The Home Improvement Thread
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AlienXtx
Nignog
FIFY
tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
Wait...you planted a pine tree on purpose at your house? Those things drop sap and needles on everything. NOPE NOPE NOPEI lost one of the pine trees I planted a few years ago (I didn't water it) and possibly a small oak.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
dude, we have had 1” total rain in 3.5 months, if the tree starts to die, other insects and pathogens attack the weak.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
exactly!
Oswego
n00b
I have one scrub pine tree I didn't cut down 15 years ago when I bought my house. To this day it has never grown. Must be a dwarf. I have so many leaf & nut dropping trees I'd swap out a few for pines if I could. I like seeing some green in winter.
Make sure they are pine beetle tolerant. We are losing entire swaths of forest to those f*ckers. Spots I drive to now that used to be "deep" in the woods now look like clear cut parking lots. No idea what they are going to plant in their place, but everyone's got beetle kill wood for sale.
Killed off about 10 of the new spotted lantern bugs yesterday. Those things are also going to hurt the country. I see no way to contain them so I fear in the next few years you all will know exactly what I'm talking about.
Also RIP Ash trees. They will be gone in another 20-30 years....all of them.
Sorry, I was just researching the mushrooms on your tree and came across that article. Didn't mean anything else by it but I should've added something like "this is a good, quick read". My bad.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Sorry, I was just researching the mushrooms on your tree and came across that article. Didn't mean anything else by it but I should've added something like "this is a good, quick read". My bad.
it’s all good in Mr. Rogers neighborhood!!
Oswego
n00b
From someone who's been called a Piney for hanging out in the Pine Barrens all the time in my 20's-early 30's - you guys can have your oaks.
Cedar is my favorite. Nothing like a cold dark cedar forest with the trees moaning when they rub up against each other in the wind. Very creepy/cool.
AlienXtx
Nignog
The place across the road from me use to have about 2-3 acres of giant pines when I was younger. I use to jump the fence and go hang out over there all the time. When I was in high school they all died off from beetle or some other blight. Now I bet there is only 5-6 stunted one over there.
Oswego
n00b
I think being around them at a young age is also why I love them + we have one of the few Pygmy Pine forests in the world right by me. Pretty crazy looking out at a forest full of full growth trees you can see over the tops of.
Oswego
n00b
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Finished up late last night. Just powered through and finished so I wouldn't have to go back a third day. (sorry for the terrible pics, my Lifeproof cases camera cover is all scratched up. I have a warranty case in the mail).
And my niece & nephew came over and wore out my dog! He got some much needed exercise!
Thanks!