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]

12 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.