#buckthorn — Public Fediverse posts

Ask the Master Gardener: Goats part of an effective management plan for buckthorn – Brainerd Dispatch https://www.allforgardening.com/1920025/ask-the-master-gardener-goats-part-of-an-effective-management-plan-for-buckthorn-brainerd-dispatch/ #AfricanViolet #buckthorn #garden #GardenTipsForGrowingInMinnesota #gardener #gardening #GardeningInMinnesota #MasterGardener #UniversityOfMinnesota #UniversityOfMinnesotaExtension #WhatAreTheBestPlantsForMinnesota? #WhatCanIDoForPlantsInMinnesota? #WhatGrowsBestInMinnesota?

Send in the GOATs 🐐 to handle the invasion of buckthorn

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/goats-in-the-city-9.6972808
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Envoyez les chèvres 🐐 pour gérer l'invasion des nerpruns

// Article en anglais //

#Hamilton #Buckthorn #Nerprun #Goats #Chèvres

🍄 Fungi found on dying buckthorn could control the highly invasive species

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-fungi-dying-buckthorn-highly-invasive.html

#fungus #plants #buckthorn #ecology #invasive

In other news - when chipping #buckthorn branches, those things really fight back. My forearms are very well scratched up.

That weed of a tree grows branches at crazy angles and they're always grabbing at you, hoping to kill you for fertilizer.

interestingly though, I found the wood to be rather nice for carving - though you don't often have a piece big enough to do much with.

#chipCarving #greenwoodCarving

#Finland has a wonderful tradition of #berryWine that is all but forgotten by the mainstream. Indeed the state monopoly, #Alko, has an extensive selection of regular #wine, but almost no #Finnish berry wines.

I actually preferred this red, by #Pihamaa, to most red wines (but that’s because the heavy tannins give me a headache), and it worked well with our #Easter meal. You can also get heavier berry wines.

On the left you can see a #sparklingWine, also by Pihamaa, made from #buckthorn.

A little project this morning, taking shape for an Xmas gift. Feed me!

I was fascinated to learn the weedy, problem tree/shrub, #buckthorn is a hardwood. It grows so fast and is so ornery, I won't have any hesitation to cut it back for #carving projects in future.

#birds #WIP #chipCarving

Bumble Bee (Bombus sp.) on Alder Buckthorn (Frangula alnus)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bumble_Bee_(Bombus_sp.)_on_Alder_Buckthorn_(Frangula_alnus)_-_Oslo,_Norway_2020-08-27.jpg

#BumbleBee #Buckthorn #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #BumbleBees #Bee #Bees #Bombus #Plant #Plants #Hymenoptera #Insect #Insects #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Some thoughts on potential poisonous wild plants ... on "Bimbling" and on "Funga"

#WildParsnip #Elderberry #Buckthorn #PoisonIvy #PoisonousPlants #Bimbling #Funga

https://1001species.substack.com/p/nature-is-not-out-to-kill-you

Any forest experts on here? I'm trying to turn my backyard forest into a healthy oak-hickory food forest and while I know what I need to get rid of (buckthorn, honeysuckle, creeping bellflower) I don't really know what the understory is *supposed* to look like.

Where should the shrubs/small trees be in relation to the big ones? What should go at the edges vs in the middle? Most of the info I've found by googling is geared toward managing a forest for logging which is obvs not helpful.

Thanks in advance!

#oak #hickory #forest #FoodForest #invasiveSpecies #understory #buckthorn
(adding a bunch of hashtags since I'm pretty sure that's how stuff gets seen on here?)