Hang up smaller brown paper bags where you don't want wasps. They don't like neighbors and think it's other wasps that have moved in and taken over the area, so they move and look for a new, more lonely place. Works in Sweden! Lovely video as always!
Nice ideia! I will try it, but I think it’s one of those garden myths! I am also using empty eggshells with that same idea for the cabbage white butterfly! Will see!
An exterminator taught me that when trying to get rid of wasp nests, never stand with the sun behind you. The wasps always fly straight out of their nests toward the sun. So angle your body so you are not in that path.He rarely got stung and didn’t wear a bunch of protective gear, but after decades of doing that job, he was almost immune to their stings.
Apparently a solution of vinegar and salt poured into stump drilled with a few holes. Rots stump. Slow but effective. Might take a couple of applications.
Our mimosas r pink. There is PREEN. It's granular. Can be environmentally hazard. There is also "industrial" strength vinegar. Either way, it will take a LOT. If vinegar is used, DO NOT apply in the heat of the day. It will aphexiate u, trust me. Contact your local agricultural center. They might have a solution.
Vinegar doesn't work on stumps for me & takes a ton to kill a weed down to roots. Usually only burbs the leaves off but grows right back. Salt can make an area so only salt- tolerant plants will grow in the future. Be careful where you use it.
You can also use a very sharp knife to remove the bark of the mimosa 20 to 30 cm from the top to the base of the tree and the mimosa will slowly begin to dry. For mimosas with a wider trunk, make holes in the trunk with a drill and apply chemicals.
Out by the roots! I believe the only permanent solution - a small digger would be easiest (See over on 'Project Kamp' they have done this). It is a highly successful pioneer species that loves open position and uncovered soil. Once out, immediate super-thick mulch (anything from the garden, chopped up, will do). Then get large natives like oak in, that will deter the mimosa in the long run. Remove new seedings on sight. If this seems too radical, then you could try the drilling holes/vinegar method, plus constant cutting back of new growth on the stumps, plus mulch and/or totally excluding the light with a tarp. It might eventually give up after a few years. But you have to stay on top of new growth all the time. For me this is a tougher route. All the best! - we LOVE your channel - would be happy to help but we have a woodland (in Wales!) to keep on top of!
I find that thick mulch (I use about 3 inches thick) really works with reseeding. The suckers from neighboring trees will still need to be pruned, mainly in the spring. The weed block fabric doesn't work on seeds that land on top (only seeds already in the soil) but few seeds can root through thick mulch. The soil is too far away for the roots to reach.
A mulching mower that is set high. Run it over the Acacia every fortnight or so. The mulch can be used as compost or allow to decompose 9on the ground. Eventually the main plant will give up.
Goats are lovable but hard work, they prefer to eat fruit trees and vegetable gardens and are expert at escaping. They also need continual care, clean water, hoof care, shelter, good hay etc so think veryhard before considering having any. Thank you for the lovely videos
It's scary to see how inflammable mimosa trees are. 😳 The best option to remove roots is a small or medium size digger. 👍 Happy to see Darwin back on track. Salad looked delicious! Thank you for bird, plant, flower information. Black kitty still loves supervising olive trees. Frankie looks so handsome in his new 'fur cut.' 🥰 Love watching your videos! ❤🌟
Can u move the chicken fence over ? That will help… make it taller at the rock wall and voila! A rolled up bandana around the head is good for sweat Iwan! ♥️👩🌾♥️
Those sheets are Big 6 profile. Modern cement based. To take the nails out without damaging the sheet use bolt cutters. Grip the head without cutting through and twist until you can get a wrecking bar underneath.
The way Iwan is approaching the problem of removing the mimosa, cutting them at ground level, will only make them spread in the small shoots coming up all over. This is because these trees spread underground along the root system. One has to remove the living root system. There are stump pullers one can purchase that operate on a lever system. I used to use a winch to pull roots, attached to a tree or vehicle. The problem with this is that the winch pulled horizontal to the ground. Your tripod method would help to pull straight up, which is an advantage. One still needs to dig around the root system enough to get the chain or wire wrapped around the root system sufficiently to get a good pull. One does have to remove them at the roots, but that will not solve the problem of the root system from the mimosa on the neighbor's land.
