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Mrs.Anteater said:
I am looking forward to two weeks vacation starting Monday. It is still really warm her plus humidity ends up above 30 degrees. I have a project of i stalling a floating deck in my backyard that I bought off my neighbours. Had four friends over on Sunday who carried it over ( I had 2/3 of the boards taken off). It was a breeze with so many hands helping! The move was really only 50 feet in distance, I took a panel of my fence off to have a direct line to go. Today I mixed concrete and anchored it. There will be a gazebo on top of it, so I wouldn’t want it to be blown away. It will be nice, but I feel I have only energy for one little step at a time. Still have to pour two more anchors, then put gravel in between the boards, put the boards back on, take the others off and treat them, built the gazebo. Rain in the forecast for tomorrow.
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That sounds like a lot of energy and application. Neither of us would get that much work done now that a flight of stairs is a problem.
 
I’ve been lucky that I didn’t develop a cough. I’ve had far worse colds and flus. Today I feel like it’s mostly gone. Taste and smell are back, nose is less stuffed up. I had extra test strips from botching up the instructions months ago - so today I put the fluid from one test vial on 2 test strips - still positive, both. But the line was light on both. I read that means the viral load is less so I guess Covid has almost left me. It’s a guest that hasn’t been “too” much trouble but I’ll be glad when it’s gone. It’s like the unexpected guest who’s moving and needed to borrow the couch for a few days, which crowded the place up inconveniently, then still left a couple things behind - and is taking their sweet time to clear them out lol. So maybe it was karma lol

(Btw I realize the test strips have 2 lines - The C line was dark and the T line was light this time. Yesterday both lines were dark.)
 
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It's dry dry dry here, no humidity. Even the beach didn't feel humid. Between the heat and lack of rain our grass is brown. Chemguy decided to not water. We're going to test out microclover, starting with a small area.
 
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It's dry dry dry here, no humidity. Even the beach didn't feel humid. Between the heat and lack of rain our grass is brown. Chemguy decided to not water. We're going to test out microclover, starting with a small area.
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I had to look up microclover. I figured is what it sounded like it is - a type of clover used instead of grass (or in addition to). I’d just never heard of it (I don’t garden or have a lawn so I’m way out of the loop unless like now, somebody mentions something and I feel compelled to look it up).

How cool. I think the totally covered lawns look prettier than grass lawns. I wonder how many four leaf microclovers are in the average microclover lawn? The kid in me loves that idea because I remember my grandpa picking four leaf clovers with me, or saving them for me in a book if he found one…he was good at it but it was still pretty rare. I imagine these lawns could bring in a pretty big haul of good luck! ;):giggle:
 
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Good morning! Sunrise on the deck, jumping spiders, graduation guests, microclover, concrete pouring, beach visits... we cover a lot of ground here! May it ever continue thus. The coffee cart is ready- tea water is hot with wide selection of bags, coffee is fresh brewed. Help yourself!

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Speaking of clover....my mom had a knack for finding four-leaf clovers. She would just be walking to the garden, or anywhere really, and she would spy one. My sister and I, as little girls, would look and look and look, and never find any.
 
I encouraged the clover to grow in our front lawn in Calgary as it added beauty and food for the bees plus not growing over about 5" high.

Some states encourage the planting of white clover to reduce water use and lawn mowing. I wonder if microclover is a variety of white clover.

Our lawn here has a variety of creeping plants including hedge bedstraw (horribly invasive and will grow to over 12" high), a form of creeping Charlie, clovers, and plants unknown to me along with different grasses.

I mowed most of the poison ivy patches yesterday and Wednesday I need to clear a lot of brush so I can get at the rest of the poison ivy. I run the mower through deep patches of meadow to clean out the residue from the poison ivy. Our mower is a cordless electric Green Works and it chews its way through meadow growth knee deep and chews up trees with stems up to the thickness of a pencil.
 
It is a variety of white clover, there's actually a few to choose from. In addition to growing lower it also flowers less so looks more like a lawn. Someone in the neighbourhood planted it, in a patch. We checked out their backyard already. They didn't really spend the time that's recommended at the start and it looks pretty good. Was iverdue for a cut which gave us a really great look at the amount of flowers.
Downside is seed seems fairly expensive, it's fine for testing out an area like what we are planning but if we do our entire lawn I'll be trying to source elsewhere.
 
The idea of mowing down poison ivy is worrisome to me. It is just so toxic! And I have read that lawn mower blades need to be cleansed with alcohol to get rid of the oil from the plants.

Whatever you do, don't burn the stuff you have mowed down @jimkenney12. Even if it looks dead.

I know someone who was badly affected by someone burning brush that contained poison ivy. And the brush fire was several hundred meters way across a river. True story.
 
I know It Is dangerous to burn. By mowing other vegetation, I used the juice from that vegetation to wash and scrub most of the residue from the poison ivy from the mower. On Wednesday I hit a bit of a stump that caused the blade to loosen though I thought I had done something worse. It made an unpleasant noise, but I made sure to mow a patch of ordinary vegetation before shutting it down for the day.. Yesterday I washed the underneath of the mower with a soapy solution before working on the mower.

After my first encounter ever with poison 8vy last summer, I did a lot of research. Mowing the poison ivy and then mowing other stuff is an experiment by me. If I end up getting a rash, then I will learn that is not sufficient. The patch makes a large L along two of the edges of that part of the lot bordering on two drainage ditched with one leg close to 100 feet and the other leg being a bit longer and varying in width from under 10 feet to over 20 feet. Most of the edge along the drainage ditched has trees along the bank with a varying amount of brush. My next task is to get rid of several of the smaller trees and most of the bushes to provide access to the poison ivy. Then I will be able to use a special hoe to dig it out. I clean my tools using the mud and water in the ditch. I plan to mow the patch frequently to eventually kill most of the poison ivy. Roundup does not work until the leaves are fully leafed out. By then the plant is already sending out runners and the spray does not work well. I should have it mostly eliminated by the end of 2023.
 
Good morning! Happy Saturday! Talk about lawns, with clover (good thing) and poison ivy (bad thing), cultivating the one and plans to eradicate the other, both sound like projects that will take time and effort, but improvements. For these and other topics, plus an opportunity to rest from the yardwork, the coffee cart is ready. Come on by and join us.

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Eradicating Poison Ivy seems rather extreme. Wouldn't some jail time and counselling suffice?
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(Yes, there's a Batman villain with plant-based powers by that name. Uma Thurman played her in one of the movies.)

Good morning. How's life? I'm a bit tired. Had a bit of a rough sleep so that's probably part of it. Still grass needs to be cut and floors need to be washed.
 
For even the well educated it is a tangled affair for the Ivy League legend that they knew .. when they didn't, due to disassociation from the base ... maybe an Eire ...
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
I am looking forward to two weeks vacation starting Monday. It is still really warm her plus humidity ends up above 30 degrees. I have a project of i stalling a floating deck in my backyard that I bought off my neighbours. Had four friends over on Sunday who carried it over ( I had 2/3 of the boards taken off). It was a breeze with so many hands helping! The move was really only 50 feet in distance, I took a panel of my fence off to have a direct line to go. Today I mixed concrete and anchored it. There will be a gazebo on top of it, so I wouldn’t want it to be blown away. It will be nice, but I feel I have only energy for one little step at a time. Still have to pour two more anchors, then put gravel in between the boards, put the boards back on, take the others off and treat them, built the gazebo. Rain in the forecast for tomorrow.
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