Paddock Woods Saturday May 23
We had a smallish, decent group of volunteers for this garlic mustard (GM) hunt, and after one false start your roving reporter arrived to find the volunteers deeper into the woodland than we normally get. Does this mean we're pushing the GM population farther back? I certainly hope so.
At any rate, we were able to find more than enough of the little invader to keep us busy and allow fairly frequent trips to the compost pile. Most of the flowers are gone by now making them a little harder to spot, and most of the flowers are gone from the lookalikes as well. Bottom line; ample targets still present, hoping they hadn't dropped too much seed before we got there.
Sunday at Swallow Cliff
was supposed to be more of the same but the weather deities had other thoughts, rolling a rain front through our area at around 7:00 am which didn't move out until after 10:00. Yes, we could have outlasted it, but that might have been Mr. Jan and one other volunteer, and then I wouldn't have had the time needed to drive out to Sunrise Greenhouse in Grant Park, buy a few more herbs and veggies, and then spend the rest of the day planting edibles in the yard.
Thank you Jim D for the tip on this very large greenhouse. You also gave us the chance to drive a stretch of corn country, which moves farther away each year with exurban sprawl. And I got to hang with my homey which is the best!
We had a smallish, decent group of volunteers for this garlic mustard (GM) hunt, and after one false start your roving reporter arrived to find the volunteers deeper into the woodland than we normally get. Does this mean we're pushing the GM population farther back? I certainly hope so.
At any rate, we were able to find more than enough of the little invader to keep us busy and allow fairly frequent trips to the compost pile. Most of the flowers are gone by now making them a little harder to spot, and most of the flowers are gone from the lookalikes as well. Bottom line; ample targets still present, hoping they hadn't dropped too much seed before we got there.
Sunday at Swallow Cliff
was supposed to be more of the same but the weather deities had other thoughts, rolling a rain front through our area at around 7:00 am which didn't move out until after 10:00. Yes, we could have outlasted it, but that might have been Mr. Jan and one other volunteer, and then I wouldn't have had the time needed to drive out to Sunrise Greenhouse in Grant Park, buy a few more herbs and veggies, and then spend the rest of the day planting edibles in the yard.
Thank you Jim D for the tip on this very large greenhouse. You also gave us the chance to drive a stretch of corn country, which moves farther away each year with exurban sprawl. And I got to hang with my homey which is the best!
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