Lots of good advice here already re the Mimosa - I've also heard of putting boiling hot water on the roots as soon as you have cut the trunk, then covering with a tarp or cardboard to prevent regrowth. (Be careful of using salt on the trees - it does work, but the salt can dissolve in water and run off into your vegetable beds, making the beds unproductive. You might want to think about which way the water drains before applying the salt.)
Hi there FOGGIES, an option next to the chooks are to clean the ground, salt it, landscape fabric on top with gravel. The crunchie gravel will definitely scare the foxes away and this way you reduce poison risk to your animals
We use normal coarse sea salt. I had to do this in my previous garden (we had an investation of pride of India - a listed illegal plant in my country). We just used the salt, black landscape fabric and gravel. End of shoots growing. They can't grow through and eventually die down.
Except salt contaminated the soil... sadly... The only permanent way is to dig them out... Hopefully it's done and dusted... check for seeds germinating and starting over It may take years to eradicate it...
Eco plugs will sort any stump out and are a lot greener than roundup. If you want a 100% natural solution, you drill a few holes in the stumps, fill with salt and then plug the top with soil. Water it and replace the salt every week and it will drain the tree of all its nutrients until it dies. Love the channel!
Vinegar salt and dish soap: the weed kill recipe calls for mixing together: 1 cup of salt 1 tablespoon of dish soap 1 gallon of vinegar From Martha Stewart I know it works on weeds, but I don't know about those trees. You may have to treat them several times but it's definitely not poisonous, that's for sure.
I love all the flora and bird names, so different from here. Iwan may consider reaching out to a supplier of battery-operated secateurs for grape and olive pruning.
I like how the cats and dogs come and check out what you are. doing. Your gardens are starting to look great. Iwan rest and get better. Loved the close up shots of the pets and the flowers.
Frankie is looking good, she's still a full form, but her belly definitely looks slimmer. She also seems more agile, trying to keep up with Diogo. Love how much time your animals spend with your while you go about your chores, it's really special.❤
Just a thought when you are pruning. Do you have a largish tarp you could drop the cuttings onto? This way, most seeds won't be able to drop off and re-establish, and you can drag it to where it's going to be disposed of. See a lot of mowing businesses do this to save double handling. Love your channel and journey ✨️💚🙏👣✨️
Instead of Roundup I use white vinegar with salt and washing up liquid in it. I cleared a very overgrown back garden (which scared away the person I was going to pay to clear it for me). I cut everything right down to ground level before spraying it all a couple of times with the solution. I then covered the whole area with cardboard to stifle any new growth of very high growing brambles and Himalayan Honeysuckle which looked like Japanese knotweed. I found that an old fashioned long handled scythe worked better than a strimmer, use as if raking everything towards you rather than swinging it. Perhaps you could find a less inflammable option to the cardboard, but it worked brilliantly, even though it took a couple of years to do it this way rather than use harsh weed-killer.
It might be worth trying a sheet of black plastic held down on the edges and left for a while to cook the shoots and subdue the growth. To make it easier to extract the nails, engage the claw of the hammer and slip a piece of 20mm wood under the claw to produce more leverage
I laughed at the chickens' reaction, when you throw the mimosa shoots on a heap!! Highly upset, because you chuck the greenery away😂. As if to say:" Human are you mad? That is food!!"
Take out the stump with a kind of claw with a tractor if you can. You have to do it with hemlock tree. But it will come back as long as you keep the old tree there. But the good thing is hemlock tree brings a lot of ants. The chickens should fest with them :-)
If you keep on cutting the new growth in the tree stump it will eventually give up and die. You need to be patient. I learned this from Jeff Lawton. I tried this method on a large Jukka tree which is very tenacious and it worked.
I use cardboard thick layers covered with tarpolin to keep light out. After 12 months or so, they should naturally die out with no light. I use this method to get rid of pernicious weeds on my allotment when I started it 4 yrs ago. Now im almost weed free, but it did take 14 months. And lots of bricks to hold it all down. Hope all goes well Regards Kim xx
You local council or fire brigade should inforce the 50 mtr barrier to protect your property. Grinding out the stumps to below ground level, then cap them with cement. 😊 As for wasps and asbestos get serious 😮
Oh my, a lovely video.. I’m glad Frankie is doing well with her weight.. we rounder figured folk need encouragement sometimes ❤️ Iwan.. behave. Do what you are told. 🤣 Carissa, I have never seen such a beautiful salad array. Diogo, you are just so handsome 😉
The chickens will take care of the seeds and new seedlings...you just need to give them access to the area.as you can see the chicken area is devoid of ant vegetation.
