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Good luck! I’m happy to help anyway I can!!! Thx for watching!🙏

Thank you for watching. I ended up pulling as much mugwart and snipped the bloomed flowers on GR. I then quarantined the area, and used a selective herbicide on the mugwort. Fingers crossed!!!🤞 was mind racking!

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Ummm ok, 👌

Right on! When the home was built, they stripped all the topsoil and left us with hard clay with no organic matter. Thx for watching and taking the time to leave a nice comment. 🙏

Thank you so much, to be quite honest that’s exactly what I just did. I removed all the seed heads of the mugwart and the Canadian golden rod, took me a long time, but I did it. I also used a selective herbicide called imazapic. When I set up my native meadow, I used a custom imazapic tolerant selection of native wildflowers. That was kind of my plan to establish the meadow, and I’m learning that it is also a way to continue when the invasive shiw up. Thank you so much for your comment and thank you so much for watching, your comment really gave me confidence and hope. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you, that’s some good advice, I spent better day cutting seeds of Canadian goldenrod off. So aggressive 🤯

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@@jirik2435 I believe you’re missing the point. And that’s borderline offensive.

#electroCulture. Combined with what you already do will equal your best harvests you’ve ever seen. Cost? Next to nothing. Knowledge base?? A five minute video and an open mind is even enough.

Just needed some copper wire. After the two world wars somehow this vital knowledge was nearly lost. If you have access or interest you’ll find all sorts of incredible information about electro culture. Please have an open mind as the results are amazing and there’s so many additional techniques one can and will surely want to learn after seeing the successes with the most basic simple technique. Everyone I’ve seen utilized it has been successful. Right off the bat with sprouting seeds i saw the difference I love seeing this knowledge spread and spread it does as nothing works better than seeing the results.

@@CoincidenceTheorist would love to know more. Please send video if you have one.

@@CoincidenceTheorist sounds awesome!

Hi Mark, thank you so much for watching and reaching out, the mugwart is absolute beast - when I burned it before it seemed like it got thicker, that’s the scary part around this. It’s now a fine tough mat since I mow it down. So I think I’m going to use a selective herbicide and quarantine the pockets of areas that are affected. As for thegoldenrod, yes, it’s such a beautiful native plan, and you’re right it is super aggressive. My local ecologist warned me about it when he saw my yard, at a time, I told him it was part of the seed mix that I planted, because I thought it was that GR grey species, but it turned out to be Canadian. Anyways, thank you so much for checking out the video and leaving a comment and I really appreciate your suggestion to reach out to Kyle. Have a great day!☀️☮️

Ohhh, that’s a new one. I’ll look that up. Thank you so much for watching and for the suggestion. 👍🏼🎃☮️🙏 Can you elaborate a bit more? 🙏

@@AumsAcre I'm not sure if this is what they meant, but you can cut and let the plant wilt 2 or 3 times per season. So essentially just cutting the plant before it can reproduce and preferably often enough that the roots will just die back eventually because they lack the resources to sustain themselves. This has the benefit of being relatively easy as you don't have to worry about cut quality and just go for it and you also don't have to worry about spreading the plant roots or seeds that haven't germinated to other areas in the meadow if you dig them up. The negatives are that it takes years and it may not be very aesthetically pleasing, though I do think after the plant has fully wilted you can compost it regularly. You can also cut the flowers off so they are unable to make seed and put them in a bowl or give to someone and the flowers are quite beautiful. But yeah, just make sure it can't go to seed to prevent further spreading and keep killing the green parts a few times per growing season and eventually it just tires out and dies.

@@Heheikki thanks, great insight!!!

Good idea! And thx for the support. I think that the rhizomes would still be in tact, even with burning. That’s eggar did with Mideast and it came back thicker. I pulling out now. So hopefully that will work. IDK. 🤷

Canadian goldenrod is a prairie plant so if you burn it, itll come back stronger, as all prairie plants evolved with fire and need fire to stimulate best growth. Youve literally been doing the thing that helps it grow best lol. You can kill a rose or hydrangea by burning, but not fire evolved plants. I think people should learn about what conditions create meadows and prairies before adopting them into their landscape. Because those plants shouldnt get maintained (or eradicated) with the same methods used for garden store ornamentals.

