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Knotweed round one

In Mexican Bamboo, I wrote about my preparations for eliminating the swale of Japanese knotweed in our front yard. Now that it’s early June, it’s had 3-4 weeks to grow. Left alone, most of what is currently there would not grow much more. For the rest of the growing season, it would invest its growing …

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Posted byRonJune 6, 2015June 7, 2015Posted incountry lifeTags: landscaping

Cleaning up from Arthur

Front view at time of purchase

Tropical storm Arthur came through New Brunswick and downed so many trees that we were 8 days without power. The longest power outage I had experienced prior to that was under 36 hours. Our new property had 10 trees blown over. I expect that all of them were taken down by Arthur. While the trees …

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Posted byRonDecember 1, 2014Posted incountry lifeTags: chainsaw, cleanup, yard work

Mexican Bamboo

Japanese Knotwood

Both the property in Miramichi and the one in Lakeville had a colony of Mexican Bamboo (or Japanese Knotweed). It’s a fast growing invasive species that is capable of killing off most vegetation that does not grow taller than it does. I succeeded in killing it off on both properties. In both cases, it took …

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Posted byRonNovember 22, 2014Posted incountry lifeTags: landscaping
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