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Eldon (WA) 
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 Topic: Keeping the Orange looking good...
Posted: 09 Jun 2010 at 11:13pm |
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A couple of days ago I moved a ton of my AC implements from their resting areas for the last few years.....some hadn't been moved since we moved here in '04 and the area was never really prepped for storage...they just kinda built up over the years to the point where it is taking 4 hours of weed wacking a year to keep the weeds down. Well now I have the area nice and flat and tilled up...just looking for suggestions to make it easier (and faster) to keep the area clean. I thought of gravel, but that gets weeds in it too. Soil sterilant is expensive, and hasn't worked very well for me in the past. Any ideas?
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Eric[IL]
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Posted: 09 Jun 2010 at 11:38pm |
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goats / sheep??
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JeffHillNC
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 12:20am |
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Eldon, I've got 7 pigmy goats, 1 boar goat and 2 angus heifers on 3 acres where my lawn mower salvage yard is and it stays looking like the church lawn, they will even lay their heads on the ground sideways to get under the from axles on the mowers. They also are addicted to day old bread from the local bread store, I should not have got them started on that.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 7:15am |
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The best looking tractor bone yard I ever saw had sheep running loose in it. I tried to talk the trustees of the local cemetery into using em. If you had the pigmy goats you would have another attraction for the kids on Pumkin Day.
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Murph-NC
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 7:29am |
I don't know if it's feasible for you, but I like gravel with a layer of plastic underneath.
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Stan IL&TN
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 7:37am |
It requires 5 gallons of Diesel and a pump sprayer but it's not very friendly to the earth.
Heavy black plastic sheeting using landscape spikes to keep it in place may work but it would hold water and that's not good for the equipment.
You could use Roundup or it's generic and spray the area but it would have to be sprayed about 3 times a year to keep it bare.
No real good solution unless you concrete the area but that's $$$.
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Lonn
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 7:46am |
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Salvage yards around here used to run sheep or goats in the yard.
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Matt MN
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 8:01am |
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Kind of spendy also but you can lay down fabric and then spread out the gravel over the top to prevent weeds. I just use round up to kill the weeds.
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Kurzy
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 8:03am |
Howdy Eldon,
Around here they rise a lot of ginseng. Well the market went bad for a while. They used a heavy black plastic type of cloth to cover their crop. I picked up a few of those tarps and put it on the ground. I doubled it up so its nice and heavy under there. Tarps are tough as nails. Water can get thru and keeps the dust down too. Got them inside the barn with dirt floor and also keeps moisture down too. Its got tiny holes in so it lets it breath a little. Been real happy with the tarps.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 8:12am |
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I have seen "rock" gardens with plastic or fabric underneath and after 5 years or so there is enough debris built up on top of the fabric to support life of any seeds that happen along. Now you have a pile of gravel with fabric underneath and weeds and grass on top.
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Alberta Phil
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 10:00am |
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Eldon, seems like the critters would be the best solution!
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Creek Jenkins
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 10:35am |
Alternative to roundup is vinegar. I use it to kill the grass and weeds in my driveway. Works just as well and is cheep. We have guineas running all over the yard so I don't like to use chemicals.
cheers,
Creek
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Osage_Orange
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 10:55am |
To what proportions do you dilute the vinegar? I have about 800 ft of gravel driveway plus a 100 X 100 ft turnaround area. Been using the generic "glysophate" at $17 per gallon (concentrated), but always open to something less expensive. Yeah, I'm cheap, but also poor!
Edited by Osage_Orange - 10 Jun 2010 at 10:56am
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Why is there never time to do it right the first time, but always time to go back and fix it?
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Creek Jenkins
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 1:04pm |
Osage -
I use the white vinegar straight up. Works like a charm, especially if it hasn't rained for awhile and the plants are a bit thirsty. It's cheep, so I splash it around like a drunken sailor. Works on the patio as well, keeps the grass from coming up between the block and under the deck.
cheers,
Vinegar Creek
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WilliamNEOH
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 1:43pm |
Put up 3 strands of electric fence and throw some goats in there. Sell the goats in the fall when prices are up. Only drawback, they jump on stuff, it would best for machinery without sheetmetal.
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Bob-Maine
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010 at 2:03pm |
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Eldon, easy solution. Just load it all on a flatbed and ship to me in Maine. Then you can mow to your hearts content LOL Bob@allisdowneast
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