@@kareharpies hey there. Thx for the heads up. The only thing is I haven’t tried burning the natives, especially the goldenrod. The plant I’ve been burning is mugwort, and it seems they come back stronger too.

@@AumsAcre im not surprised mugwort found your meadow. It loves low nitrogen soil, which is unfortunately the same conditions wildflower meadows and prairies create and thrive in. Hmm, it does hate acidic soils and wet soils so maybe thats a starting point for some creative solution building? I would dig out as much as I could by hand and then dump a bag of soil acidifier over the particular area and see if it persists in spring. If it doesnt, you've now prepped the ground for a beautiful blueberry bush 😅! I hope you figure something out but I think this might be a multi year approach.

@@kareharpies no that’s a great suggestion!!! Thank you!🙏

Thx for the motivation! Made me smile!!!! 🙏☮️🙏☮️😄

Now thats some great advice! Great POV!!! Thank you watching and commenting. For me, it’s long term. I have a “decent” grasp on chemicals, and my neighbor is a scientist, so he has a diverse understanding. Together, we may have a chance. I definitely want to have a long-term diverse meadow, four season meadow, so I think I know the answer, because right now I’m headed towards the monoculture. Thank you so much again. I really do appreciate you and everyone else taking the time to offer some insight. 🙏☮️🙏☮️🙏☮️

@AumsAcre no problem. I've spent quite a bit of time thinking about some of these things as I figure out how to manage my own land. My land needs to be generating income for me, so I'm focusing on growing things that I can sell, but the way I grow those things needs to promote biodiversity, both in the plants I grow, and in the wildlife that are impacted by my management. I don't like using synthetic chemicals, but I'll gladly do it if the long term benefits outweigh the short term cost.

@@percussionof12 oh thats so cool, you have a farm?

@AumsAcre yeah, it's not much just yet, but my wife and I bought a neglected piece of land a bit over a year ago and we've been working on cleaning it up and getting it functional again. About 20 acres of it has been cultivated for at least 5 or 6 years with nothing allowed to grow on it until last year, and our biggest challenge right now with land management is figuring out how to restore the soil health while still making the land profitable. We had it seeded to a mix of grasses and legumes for hay last year, but this year we really only had a few species of weeds that came back. The plan for next year is to allow everything to germinate, and then spray glyphosate to kill it off before interseeding a cereal crop with a diverse forage mix. Hopefully after that, we can go at least 5 years with no tillage and no chemicals, and alternate between cutting hay and using the land to graze livestock.

@@percussionof12 oh wow that sounds absolutely amazing. That would be really cool if you can document it and share your story, I love personally watching stuff like that and how people develop their land and what people do with the things that they grow on it, it’s absolutely amazing to me. That sounds like a lot of work too. 20 acres is a ton of land, wow that is just incredible. I wish you the best of luck. I hope you stay in touch. Would love to see how things go for you.🍀🍀🍀🍀

Thank you so much for watching. Ok, here’s a video I did a couple years ago that will describe the entire process of how to start your meadow.. th-cam.com/video/JP_MIrYj93Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=S0FfLn5a6ib6EPbM But I’ll break it down the way that I learned it and the way that I had success. Fall is the best time for both plants and seed. Our meadow was all seed seeded in the Fall. If using Plants, fall is more favorable because there’s more moisture in the air and the plants can settle in you don’t have to worry about watering them. If using seed, lots of the native seeds need the winter for a cold stratification. Meaning they need to chill for a certain amount of hours to be activated. If you’re doing seed, you also want to seed down a cover crop for the fall and winter, generally at this time you seed with oats, you would use a cover crop because if you’re going with seed, you have to clear the vegetation first. Which means you want to kill the existing vegetation. That will leave you with bare soil, and so the soil doesn’t turn into mud, or erode, you need a cover crop that will keep the structure in place. Whatever you do try not to disturb the soil, if you do, you will definitely get invasive. Our first year we removed the lawn, what was left of it, and then we used a specific plateau tolerance, specialized/custom, native seed mix. With the plateau tolerant species seed mix, we applied a selective herbicide (plateau) that spring for any of the invasives or vegetation that that popped up, these specific seeds were immune to the plateau and grew regardless. If you watch that video I left the link for, I describe everything in detail, it’s really a lot simpler than it seems. Good luck and if you want any more input or advice, I’m more than happy to help. Thank you again for watching, I really do appreciate the support. ☮️🙏☮️🙏☮️🙏☮️🙏☮️

I didn’t realize it, but I left you the link to the same video that you just commented on. I thought you were commenting on another video. My apologies.