I had a similar issue with a tree called, 'Buckthorn.' It wasn't invasive until I cut down the mother plant and she sent runners everywhere as a survival response. Same would happen if I cut the suckers or runners. I am terrified of Round-Up but had no choice. So instead of spraying, I took sandwich bags with ties, poured the liquid into the bag, and then I put a limb and leaves and twist tied the bag closed. It kept the liquid from going anywhere or getting airborne and went directly to the root thus ending my buckthorn problem. I just controlled the application.
Further, with A. dealbata, cover the salted trunk with heavy soil or compost, to keep it moist, or with black plastic. To control the constant reinfection from your neighbour, it will be a seasonal routine to walk along that fence with a weeding prong implement and remove the young seedlings. Trimming them of, or slashing/strumming the green-trunked ones will only prune them. The roots will re-energise and resort with even thicker growth in late winter, early spring. 😢
On the acacias, exhaust the roots by routinely cutting off all sprouts and digging down or uprooting everything you can. Eventually the roots will be severely weakened and die. I'm doing the same and it's working a few years in...
Olá, for grown up trees one needs to cut a ring and peel the bark down until the root. There are best seasons for it… to fight the seeds deposit I believe you have the best soldiers the chickens!
Great content...I thought the chicken coop protest was hilarious. In regard to your Mimosas IMHO you'll never get rid if your neighbours aren't doing the same. I think you're already ahead of me...take a leaf from the Alan York school...think of them as an assett...harvest, strip and burn the rubbish and use the straight lengths in your garden walls/dividers. ✌️
Drill lots of holes in stump, fill with salt, vinegar, Epsom salts whatever you can get your hands on that is naturally acidic. Fill holes & cover with something waterproof. Reapply often. Chop & lift as many roots then blackout the ground with whatever you’ve got. Be persistent & it will pay off. Surly there are ‘volunteers’ who are keen to give a hand. Your videos are so beautiful and you come across as such lovely genuine people there must be folk out there wanting to help out
1 cup of vinegar to 1 gallon of HOT water and a half cup of salt. Dig around to roots a bit and pour it around the roots. It you add a wee bit of dish soap it will kill weeds if you spray it on the weeds...
that is as environmental unfriendly as Roundup used on the spot. I would have no qualms using roundup for individual plants/painted on, the broad spraying of it is the problem
I get invasive trees in my yard, but my land is much smaller than yours. I cut them down with strimmers & and pruners, then come back about once a week or 2 to see if anything has resprouted. If you see any green sprouting, break them off. Do this weekly or biweekly & the roots & stump uses up all its energy stored in roots since it can't do photosynthesis. It dies. If you only clear an area at a time, an area small enough to keep an eye on like by the chicken coop, the trees are dead within a month or so. It works on brambles & ivy too. I have to create appointments in my calendar planner to remember to walk the area to look for sprouts, but it only takes a few minutes to do. If you come back to find leaves open, then you need to come back sooner next time to avoid photosynthesis. If no sprouts then you came back too soon. I hope this helps.
Morning Iwan and Carissa. Why don't you hire someone else goats, get 2...tether them on a long sturdy rope to a strong tree...not sure how long it would take them to eat mimossa..or even if it's good for them
@@FrankieOffGrid 👍🇯🇲 were I live..very large groups of goats with kids forage untethered along the grass verges of the main road . But usually only the females as Rammys fetch a really high price, so are prone to theft. I too watched 'Project Kamp' tackle their mimosa problem. ❤❤
How to get rid of the mimosa where you don't want them. Use a disc on your strimmer to cut the younger mimosa shoots down, ask somebody with a tractor to pull out the stump with the roots or burn the roots inside the ground (don't do this in summer, only in the rainy season).. Besides, Mimosa is a very good fire wood because it dries very quick. The shoots are nice to use them in the garten and so are the bigger ones for posts etc. Hope this helps, all the best, Ecki
Another great one! Just to nag you …please take care of your health. When we are young we take it for granted but as we get older those things we shouldn’t have done with broken ribs pays us a visit later in life. So please take proper care of yourself and your body will thank you.
