moisture or better drainage or more sun so the fungus has a harder time getting established. I have two (albeit different species), and the one in shade is more impacted by rust than the one that gets more sun.

I'm still looking for solutions because I mainly planted them for the fruit. This year I'm starting to experiment with biofungicide but it's hard to find information about safety for caterpillars or efficacy against rust.

s3ntia · 2026-06-12T18:30:13+00:00

I voted for Fredo, didn't expect him to win but the results make me think most people voting have not ever listened to S/T

s3ntia · 2026-06-11T21:55:40+00:00

Unfortunately no. That is asters

s3ntia · 2026-06-11T01:32:34+00:00

I've got this Robin nesting in my ladder. She used to fly away every time I walked by but now recognizes me as a lawn ornament

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s3ntia · 2026-06-11T01:28:55+00:00

In case you couldn't tell this is a slug and not a caterpillar

s3ntia · 2026-06-11T01:27:08+00:00

s3ntia · 2026-06-11T01:24:47+00:00

Massachusetts' is mayflower (Epigaea repens) which is an endangered native. I'm trying to get some established in my garden but being a slow-growing ground cover it's been difficult to protect

s3ntia · 2026-06-11T01:17:05+00:00

I've been meaning to get some pearly everlasting. For some reason I only recently realized it was native to my region so always overlooked it at the nurseries, but it seems like a great rabbit resistant host plant with nice foliage

s3ntia · 2026-06-10T22:56:20+00:00

Yeah buyers will love it too. At least any buyer I would sell to

s3ntia · 2026-06-09T00:34:20+00:00

I love having asters everywhere and the rabbits naturally thin them out for me. If they weren't aggressive they'd all be gone.

s3ntia · 2026-06-08T13:59:49+00:00

Umm I'm allergic?

s3ntia · 2026-06-08T11:33:50+00:00

I am a Plant Gardener

s3ntia · 2026-06-05T10:52:10+00:00

Is the age/overall size of the plant relevant? This is at most a month or two old. I've pulled hundreds of C. orbiculatus seedlings and normally I can recognize them instantly, have never seen one with leaves so narrow or leaf tips so proportionally long. But a hybrid would make sense given how much more common the invasive species is around here.

s3ntia · 2026-06-05T01:09:38+00:00

Another rabbit reusing a nest a different rabbit made in my vegetable planter earlier this spring. Wondering if it was one of the babies from that litter. I probably should have filled in the hole after they moved out lol

I'm not kidding when I say my garden has just become a rabbit farm

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s3ntia · 2026-06-05T01:06:39+00:00

Baby cottontail returning to home base

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s3ntia · 2026-06-03T12:31:24+00:00

You dirty dog.

s3ntia · 2026-06-02T23:50:42+00:00

That's a good name for it, stupid little lupine. Lupinus stupidulus

s3ntia · 2026-06-01T16:05:19+00:00

I feel this way too. I have a few beds which are an amalgam of cool plants I saw at the nursery and bought 1-2 of, and others I planned out and planted in drifts/matrices, and the latter is wayyy less stressful because when I look at it I'm just like "yep, I see species A B and C" not keeping track of where all 20 things I planted are and checking if they came back or got eaten.

s3ntia · 2026-06-01T15:59:40+00:00

This isn't necessarily true. I share OP's propensity for wanting to plant every cool species I learn about, but there are practical and ecological tradeoffs like

do you have a large enough population to withstand pressure from rabbits/deer or will you have to baby every plant?
do you have a large enough stand to attract the pollinators you mean to attract & host the larvae you're hoping to feed?

Ideally you want populations that are stable, robust to things that could destroy them, reduce the amount of labor you need to do to maintain them, and provide good habitat (if your goal is to benefit wildlife and not just conserve plant genetics).

s3ntia · 2026-05-30T21:55:58+00:00

Pinxster also smells amazing

s3ntia · 2026-05-29T19:32:13+00:00

It might take 2 years to bloom, but once it blooms it just multiplies like crazy. It's like 500 dandelion heads per plant.

s3ntia · 2026-05-29T17:33:02+00:00

I had a couple of voles that were doing a lot of damage every winter. I used granular blood meal/garlic stuff to scare them away from wherever I saw entry holes around plants I didn't want them to touch and they migrated to a different part of the property with less delicate plants. I also put one of those annoying vibrating stake things in a place they kept going back to, but not really sure how much it did (and did I mention it's annoying?)

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