Sow seed in late fall to winter, plant bulbs in early spring.

@@kaden.slone04_biology def!!!!

Yes, for sure that’s the way. I understand it as well, I got lucky. My neighbor is a scientist and he pretty much understands how these are besides work and how they break down. So that’s an excellent point you make. Thank you so much for watching I really do appreciate the support. Have a great day!

Consider reaching out to a National Wildlife Refuge near you. They probably spray or they will understand your situation and offer good advice. Perhaps there are Annuals like squash or peas followed by a native grass or bush that can compete better with help. The point being that this weed will be can be controlled, eventually, without spray once you figure out what lesson the weed is teaching you. This weed has a story to tell…it’s telling you to add sand …or straw or rocks…or drainage or several small ponds or a fountain/stream bed or mushrooms or stumps or maybe remove something…. maybe it’s spoiled rotten on wood chips? You can do this! Learning what This weed has to teach will create a far better meadow than what you originally planned…and that’s as it must be. The plan got you started …good start! This weed is a mocking critic of your plan, but fear not, the right plant allies will help you given the opportunity.

Yes, definitely golden rod is a native, the Canadian goldenrod is a little bit more invasive though than others in my yard, and yes, so important this time of the year, it’s a magnet! I’m still learning more about it, so I’m starting to pull it out right now. My ecologist warned me about Canadian Goldenrod, which is why I’m concerned. Thank you so much for the support and the suggestions are awesome!!! 🙏☮️

Thanks so much for the support and the comments. GREAT ANALYSIS, That seems to be exactly the same down here, I really think disturbing the mugwart stimulated in more though, ughhhh. It’s seems thicker now, so I’ll have to make some sort of plan. Fingers crossed! Would love to be Maine though, I’ve never been! Thank you so much for watching! ☮️🙏☮️🙏☮️

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Yes, we have a playlist of me development some just cinematic area of photography others educational. At the end of the day, I just wanna say thank you so much for all your support and all your motivation that pushes me each and every day.

I’m not sure if that last comment I sent went through, so I’ll try again. Your meadow sounds amazing, I wish I could see it, I’m sure 3 acres is tough to maintain. But it seems like you’ve got the right attitude and a great formula. Ours is a little bit smaller, so it’s definitely more manageable. But I really do appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment, as well as watching the video. Thank you so much and I hope you have a great day.❤️☮️

Yes, for sure, we try and let things naturalize as much as possible. But this is headed towards a monoculture and that’s not gonna be good for anything. So our idea is to keep some diversity and let nature do what it’s going to do. Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment. I really appreciate it.🙏☮️

Ain’t that the truth. I’ve been pretty diligent with this mugwart, and anything I do it seems like it actually comes back stronger. The Goldenrod issue is new. I feel like I can just pull that stuff out, and I don’t want to pull it all, but I’m going to give it a shot. Thank you for watching. Good luck with your yard.🙏☮️

I agree the Canadian Goldenrod steals show, and the pollinators absolutely love it. I have been pulling some out myself, when you pull yours out, does it come back thicker or does it control? Thank you so much for watching! 🙏☮️ I really do appreciate the support!

I’m so torn! Everything that I have done with the mugwart has made it come back stronger and thicker.

@@AumsAcre I had an area of periwinkle, so I threw a bunch of common milkweed seeds over it and the milkweed won the battle. The periwinkle is probably still there but you can't see it, and the milkweed is doing great. Much less work than digging and pruning forever.

@@AumsAcre I also had Japanese knotweed. I actually like the plant but to deal with it, snipped it off every week diligently, and then planted zig zag goldenrood, and it's winning as well.

@@joanfrellburg4901 now that’s an awesome success story!

@@joanfrellburg4901 actually that’s a real success story because that Japanese knotweed is pretty tough!

