2010: Your Goals - Page 3 - Wildlife Gardeners

TheLorax · 02-06-2010, 03:41 PM

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Equi - actual conversation just moments ago with my wife:

"So, there's someone on the board that is putting up a feeding platform for turkey vultures! Wouldn't that be -"

"No - don't even think about it."

Darn wife - she's always holding me back

Women. We are challenging at times. We can be incredibly difficult to live with while being incredibly difficult to live without.

My goals for 2010-
Learn to make my own soap, deodorant, lotion, shampoo, and lip balm
Learn to use my Hawkins Futura
Select vegetable seeds to start inside
Learn to grow more of my own food
Purchase more food from farmers markets
Purchase more organic food from grocery stores
Visit two natural areas with our little one
Register our little one for one nature camp

WG Admin · 02-08-2010, 05:49 PM

A new avatar
Learn more about native plants
Rip out our burning bushes

amelanchier · 02-08-2010, 06:38 PM

Sadly, 2010 and all subsequent years are going to be a bit boring for me. There's no more room for plants on our postage stamp property! Somehow just sitting back and watching it all develop doesn't seem very satisfying...

benj1 · 02-08-2010, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by amelanchier

Sadly, 2010 and all subsequent years are going to be a bit boring for me. There's no more room for plants on our postage stamp property! Somehow just sitting back and watching it all develop doesn't seem very satisfying...

Know the feeling. I've run out of winter activities myself. Things will get busy again shortly. Meanwhile, looking for something to keep me occupied, I submitted a volunteer application to help at a couple of the local state parks. I stopped at one a couple of weeks ago for a quick hike, and invasive exotics are all over the place. If I don't hear something by the next big thaw, I plan to chase down the volunteer coordinator.

amelanchier · 02-08-2010, 09:46 PM

heh heh I did the same thing! I'm just starting volunteering for the WNY Land Conservancy and writing some things for the Botanical Society newsletter.

Equilibrium · 02-08-2010, 09:54 PM

You could always sell your place to somebody who appreciates it and move to a bigger lot to start all over again... (nyuk nyuk nyuk)...

Tberri · 05-23-2010, 12:33 PM

Reserecting (sp) this thread from oblivion. GRIN !!I seem to have much humbler aspirations.
1) Keep the yard mowed
2)Plant everything I hauled home in pots!
3)use up all the garden stuff I have instead of buying.

Ta-Daaa!!! I will not turn my yard into a botanical wonderland, to para-phrase the commercial. I will however thin the daylilly beds and refrain from turning into Dow-Chemical Girl no matter how naked my willow trees, how holey my hosta leafs are...no matter how many millions of sow bugs I find....
No matter how much valium this will take!!

hazelnut · 05-23-2010, 12:38 PM

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Sadly, 2010 and all subsequent years are going to be a bit boring for me. There's no more room for plants on our postage stamp property! Somehow just sitting back and watching it all develop doesn't seem very satisfying...

Amelanchier: Is there any vacant or public property nearby that you could use as a teaching ground for kids? Community (vegetable) gardens are getting popular , but who is to say kids would not enjoy planning and planting something like a hedgerow.

amelanchier · 05-23-2010, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by hazelnut

Amelanchier: Is there any vacant or public property nearby that you could use as a teaching ground for kids? Community (vegetable) gardens are getting popular , but who is to say kids would not enjoy planning and planting something like a hedgerow.

Nothing too close by that I would have access to, unfortunately, but I have been working with the WNY Land Conservancy. Their main property has a lot of invasives, and I've been doing inventories & helping with control. Recently they brought some schoolkids in to pull garlic mustard. I think they got it all! Later this summer I'll lead a hike through the property. That's been satisfying, but what would be really exciting is finally getting to bring in local natives to fill the areas reclaimed from the invasives.

hazelnut · 05-23-2010, 08:41 PM

Ive wondered if just pulling the garlic mustard is enough to check its invasiveness.

Doesn't it just come back if there is not some sort of "nurse" crop to allow the native plants to return?

I am battling invasives here, too, but it seems that if a make some headway in one area, a different invasive moves in before I can actually get a landscape in place.

02-08-2010, 05:49 PM	#22
WG Admin WG Admin Join Date: Nov 2008	A new avatar Learn more about native plants Rip out our burning bushes __________________ "If gardening isn't a pleasure for you, chances are the work will merely give you a rotten disposition. If you'd rather be golfing or fishing, get a bumper sticker that says so, and forget gardening." Elsa Bakalar

02-08-2010, 09:54 PM	#26
Equilibrium Official Veggie Killer Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Illinois	You could always sell your place to somebody who appreciates it and move to a bigger lot to start all over again... (nyuk nyuk nyuk)... __________________ Arbol que crece torsido jamas su tronco se enderesa. He who dies with the most trees wins... native of course.

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02-08-2010, 06:38 PM	#23
amelanchier Native Plant Poster Child Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Buffalo, NY	Sadly, 2010 and all subsequent years are going to be a bit boring for me. There's no more room for plants on our postage stamp property! Somehow just sitting back and watching it all develop doesn't seem very satisfying...

02-08-2010, 09:46 PM	#25
amelanchier Native Plant Poster Child Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Buffalo, NY	heh heh I did the same thing! I'm just starting volunteering for the WNY Land Conservancy and writing some things for the Botanical Society newsletter.

05-23-2010, 12:33 PM	#27
Tberri Unicellular Fungi Join Date: May 2010 Location: Eastern USA	Reserecting (sp) this thread from oblivion. GRIN !!I seem to have much humbler aspirations. 1) Keep the yard mowed 2)Plant everything I hauled home in pots! 3)use up all the garden stuff I have instead of buying. Ta-Daaa!!! I will not turn my yard into a botanical wonderland, to para-phrase the commercial. I will however thin the daylilly beds and refrain from turning into Dow-Chemical Girl no matter how naked my willow trees, how holey my hosta leafs are...no matter how many millions of sow bugs I find.... No matter how much valium this will take!!

05-23-2010, 08:41 PM	#30
hazelnut WG Writer Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Greensboro, Alabama USA	Ive wondered if just pulling the garlic mustard is enough to check its invasiveness. Doesn't it just come back if there is not some sort of "nurse" crop to allow the native plants to return? I am battling invasives here, too, but it seems that if a make some headway in one area, a different invasive moves in before I can actually get a landscape in place.