Junorch obs and discussion 2026

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

Good luck but you won't win.

I needed to hit it last year when it first germinated…may alert the town. They make a halfhearted effort every summer to nuke it only for it to grow right back before fall. 

[ineedsnow]

well this is pretty interesting.. hopefully we can actually get a skillful model

https://windbornesystems.com/blog/wm-6-case-study

[powderfreak]

39 minutes ago, dendrite said:

It’s pretty bad here too. There’s a big patch of it down the road along a stream that feeds into the Winni River. Last year a patch sprouted up roadside halfway up my hill and I’m tempted to roundup that shit myself before it starts spreading. 

 

39 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Invasives, scourge of the earth. Especially around wetlands.

We used to have people cutting it and ripping it out of the ground each summer along the river but it was a losing battle.  Now it’s just taken over all across the banks for like 5 miles.

[dendrite]

24 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

 

We used to have people cutting it and ripping it out of the ground each summer along the river but it was a losing battle.  Now it’s just taken over all across the banks for like 5 miles.

The new thing is to lay 1/2” hardware cloth over the area and let it grow through it. It keeps girdling itself as it grows. Not sure that would eradicate it with time though as it doesn’t need much photosynthesis to refuel the rhizomes. 

[NoCORH4L]

It doesn't like shade, which is good. The 2 neighbors have it but we have about 100' of kinda swampish woods that keeps it away I think....for now. 

[kdxken]

That's going to leave a mark. 

 

[kdxken]

12 minutes ago, dendrite said:

The new thing is to lay 1/2” hardware cloth over the area and let it grow through it. It keeps girdling itself as it grows. Not sure that would eradicate it with time though as it doesn’t need much photosynthesis to refuel the rhizomes. 

Invasives are a zero sum game. Blackberries take over a native meadow, multiflora rose takes over blackberry, porcelain berry takes over the multiflora rose. I do get a bit of satisfaction seeing anything take over multiflora rose. But In the end you lose.

[powderfreak]

38 minutes ago, kdxken said:

That's going to leave a mark. 

 

Ha, I get 2 minutes of peas yesterday and I’m super excited.

Denver is like, hold my beer.

 Clearing 8-10” of hail.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZD5k9YCv2F/?igsh=bTRxaW93OHF1d3Jp

[tunafish]

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Dude it’s out of control along the river banks here.

 

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

It’s pretty bad here too. There’s a big patch of it down the road along a stream that feeds into the Winni River. Last year a patch sprouted up roadside halfway up my hill and I’m tempted to roundup that shit myself before it starts spreading. 

The biggest problem I see, around here at least, is how well-intentioned homeowners unintentionally spread it. They cut it, bag it, and bring it to municipal compost sites, where viable fragments can get redistributed. Even mowing, cutting, or moving plant material can spread it if stem or rhizome fragments survive and easily reestablish.

[powderfreak]

9 minutes ago, tunafish said:

 

The biggest problem I see, around here at least, is how well-intentioned homeowners unintentionally spread it. They cut it, bag it, and bring it to municipal compost sites, where viable fragments can get redistributed. Even mowing, cutting, or moving plant material can spread it if stem or rhizome fragments survive and easily reestablish.

I always wondered if the large scale effort to eradicate it here led to it spreading even faster.  It probably did.

There used to be a group of landowners with like machetes walking along the river through Stowe hacking the stuff down and collecting it.  Probably just led to it being washed downstream even faster or moved somewhere else.

[WxWatcher007]

 

3 hours ago, powderfreak said:

 

We used to have people cutting it and ripping it out of the ground each summer along the river but it was a losing battle.  Now it’s just taken over all across the banks for like 5 miles.

I take great pride in not using pesticides on my property but two years ago I nuked the Knotwood along my property line and after a dormant year it has just exploded in that same zone. I hacked at it and left the remnants in the sun to bake, but it's concerning. I have several invasive species on the edge of the property, but that is by far the worst.  

2 hours ago, tunafish said:

 

The biggest problem I see, around here at least, is how well-intentioned homeowners unintentionally spread it. They cut it, bag it, and bring it to municipal compost sites, where viable fragments can get redistributed. Even mowing, cutting, or moving plant material can spread it if stem or rhizome fragments survive and easily reestablish.

See above. Sometimes I feel like not using the chemicals just allows the invasive stuff expand but I have good biodiversity (I think) on my patch of land than neighbors. I'm very excited to see how the firefly population looks this year imby.