Thank you for the advice, great point about the dormancy, after I threw the video out there I realized when I watched it back that I’m gonna need those sugars. Thank you for the reminder. I really do appreciate you taking the time to write some thoughts down and to connect in. Hopefully I’ll be able to eradicate this, my neighbor and I are going to be probably applying some herbicide in the next couple weeks. Fingers crossed.!

When you use the knife, what are you specifically doing? Are you going in and removing all the roots, the rhizomes?

thank you! Its a battle...

That’s a great story!!! Thx for sharing. Your message is true, anyone can do it!!! ❤️🙏

@@AumsAcre The other thing, half the plants were planted by the birds and the wind, not me lol. So many volunteers showed up, New England aster, Virginia creeper, wild grape, heath aster, tall white aster, evening primrose, white cedar, columbine, goldenrod, milkweed. Thanks for the video.❤🎶

@@joanfrellburg4901 that’s the best way too. Shows us how nature has the last laugh!!! 😂

@@AumsAcre It's a beautiful surprise isn't it. Especially since it looks almost intentional, like I know what I'm doing, when in actuality, I have no clue LOL.🤡

@@joanfrellburg4901 are you getting any invasives?

That’s a great question, thanks for reaching out. So I find that it does need some moisture. But this particular button bush was an absolute beast. During the first year, it got severely rubbed by a deer the day before I put a fence around it. I was so bummed out. But I let it go and the following spring nothing was happening and it was about to cut it back and I saw a little green shoot… And it took off from there. The Made a site visit to Bowman‘s nursery and saw buttonbush there and realized how much moisture it actually needed. So I provided about 24 inches of wood chips around the base of the stem of the bush extending out about 4 to 6 feet. I don’t water it ever after that I applied the chips. And finally on the third year it flowered. This is the fourth year I’ve had the bush and it’s absolutely thriving. I know this is lengthy but all in all, if you heavily mulch it you’ll be fine. Hope that helps. 🙏☮️

@@AumsAcre That's VERY helpful! Thank you. I prefer lengthy in depth answers, so it's wonderful. Excited to see future videos from you.

@awildapproach 🙏❤️☮️

Thank you so much!

Sure thing!!!

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Oh wow, a poet! The One who is connected, beyond, free. Thank you!!! 🙏 Thank you!!! 🙏

We do have tons of insects, reptiles, birds. It’s like a Disney movie. Thank you so much for watching and commenting! 🙏🙏🙏🐝🐝🐝

🙏🐝🙏🐝🐝 thank you!!!😊

Awe thank you sooooo much!

thank you so much! 🙏🏻

Omg , it’s literally a fireworks 💥 show!!! Absolutely stunning! Thank you for watching!!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Hey By the way - we just made a video update on the Wildflower meadow. To highlight the results and showcase the flowers. Its about 4 minutes of photography. Im reaching out because you commented on the original How to Create a Wildflower meadow and Im trying to promote it... ...if you have the time a full view thumbs up comment and maybe a share would be so appreciated. And if I can do anything in return, please say the word. Thank you so much. Heres the video - th-cam.com/video/HhR3j5NqO2U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0iuFIh-Jml5WMweD

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Hi Neighbor!!! So exciting!! You’re probably right around the corner from me. Anyways, yes, there are some companies out there, but there is one in particular that has the highest level of integrity. wildlawn.com They are a USDA level 4 company along with itheir sister Company Archewild. Wildlawn installs, Archewild source and grows seeds. They have basically developed a GPS system where they identify and collect the actual seeds themselves and then grow them in their own nursery. Why is this so important? - because the level of integrity of the seed will allow for your site conditions to thrive. I know them personally, and they are awesome. Good honest people as well. Just let them know that Michael sent you, get nothing out of it. And don’t forget to send some before and after pictures, I’d love to see it. 🙏🙏🙏🌱🌱🌱🌱

Oh the deer yeah, the deer as weak as nature is going to do what it’s going to do. That’s why Wildlawn will select along with your input the proper seeds that will thrive. I still battle the deer every single day. They absolutely love my New England, Astors. But at the end of the day, what is supposed to be there will remain there, Nature won’t discriminate, it will create an organic meadow for you. But in full transparency, there’s nothing like having a beautiful brilliant meadow filled with grasses and wildflowers, and a deer in meadow browsing. Inviting nature for us only put a smile on our face. There’s no greater reward than giving back! And once we gave back, we understood that the reward was not for us, but for all creatures.

