Pellet heads!! What's up today?

It's a nice town. It gets pretty busy on holiday weekends in summer, as it's the last 'major town' off the interstate in the lower peninsula when going north (major meaning Wal Mart, Meijer, Lowes, Home Depot, and nearly every fast food chain known to man). I pass through there about twice a month on average in the summer months.

It's smack in the middle of the northern lower Michigan lake effect snow belt. Cold and lots of snow. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Michigan was in Vanderbilt, about 10 miles north of Gaylord. That -51 stuff can stay up there.

 

Medical facilities as well, he is a doctor of internal medicine and she is a shrink.

 

None on my land, but everywhere you go there is standing water, streets not able to drain fast enough. my other son's basement was flooding. They lost their power so the sump didn't work. They got the generator going and got the water out before any damage.
I'm on the side of a hill. I have drains under the foundation and around the sides. So far, the have kept the water out. If any ever did get in, I could just open the door and it would flow right out. One end of the house is higher than the ground. level. Thanks for asking. Stay tuned, we have a hurricane headed up the coast. That should really cause flooding. Ground will be saturated from this latest rain, so no place for the water to go.

 

Until Tuesday we had the 18th driest month of September ever recorded. After that, we went to having something like the 20th wettest September on record. Some places in the state got over 7" of rain. My place got probably around 4.5". I don't have to go out and water the shrubs I planted 3 weeks ago for a day or two anyway.

 

Yeah, I know all about how fast that chit grows (almost as bad as the Japanese Knotweed that I am working on smothering). Last year's ice/snow storm during Thanksgiving had a forsythia's branches halfway into my driveway - I cut most of it down and had it trying to take over the world again by June, so cut it down to a manageable 3-4 ft. I now have branches taller than my roof so I'll have to cut it way back before winter snows hit again. And, that isn't the one I'm trying to kill

Just how do you kill forsythia? I have one next to a tree that I literally had to take a chainsaw to (the shrub, not the tree). I took it all the way to the ground, but of course it is coming back. Would prefer not to use poisons, especially since it is near the tree, which I would like to keep, but don't want to take years to smother it. Hey, and while I'm at it, any tips for getting rid of poison ivy?

Why yes, this place is a mess - but I'll get it under control at some point. Keeps me busy and off the streets at night

 

Dig them out.

 

We got somewhere close to 7" out of the mess yesterday, our brook and pond have plenty of water in them now.

BTW Larry, the models are now running the hurricane about 300 miles further east than they were yesterday. It is really too early to tell for hereabouts.

 

Guy down the road said he got 10.4 inches in his official weather watcher rain station ............ but he lies a lot, too, and he has been known to take a drink ...................

 

How's it going hoss? Have you adjusted to retirement?

 

Like Smokey said dig it out . poison ivy have to use an herbicide like Round up , Weed be gone, and it will most likely take more the one app to get rid of it all.

 

re: forsythia, had one at the corner of the house, couldn't kill it, we ended up digging around the perimeter of the bush, used bypass lopers and a hacksaw to cut the root system, and a big ole' prybar to unroot the main stem, cut 3-4" below the soil line, and put weed blocker over the area, and let it sit for a full season.

re: Poison Ivy, poison oak - we use the Salt and Dish Detergent method, along with 'cover and smother' here: link: How to Get Rid of Poison Ivy : HGTV Gardens

* empty Pellet bags work -excellent- for this.

 

That is basically what roundup is potassium in an emulsion . Salt and dish detergent is a great idea a whole lot cheaper too

 

I worded my post badly - the forsythia is not just next to the tree, but intertwined amongst the roots. I am not digging out between, thru and under the roots of a 40' tree. I know because I'm trying to dig out a stump of another large tree and just getting sod out of the roots was very labor and time consuming and then I used a chainsaw to cut the large roots off the stump (yeah, laugh, you guys with access to power equipment - I've already popped 4 stumps out of this yard, all by hand and a pry bar - got the chainsaw specifically for this stump). One day I may get down to the lower roots and actually get the thing out of there. Heck, I'm still trenching to get the large roots out, so the stump itself is a "feature" so far.

 

Hey, I might have one or two of those bags lying around

 

I can see that digging is NOT an option , try this cut the forsythia down to a stump then paint roundup or something like it on to the open wounds it will not trans locate to the other tree and in the spring or when new suckers start sprouting from the stump paint them too .

 

You beat me too it