Gardening notes Entry: Blueberries Date: Wed Aug 12 10:18:45 EDT 2015 Should be ok in acidic soil (walnut trees). Nope.. Blueberry is susceptible to the juglone toxine in the roots. Walnut leaves can be composted because the toxin breaks down when exposed to air, water and bacteria Should work: - Black raspberry http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1148.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_occidentalis Entry: Hugelkultur Date: Tue Aug 25 04:54:49 CEST 2015 http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ Entry: Tomatoes in winter Date: Sun Nov 1 14:52:40 EST 2015 http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/CoopExt/4dmg/VegFruit/tomatind.htm Entry: Test soil acidity Date: Sat May 28 18:17:51 EDT 2016 http://preparednessmama.com/testing-your-soil-ph-without-a-kit/ Entry: Top soil Date: Mon May 30 14:09:16 EDT 2016 2 in x 20 ft x 3 ft (/ ( * 20 3) 6) 10 cubic feet 75 lb / ft^3 750 lb Entry: Weeds Date: Sat Sep 3 13:12:31 EDT 2016 canada goldenrod? http://www.ontariowildflower.com/goldenrods.htm american pokeweed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana bittersweet nightshade / woody nightshade solanum dulcamara: purple flowers, red berries (bitter taste) http://www.all-creatures.org/picb/wfshl-nightshade.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_dulcamara not the same as deadly nightshade: blue flowers, black berries (sweet, tomato taste) Atropa belladonna very toxic http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/photos/13-plants-that-could-kill-you/deadly-nightshade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropa_belladonna common milkweed http://joshfecteau.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/commonmilkweedfall.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_syriaca greater dodder (kleefkruid) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta_europaea wilde bloemenweide http://www.tuinadvies.be/artikels/aanleg_van_een_bloemenweide.htm Entry: weeds, invasive plants Date: Fri Jun 23 19:29:24 EDT 2017 http://www.michigan.gov/mdard/0,4610,7-125-1565-11250--,00.html prohibited: Cabomba caroliniana - Fanwort Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii - Cylindro Egeria densa - Brazilian elodea, also known as Anacharis Fallopia japonica - Japanese knotweed Heracleum mantegazzianum - Giant Hogweed Hydrilla verticillata - Hydrilla Hydrocharis morsus-ranae - European frogbit Lagarosiphon major - African oxygen weed Myriophyllum aquaticum - Parrot's Feather Nitellopsis obtusa - Starry Stonewort Nymphoides peltata - Yellow Floating Heart Salvinia molesta, auriculata, biloba, or herzogii - Giant Salvinia Trapa natans - Water Chestnut Restricted: Butomus umbellatus - Flowering Rush Lythrum salicaria - Purple Loosestrife Myriophyllum spicatum - Eurasian Watermilfoil Phragmites australis - Phragmites or Common Reed Potamogeton crispus - Curly Leaf Pondweed Prohibited Noxious: Agropyron repens = Elytrigia repens - quackgrass Cardaria draba - whitetop = hoary cress = perennial peppergrass Carduus acanthoides - plumeless thistle Carduus nutans - musk thistle Centaurea maculosa - spotted knapweed Centaurea picris - Russian knapweed Cirsium arvense - Canada thistle Cirsium vulgare - bull thistle Convolvulus arvensis - field bindweed Convolvulus sepium - hedge bindweed Cuscuta spp - dodder Cyperus esculentus, both seed and tubers - yellow nutsedge, chufa Euphorbia esula - leafy spurge Ipomea species - morning glory Nasella trachoma - serrated tussock Solanum carolinense - horsenettle Sonchus arvensis - perennial sowthistle Sorghum halapense, including sorghum almum and seed which cannot be distinguished from johnsongrass - johnsongrass Tribulus terrestris - puncturevine Restricted noxious: Abutilon theophrasti - Velvetleaf Allium canadense - Wild onion Allium vineale - Wild garlic Avena fatua - Wild oat Barbarea vulgaris - Yellow rocket Berteroa incana - Hoary alyssum Brassica juncea - Indian mustard Brassica nigra - Black mustard Datura stramonium - Jimsonweed Daucus carota - Wild carrot Plantago lanceolata - Buckhorn plaintain Raphanus raphanistrum - Wild radish Rumex crispus - Curled dock Seteria faberii - Giant foxtail Sinapis arvensis - Charlock Solanum species: including all of the following species and any other species with indistinguishable seed: - Nightshade complex Solanum dulcamara - Bitter nightshade Solanum eleagnifolium - Silver leaf nightshade Solanum nigrum - Black nightshade Solanum ptycanthum - Eastern black nightshade Solanum sarrachoides - Hairy nightshade Thlaspi arvense - Fanweed - Deregulated as of December 2015 Xanthium strumarium - Cocklebur Entry: Things I've seen Date: Fri Jun 23 20:04:32 EDT 2017 - broadleaf plantain - daisy fleabane - feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) - catchweed bedstraw (Galium aparine) - wild grape - blackberry Entry: weed identification Date: Fri Jun 23 21:06:31 EDT 2017 http://www.bhg.com/gardening/pests/insects-diseases-weeds/types-of-weeds/ https://pestid.msu.edu/ Entry: daisy like flowers Date: Tue Jun 27 15:25:17 EDT 2017 Feverfew? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanacetum_parthenium Entry: more plant pictures Date: Tue Jun 27 22:00:42 EDT 2017 http://www.victorianflora.com/VictorianFlora/All-Plants/Plants/ Entry: tall weed Date: Wed Jun 28 00:32:44 EDT 2017 compass plant? not flowering yet... leaves aligned with north and south