The small mimosa trees make good woven stick fences. I enjoyed your video. It seems spring is a delightful season. It is so nice to be surrounded by nature and so much grows so easily in Portugal, a beautiful country.
When we got stuck in the tractor thankfully Max called in his neighbour with a bigger tractor, I so love our community - be great to see you guys soon@@FrankieOffGrid
There are many homemade wasp deterrents. Clove oil, lemon grass oil, mix with dish soap and water. peppermint oil on cotton balls placed in areas they repeatedly nest.
For the mimosaas, I can recommend watching videos from Project camp, they have tried a few different methods for removing them 🙌Thanks for a great video!
Your videos are always full of beautiful nature, love the little birds and that you name them as we don't get any of them other than the kingfisher here in Australia. Your salad looked very pretty, I'm sure it tasted just as good as it looked. Good to get rid of those damned wasps, they are very dangerous things to have so close to your living quarters. Frankie's haircut looks great, she looks thinner without all that hair.
Love to watch your videos. The calm it brings over me with all the birds, flowers cats and dogs running around. Forget about diesel and roundup. The only way to dig it up and keep it clear all year round. Those trees are a pest. Our farm forest here in SA were cleared every winter.
Iwan and Carissa!... Love your video with the bird wild life. I live in city and never seen cuco. Can show us a cuco on your land. Well i could google. You have done such good work on filming the bird i so much enjoy. I love all your video i try not to miss them. Iwan take care of yourself. Enjoy your week and God bless you all.❤
drill largest and many holes as poss in stump....fill with salt....wrap ali foil over stump keeping contact with salt...this sets up current and keeps out rain and light....winner!!
One of the most effective chemicals is SBK brushwood killer. Drill stump and apply diluted 2:1 mix. Have used successfully on Blackthorn, sycamore, willow etc. Good luck!
Hi guys, welcome to the world of the Silver Wattle. First and foremost, the seeds are toxic to dogs. The plant is native to Southeastern Australia. Loves to encourage bush fires and burns big grows to about 15 metres and lives around 25 years. I would guess it was introduced into Portugal because it puts nutrients into the soil and its quick growing shelters small trees and offers habitat to birds and small creatures. Now the fun bit how do you kill it? I am also against glyphosates firstly drill holes in the stumps fill with a mixture of rock salt and Epsom salts and seal with the wood you drill from the stump. Ideally do when not raining before or after. If this does not knock it out do again drill bigger and add vinegar. to kill wasp spray with dish soap and water or make traps using Apple cider vinegar you should find info on the Web. Good luck with all your future plans. Following from Australia. P.S. The Golden Wattle is our national flower.
Lovely video as usual. Thank you. Hmmm. Perhaps you can 'babysit' Nick and Andrea's pigs for a while. You can fence off the area temporarily with electric fencing and let them go mad on the mimosa. 😁😁😁
When you cut the tops off plants you're in effect pruning them encouraging more growth. The only way to get rid of them is to get the roots dug out repeatedly whenever they grow. Next door to me has allowed brambles to flourish in her garden & they're now coming through the fence, under my path etc. She's never going to co-operate despite my offer to dig them out for her so I have to just keep cutting off what appears through the fence - thus encouraging growth 😭 - & dig out any that come up in the border. Bad neighbours aren't much fun.😢 Using diesel, salt etc just pollutes soil & surely diesel is a fire hazard in any case. It's a known fact that a cat sitting on a solar panel will at least double the solar charge of the battery 😹
Good for you for not using roundup it damages the land for year's to come, I'd say diesel would do the same...I hope someone comes up with a good alternative for you, someone who really cares for the land and treats it with respect.. Good luck. Love your video's guy's 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
Loved the fire bits, so satisfying to see the annoying mimosa burned to nothing but as you say, a little bit terrifying too that green wood would burn so well. Loved the bird shots and IDs Always keen to see that
Drill a large hole in the tree stump, pour in Epsom salt rocks and a little water, put a polythene bag over the stump with an elastic band & walk away - will kill it off naturally...
