The Front 12

[PatinPA]

My annual and I increasily think futile fight against invasives, in particular mile-a-minute. I usually spray about this time then go back when I spray for fall plots and try to get what was missed. Seems like a losing battle as there is more and more of it every year. I already gave up with stilt grass but it's mainly confined to my roads.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Wow - that's tough stuff, Pat. I guess m-a-m is an accurate name. I've read stilt grass is easier to control if you spray or mow it before it goes to seed - which keeps it spreading. We're battling it at camp too - mainly by spraying. It may take several years to get it hammered the way we want it though. Good luck with your place. How's that "Road Kill" crab doing?

 

[PatinPA]

Wow - that's tough stuff, Pat. I guess m-a-m is an accurate name. I've read stilt grass is easier to control if you spray or mow it before it goes to seed - which keeps it spreading. We're battling it at camp too - mainly by spraying. It may take several years to get it hammered the way we want it though. Good luck with your place. How's that "Road Kill" crab doing?

It's doing well other than leaning a bit. I keep forgetting to take my Big hammer to pound stakes in through the rocks. I have a wild crab apple I need to stake up as well. I had a regular small hammer that didn't even get it in an inch. haha. Might end up just tying that one to nearby trees.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

If the rocks in our Pa. mountains were money - we'd own the world! Our camp is lucky to have some OLD, long-established fields to plant things - but our property is sitting on a pile of rocks too. I hope your crabs keep growing for you. They'll make a nice, late-season draw, I suspect.