Gardening, landscaping and plants in general

[motojobobo]

Mango season round here! Hyper sunny days over this week produces these colorful guys.

[endo]

Does anyone know a good method for getting rid of moles? The pesky things are making my life miserable. Every time I come to the cottage, there are at least 40 new molehills. They won't take mouse bait, and I've tried commercial anti-mole scent repellents, but that was a joke. For a while it worked well with Wrigley's Juicy Fruit, but I think they got used to the truly disgusting smell. I'm quite desperate. Looking for a final solution, no mercy.

[SKT]

I’ve used a product called Talpirid. They look like gummy bear worms and you put them in the mole tunnels. Very effective but not sure available there. Worth checking though as it’s been the most effective thing I’ve found. It’s a battle!!

[endo]

Unfortunately, everything that kills them is not allowed over here and therefore not available.

[tody]

[endo]

I wish I could do that @tody

[northsouthdenimguy]

After a quick beach trip this past weekend (about a 6½-hour drive each way), we came home to a small tree down in the driveway. Thankfully it didn’t hit the house, it was actually closer than these photos show but I pulled it out of the way so my wife could get her car into the garage.

It took about 10 minutes to cut it up and toss everything into the natural area, either for pickup or to let it rot, I’m not entirely sure which yet.

The point of this post is that it’s probably time to really walk the property and identify the rotted trees and some of the ones that are basically just weeds. I know thinning/cutting down trees isn’t a popular opinion these days, but it’s genuinely better for the health of the surrounding trees and the property as a whole to clean things out before they become a bigger problem.

Edit: oh damn my main point was “fun” to drive hours and then come home and have to cut up a tree, but at least no damage

[GraemeE]

said in Gardening, landscaping and plants in general:

@GraemeE said in Gardening, landscaping and plants in general:

@GraemeE said in Gardening, landscaping and plants in general:

Operation "train the grape vines over the pergola" is a go

Hoping for some summer shade

Progress

Successful in gaining shade but it's still hot as fuck this week (at least by Oregon standards)

Things may have gotten slightly out of hand....

Vines latched onto the cottonwood trees in the background a grew around 3/4 of the way to the top

[corralitos]

Some hastily taken pictures of my native (to the California coast) tree orchard. Redwoods, Douglas Fir, and Madrones. Planted them three years ago and they've really been thriving. Just switched my irrigation from bubbler to drip and looking forward to helping that root network grow. Bonus picture of my latest addition - a young giant sequoia. They aren't native to the coast but will do just fine.

[GraemeE]

Got 3 plants out of pots and into the ground outside my office this weekend

(From back to front)
Blue spruce

Hybrid black white japanese pine that i wired for a few years to give some character

Tiny juniper

The goal is to keep these fairly small and pruned with the pine likely getting a root prune and going back into shallow bonsai tray after fattening up for at least a couple more years in the ground