I would suggest drilling the stumps, 2 or 3 good holes, and filling them with salt and then watering them so that it soaks in well. You don't have goats or cows that will lick the salt and for dogs and cats and other critters it's harmless. Removing the stumps will be a different task... Acacia and eucalyptus (plus the pampas duster), a problem we also have in the Cantabrian (northern Spain), although the growth of mimosas is controlled on farms with... donkeys or goats. Good luck!
Hi Carissa and Ewan, Just a quick note to say that I watch your blog every week and I love all the shenannigans that you all get up too and just how much you have done and I am also interested in what you are going to do, also I know it won't get done till Ewans ribs are better so Ewan eat a protein rich diet and it eill help your ribs get better quicker. It is also a good excuse to have a lovely steak have lots of cream etc etc oh and have a cooked breakfast all those lovely eggs you have there. Anyway the reason why I have dropped you a note We have just bought a Bluetti thanks to your advert we got one BLUETTI AC180 1800 watt and got nearly £500 knocked off the price thanks to you so BRILLIANT thank you get well soon Ewan thanks for your lovely channel xxxx debbie uk xxxxxxx
Good morning, Carissa and Iwan. I love the opening scenes of your videos… we just had an overnight snowstorm here in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada… so it’s lovely to see that there’s spring in your area. I’m glad that Darwin has recovered. Frankie and her sock thieving makes me smile😊 See you next week❤️❤️
You will need to seal all of those broken sheets up into strong plastic bags. I don't know how you do it in Portugal, but in Aussie you need to get specialists, and they do it with Local Council approval. Those sheets to me look very much like the old ASBESTOS sheets.....handle with care.
13:47 If you want to kill the trees, I have heard that driving copper nails in st the base will kill the mimosa tree, or any tree, something about the copper kills them. I looked it up on Google and it is something you can do, also you can put them in stumps to get rid of new shoots.
Hang up smaller brown paper bags where you don't want wasps. They don't like neighbors and think it's other wasps that have moved in and taken over the area, so they move and look for a new, more lonely place. Works in Sweden! Lovely video as always!
Nice ideia! I will try it, but I think it’s one of those garden myths! I am also using empty eggshells with that same idea for the cabbage white butterfly! Will see!
This one is working doingit for years
I love the bird spotting and naming the flowers and plants 😘
An exterminator taught me that when trying to get rid of wasp nests, never stand with the sun behind you. The wasps always fly straight out of their nests toward the sun. So angle your body so you are not in that path.He rarely got stung and didn’t wear a bunch of protective gear, but after decades of doing that job, he was almost immune to their stings.
Very useful information. Thanks for sharing
Apparently a solution of vinegar and salt poured into stump drilled with a few holes. Rots stump. Slow but effective. Might take a couple of applications.
Our mimosas r pink. There is PREEN. It's granular. Can be environmentally hazard. There is also "industrial" strength vinegar. Either way, it will take a LOT. If vinegar is used, DO NOT apply in the heat of the day. It will aphexiate u, trust me. Contact your local agricultural center. They might have a solution.
Also, for around $60.00 US dollars, u can get a brush blade for your weed eater, strimmer, to cut down your brush. Its a good investment.
Vinegar doesn't work on stumps for me & takes a ton to kill a weed down to roots. Usually only burbs the leaves off but grows right back.
Salt can make an area so only salt- tolerant plants will grow in the future. Be careful where you use it.
You can also use a very sharp knife to remove the bark of the mimosa 20 to 30 cm from the top to the base of the tree and the mimosa will slowly begin to dry.
For mimosas with a wider trunk, make holes in the trunk with a drill and apply chemicals.
I think you have to digg the roots out, only way. 🙈
Who doesnt like a saturday afternoon drinking an irish coffee and watching these videos whilst dozing off in bed. Not me! Thanks the pair of you.
The close ups of flowers, birds and animals are stunning! Fantastic!
Great job you two in the garden❤
Pour boiling water down by thr roots. As it loosens the soil you can aim to dig up its roots 😊😊
Out by the roots! I believe the only permanent solution - a small digger would be easiest (See over on 'Project Kamp' they have done this). It is a highly successful pioneer species that loves open position and uncovered soil. Once out, immediate super-thick mulch (anything from the garden, chopped up, will do). Then get large natives like oak in, that will deter the mimosa in the long run. Remove new seedings on sight.
