I just realized that a very pretty early blooming plant is wild garlic mustard and is extremely invasive. This video shows and identification of the plant as well as control/eradication methods.
Luckily, I have yet to find any wild garlic mustard on our property. We have lots of wild garlic, but it looks different from the plant you're weeding out. I grew up thinking everything, but pretty flowers and grass were weeds. In recent years, I've learned so much about what grows naturally around us. There are so many uses for all those "weeds"! I agree 100% with what you said about what's the point of ownership without stewardship. It's our responsibility to maintain and protect nature for future generations. It's being destroyed at an alarming rate for expansion and growth. The land next to us and up the road was cleared with storage units and a manufacturing facility being built. I was approached by the developers about selling our land, which I quickly ended that conversation. I hope all my efforts to protect and preserve our little piece of this earth will result in my family enjoying it for generations to come!
Thank you for watching. I could not agree more. We have put our property in a conservation easement. We are surrounded by farmland that has been placed in conservation easements (6,000 acres) and we back up too Little North Mountain Wildlife Management Area (33,000 acres). I'm proud to say that my wife and I are founding board members of the Shenandoah Valley Conservation Council. Virginia is a leader in promoting land conservation and even has a department of conservation whose sole purpose is to buy land and place it in conservation easements and then sell it as permanently protected. Our Virginia Department of Forestry is active in holding land conservation easements. Our is with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation.
That's great! I'm surrounded by farmland which some has been rezoned as commercial. We'll do what we can to protect our 6 acres. As always looking forward to your next video!
Berea, Ky. I've never seen any of the wild garlic mustard, nor the wing stem. I thought it looked like Joe-Pye weed when you pointed it out. I do have Joe-Pye and Ironweed on my property in places where I don't mow. My wife wants me to keep our field mowed short, but I would like to leave strips of it that grows for the summer months and then mow it in the fall. I did that last year but she fussed about it too much. I've also noticed that fireflies are prolific in non-mowed and brushy areas but are sparse in the mowed areas.
I hope you never see wild garlic mustard, stilt grass, or autumn olive on your property. What is beautiful to the human eye is usually not beautiful to the natural world. Golf courses and urban lawns are good examples. Your observations are correct. Perhaps instead of mowing strips you could mow winding paths as these are more interesting, increase the amount you can leave natural, and make for very nice walks to observe the seasonal changes. Perhaps she will like that better.
@@kensshowtell The most invasive plant here is bush honeysuckle. It's all up and down the interstate along the fence rows. I have it here, but only in places that are not reachable with my tractor. I made a bow out of a piece of it about 3 years ago, the strongest bow I've ever made. It's some tough wood when it is seasoned, but it only gets about an inch and a half thick.
@@ralpharvin2668 That's amazing about you making a bow out of bush honeysuckle. That is a plant we don't have a problem with at this point in time. I see you have a You Tube channel. You should start making and editing videos about your place and what you do on and with it. It takes time and planning, however, if you enjoy creating and sharing (I think you do) you will double your fun.
@@kensshowtell I believe I have some of that bush honeysuckle on one part of the Euonymus shrubs that surround my back yard. I attempted to dig it up a few years ago, but apparently, I didn't succeed. VERY difficult. I actually liked it for it's fragrance, but I didn't want it killing the Euonymus. Fighting a losing battle.
