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I'm so glad to see this! I'm sure you'll turn the garden into a beautiful meadow. Do you plan on keeping a strictly cut flower garden? Or are you planning on expanding into things like crops, butterfly gardening, native rewinding eventually? What are your thoughts on permaculture? I love to watch your updates.
I understand that you need to till to plant bulbs, but what are your thoughts on the no-till method / approach?
So exciting!! Trees and bushes are always so deceiving in the amount of work you actually have to do to get rid of them haha You're doing great!
Just saw your video and I'm happy for you. Just came in from tilling my beds for next spring. I got my bulbs in yesterday. This is my first try at this too! I did a no till for my tulip bulbs and tomorrow I will be setting them in my bed. Best of luck to you and continue the good and hard work!
👆 – FIND LOVE ON THE BEST DATING SITE ♂🔥s👩
My mom lives in Virginia she has her zinnias in full sun they are beautiful. Thank you.
What an exciting property!
I think you got an amazing amount of work done, that tree was a beast! So glad to come along on your journey. You are going to have an amazing display of your gorgeous flowers this spring. We moved a little over a year ago from NE Ohio to SC. We down sized and I miss having room to plant plus went from 6a to 8a and learning what I can grow so in some ways I share your frustrations. It is all good and a learning experience. I know you will make it all beautiful and I wish you all the best! Love 💕 your channel! 🥰
Phenomenal job!! Your place is magical ☺️
Something to look forward to in spring! 😊
Those little tillers are so wonderful! You are doing an awesome job. I started watching your tulip and daffodil videos last year and am glad you’re still sharing content. I hope your new place grows wonderful flowers and happy times.
Oh gosh you did a lot.. I'm tired now 😅. Pastel pinks are my absolute favorite color flowers too.
Hi Tonya
How are you doing today 🌹🌹?
You’d be better off hooking a chain to that privot stump and pulling it up with a truck! They get out of hand so fast! But you did a great job clearing a bunch away! 😬
It's not that you are negative…putting myself in your shoes…it's the reality check! The potential for this property is limitless. It is perhaps a bit of the frustration of all the time and effort it takes to make this a blank canvas. Then you can make beautiful happen in more ways than ever before🐞💐🌻🥀🌷🌼🌳 You are off to a magnificent start!
Forgot to mention how awesome the "Tracking Bloom Period" pages are in your Garden Planner! I so needed this to help me see the bouquet material I will have and where the holes are that need to be filled.
Thanks for addressing non-native invasives and taking charge to help our natives! 👏 The barn looks great. Wildlife love brush piles! Finding random things on the property is part of the fun 😁
I just came back in after digging in my own garden, and I didn't do 6 hours of work, you have done great. 😊Can't wait to see how your property turns into a garden 😊
I'm a first year flower farmer and moved to a small horse farm in July. The infrastructure work, as a solo project, has been very hard. I feel your pain. Hang in there. There will be light on the other side, right?!
It's nice to see your face! 😁
And I see you decided on a new name.
Clearing out that barn area does look like a lot, but you're getting it done! 👏🏾
Ty for making an appearance although it may be brief! I think your so pretty & I love your smile/dimples! 🤗 I wish I could come help you, I known you have a lot of work ahead of you. But I believe you can get it done! The barn looks so much better! I would love to buy an old property like that. I love the idea of finding things that people once loved… I know corny… also love the motorcycle. I stopped riding after I had kids. I miss it though.
Looks great, I can only imagine how you felt by the end of that chainsaw wielding day, proud and pooped out. Get yourself some stump and vine killer, it's by Bonide, seen it on Garden Answer, it's great. I bet you can see the future of your farm already, it's going to be an exciting adventure, beautiful exciting adventure. And bonus, your dad gets an adventure too.
Congrats on your 1st planting😊
Oh My Gosh!!!!
THIS IS SOOO GREAT!!!!
I'm LOVING the progress you're making!
And that motorcycle!!
That bike looks like it was once pretty great, and could be again! Go Daddy-O!!!
Now…
For the Privet, or Ligustrum,
as they are also kmown.
Ugh.
You talk about those roses being a problem, well…
Chinese Privet, or Ligustrum, moved into one area of my yard about 15 years ago.
During that time I was having health issues and could not do any gardening.
At the time, I also had no idea the problems those Ligustrum bushes would cause.
The area they moved into was a wild area, full of native brush.
Considering my circumstances, I decided to leave it wild for the fauna, or the "wildlife", of which we have plenty.
That strip of land was so full of plants and understory trees you couldn't walk thru it.
There is also a nice Live Oak in there, it's approximately 60 to 80 years old.
Well.
Fast Forward 15 years.
And what a change has come to that area!!
ALL the brush is gone.
ALL the native plants are gone.
The ligustrum bushes have grown trunks more than 8 inches across.
AND that gorgeous Live Oak is suffering too.
It looks to be on its way out.
I do believe it's canopy has even gotten smaller over the years, altho I never measured it.
Why have all the native plants disappeared?
When I finally started paying attention to that area, I finally figured out that Ligustrum is allopathic.
Yep.
The ligustrum us systematically killing everything around it.
And while I have no proof, I'm pretty sure it's trying to kill that Oak tree too.
What my research found out is that the ligustrum leaves contain glyphosate!
Yep.
You read that right.
I've got round-up growing freely in my yard!
Straight from nature itself,
here ya go, she said,
have some round-up for free!
AAAAAHHHHHGGGGG!!!!!!
I guess I forgot to mention my yard is 100% organic.
No "cides" allowed!!
Or so I thought…
Well,
no wonder nothing but the ligustrum is growing over there!
And let me tell you,
those monster bushes are happy as clams in that spot!!
Mine look to be about the same width & height as the one you cut down.
Truly monsters.
It's hard to believe,
but the soil around those bushes,
about a 15 foot wide swath,
and 100 feet long, is 100% bare soil.
Except for ligustrums.
Zero weeds.
Of ANY kind.
Not even any Dandelions.
I have tried growing things by seed over there.
But no.
And there's not a lot of research that I could find testing the ligustrum roots for allopathic properties.
But my hunch is that the roots also contain SOMETHING which contaminates the soil to prevent ANYTHING except of course, ligustrums.
…sigh…
Oh-
And cutting them down simply makes them grow MORE.
They're worse than Bermuda grass that way!!
So, to recap-
The leaves DEFINITELY contain glyphosate.
So any of those floating around the garden are a problem.
And second- not even a big giant Oak tree older than me is (apparently) safe in the path of those Ligustrum killers!!
Then I read how this plant is taking over much of our natural & wild land all over our country.
Once I learned about it,
I opened my eyes to how much of it is surrounding my own small town here in Central Texas.
It's EVERYWHERE!!!
And it makes millions of seeds in berry form every year.
And yes, the birds just LOVE eating it…
It would take more than a decade to eradicate it from our little area if we started right now.
Which nobody is doing.
To add insult to injury,
plant Nurseries all over our country are still selling this plant as a landscape choice!!
I should add I have several other Oaks in my yard which are more than 50 feet away and are growing perfectly well.
Some are quite old, over 200 years as far as I can tell.
And they are all very healthy, so far…
It's just that one poor Oak soul who is caught up in the ligustrum storm.
So, draw your own conclusions.
I feel your pain about having to battle that "plant".
It's going to be an ongoing battle, no doubt.
Ligustrum
It's now the bane of my gardening existence.