Permaculture interventions
The push is foward and expansion
The push is a move of both body motion forward and body expansion through the arms and hands furthre forward. The hard part is coordinating the movement and the expansion so both stop at the same time. The other hard part is making sure the previous move puts you in the proper position. Here I had not put my body into the 70% back weight that I should have to get the most expansion out of the push. My ear should have been above my rear foot, the light blue column, instead of the actual start position, the yellow column.
Doesn't quite work... HDR merge in PS of 10 images, each of which has bar I put on Overlap and generally too messy, though detail good on the back and waist hip areas
20150307 Doing the baby pine protection
Once again I was a bit too late for some of them. The pines I planted last year have been decimated by deer nibbling. so I went around today with a spray bottle in which I poured the rest of the commercial repellent I'd bought. It ran out about half way through Of the pines planted last year, in the area east of the upper pond and west and north of the house, most of the ones put out in the north field are doing ok. This is a mix of white pines and norway spruces. Over in the kitchen garden area, I'd put a half dozen in pots, planning to put them out later when they had a bit more growth. However, something has pretty much nibbled all their needles. The other pines in this general area I had put in at several different times, losing many to deer nibbling or rubbing. The few that survived that are doing well. In the east yard I'd only put in one new one in 2014 and it doesn't look all that happy. The older ones are doing fine. Along the berm, I need to recount, but it looks like only one pine and one spruce out of nearly a dozen has made it so far. The one in the southeast wood is hanging in there. The dozen or so I put around the south edge of the east forest edge maybe one will survive.
Originally there was a few rocks set up as the spill way, but they were eroded by heavy rains and the gully widened considerably as the pond washes out through here. Pond fix up has to start here.
The upper pond tucks itself in for winter by recieving a blanket of leaf and bald cypress needles. The nice green bushes are actually a nasty invading bush, a honeysuckle from North East Asia that shades out most native species, elminating them underneath their spread.
Thoughts about this guy.
The path between the east field and the berm of the east border field is the low spot here. This part of the path might benefit from making a pond of sort.
Along the walk treating the pines, I noticed the wet spots. The whole place is wet, almost all the snow has melted, but the ground is still frozen below an inch or so. The top inch is mud anywhere not completely covered with plant material. These areas have standing water for quite a while after a heavy rain, or remain soaked long after the rest is dry enough not to squish when walked on. Sometimes just a day or two, but sometimes for as long as a week after the rain.
Still a lot of work to do and still some decisions to make about what to do where.
By the time I got back out on the deck with camera, rain had fallen off and only a trickle flowing where before it had been shooting out a few inches in a solid brown sheet. Also noticed that water collected in a puddle near the door. Not good, and can see the gravel is too high there.
Fall colors at the upper pond.
The multiflora rose is gone and lots of branches have been moved to a large pile right under where the rose is mentioned. This pile has resulted in a bit of a pond or wetspot forming under it and almost a little creek going into the pond. So this is now also a drainage challenge.
The path from the north field needs to be shifted up away from the current eroding path and a logpile berm put aross the part that gets really soggy, up hill from it.
row of pines (planted apx 2002)
at least two species. 1 of one kind and five of another kind. Both have two needle bunches.
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Some areas still not named
Cleared out a whole bunch of bush honeysuckle, but still a lot more behind. Now need to cut up the bush honeysuckle stems and do something with them. And put some native trees and bushes in there. Forest edge that faces north...
Put in 4 wild plum here. The callery pear appears to have survived the girdling I attempted. Though perhaps it will have eliminated fruiting. It did bloom, but not a vigorously as in previous years. The two dark spots in the foreground are two of the very few exposed rocks on the property. To the right is mostly junipers, the right is more of a mix of mostly persimmons with a few others also.
Two loblolly pines close to south boundary line of "the elbow" that borders the east neighbour.
Put in 7 silky dogwood which apparently like getting their feet wet in between drying out now and then. This was mud planting. No loose earth to fill in around roots, just squash mud into them. This shallow gully drains the fields up to the oak groves and now tends to hold water in some places most of the time. Probably due to the luxurious growths of bush honeysuckle, russian olive, poison ivy and the like.
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2015-2017 smaller Pano op43 central driveway
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This was my initial pick for the poem.