@@AumsAcre Thank you so much for referring wildlawn. I will definitely be contacting them. As for the wildlife, I am learning to adopt a live and let live outlook. I’m that way with people so it should be easy to do when it comes to animals. I tell myself that if I keep providing a salad bar I should expect the customers to come. Besides, what is cuter than fawns and baby rabbits? I’m going to share this video with my neighbors who are also very interested in converting part of their lawn to meadow. One is a beekeeper. His bees visit my property and we need to keep them happy. I’ll keep you posted as to my progress. Thanks, again!

Good luck!!! If you have any questions, let me know!!! 🙏

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Thank you oh wise one, please grace us with your presence!

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Once a year. In Spring. Lots of beneficial bugs overwinter in some hollow stems. I’ve manual cut back with pruners to 4 inches, takes a long long time. But you can set tractor to 4/6 inches that way too. That’s what I did this year. You can you a weed trimmer, powerful one with thick gauge or those steel blades too. The other alternative is to not cut it back. Nature never cuts back it’s Meadows, so that’s probably the best way. It just depends on how tidy you want to keep things. I let mine go pretty long this year until I cut it back. Hope that helps and good luck. Let me know how it turns out. 🙏🙏🙏

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Hey there, I just shot a follow up video to this one, about some unexpected things that I wish I would've known. It's a short one five minutes but well worth the time. I hope you don't mind, but I'm trying to just circulate it a little bit more, so I'm sending everybody who commented on this video the link to the new video. Anyways, have a great day thank you. th-cam.com/video/sjqE2qdTZUw/w-d-xo.html

Thank you for tuning in…. Your support is incredible!

Wow, that’s incredible, yeah I think I’m gonna add more pawpaw in the fall. I missed my window this spring. But I really appreciate you chiming in and watching the video. Thank you so much, and thank you so much for the support. Have a great day.! 🙏🙏🙏☮️

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It’s actually not hard. The reality is it takes patience and researching what thrives in your own mini ecosystem. I would observe your surroundings and check out what grows natively already. That’s a good place to start.

Hey By the way - we just made a video update on the Wildflower meadow. To highlight the results and showcase the flowers. Its about 4 minutes of photography. Im reaching out because you commented on the original How to Create a Wildflower meadow and Im trying to promote it... ...if you have the time a full view thumbs up comment and maybe a share would be so appreciated. And if I can do anything in return, please say the word. Thank you so much. Heres the video - th-cam.com/video/HhR3j5NqO2U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0iuFIh-Jml5WMweD

@@AumsAcre Thanks. Got me thinking of creating a template.

@@stingingmetal9648 yes sure thing. It’s so worth it. The insects a will love you, the birds will sing!!!!

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Thanks so awesome!!! Thank you for watching! Good luck! 🍀👍

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@@AumsAcre did do. I shared as well. What a property!

@@bill8985 🙏🙏🐝🙏🐝🐝🐝🙏🐝🙏🙏🙏🐝🐝🐝 thank you Bill

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Thank you so much! I’m not sure if Archwild services out there, but they are the best! archewild.com

Btw they have a sister company called Wildlawn - facebook.com/share/p/tU6FL9Cjn2uQY1pH/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Hey By the way - we just made a video update on the Wildflower meadow. To highlight the results and showcase the flowers. Its about 4 minutes of photography. Im reaching out because you commented on the original How to Create a Wildflower meadow and Im trying to promote it... ...if you have the time a full view thumbs up comment and maybe a share would be so appreciated. And if I can do anything in return, please say the word. Thank you so much. Heres the video - th-cam.com/video/HhR3j5NqO2U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0iuFIh-Jml5WMweD

Hey there, I just shot a follow up video to this one, about some unexpected things that I wish I would've known. It's a short one five minutes but well worth the time. I hope you don't mind, but I'm trying to just circulate it a little bit more, so I'm sending everybody who commented on this video the link to the new video. Anyways, have a great day thank you. th-cam.com/video/sjqE2qdTZUw/w-d-xo.html

I know, what a PITA. But all is done, now keeping the trail clean is somewhat of a chore. Early spring it needs attention. Mugwort and celandine (sp) love the wood chips. Anyway, thanks so much for watching!!! 🙏🙏🙏