If this seems too radical, then you could try the drilling holes/vinegar method, plus constant cutting back of new growth on the stumps, plus mulch and/or totally excluding the light with a tarp. It might eventually give up after a few years. But you have to stay on top of new growth all the time. For me this is a tougher route.
All the best! - we LOVE your channel - would be happy to help but we have a woodland (in Wales!) to keep on top of!
I find that thick mulch (I use about 3 inches thick) really works with reseeding. The suckers from neighboring trees will still need to be pruned, mainly in the spring. The weed block fabric doesn't work on seeds that land on top (only seeds already in the soil) but few seeds can root through thick mulch. The soil is too far away for the roots to reach.
❤❤❤❤❤❤ Frankie's haircut ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A mulching mower that is set high. Run it over the Acacia every fortnight or so. The mulch can be used as compost or allow to decompose 9on the ground. Eventually the main plant will give up.
Frankie's love of socks is just mother love for puppies she never had. Love you seeing you life in Portugal.
Goats are lovable but hard work, they prefer to eat fruit trees and vegetable gardens and are expert at escaping. They also need continual care, clean water, hoof care, shelter, good hay etc so think veryhard before considering having any. Thank you for the lovely videos
Haha we’ve fully considered all of those things which is why we’ll likely never get goats 🤣
How about donkey? Do they also go for the veggies?
Would love a donkey one day!
It's scary to see how inflammable mimosa trees are. 😳 The best option to remove roots is a small or medium size digger. 👍 Happy to see Darwin back on track. Salad looked delicious! Thank you for bird, plant, flower information. Black kitty still loves supervising olive trees. Frankie looks so handsome in his new 'fur cut.' 🥰 Love watching your videos! ❤🌟
Cutting the mimosas and weeds exposed that lovely stone wall. Love it.
It’s nice to see it again isn’t it?😅
Use a DIGGER ! To root out all the trees🤔. 🚜🚜🚜
They’re very expensive to hire for the day, would be great though!
Can u move the chicken fence over ? That will help… make it taller at the rock wall and voila!
A rolled up bandana around the head is good for sweat Iwan! ♥️👩🌾♥️
Those sheets are Big 6 profile. Modern cement based. To take the nails out without damaging the sheet use bolt cutters. Grip the head without cutting through and twist until you can get a wrecking bar underneath.
The way Iwan is approaching the problem of removing the mimosa, cutting them at ground level, will only make them spread in the small shoots coming up all over. This is because these trees spread underground along the root system. One has to remove the living root system. There are stump pullers one can purchase that operate on a lever system. I used to use a winch to pull roots, attached to a tree or vehicle. The problem with this is that the winch pulled horizontal to the ground. Your tripod method would help to pull straight up, which is an advantage. One still needs to dig around the root system enough to get the chain or wire wrapped around the root system sufficiently to get a good pull. One does have to remove them at the roots, but that will not solve the problem of the root system from the mimosa on the neighbor's land.
Having breakfast while watching your beautiful videos on Saturdays is the best! I'm in love with your animals. Greetings from Los Angeles❤
Lots of good advice here already re the Mimosa - I've also heard of putting boiling hot water on the roots as soon as you have cut the trunk, then covering with a tarp or cardboard to prevent regrowth.
(Be careful of using salt on the trees - it does work, but the salt can dissolve in water and run off into your vegetable beds, making the beds unproductive. You might want to think about which way the water drains before applying the salt.)
Hi there FOGGIES, an option next to the chooks are to clean the ground, salt it, landscape fabric on top with gravel. The crunchie gravel will definitely scare the foxes away and this way you reduce poison risk to your animals
This sounds interesting.. what kind of salt? Do you have a link to something? Great idea! Thank you!
We use normal coarse sea salt. I had to do this in my previous garden (we had an investation of pride of India - a listed illegal plant in my country). We just used the salt, black landscape fabric and gravel. End of shoots growing. They can't grow through and eventually die down.
Except salt contaminated the soil... sadly...
The only permanent way is to dig them out...
Hopefully it's done and dusted... check for seeds germinating and starting over
It may take years to eradicate it...
Eco plugs will sort any stump out and are a lot greener than roundup. If you want a 100% natural solution, you drill a few holes in the stumps, fill with salt and then plug the top with soil. Water it and replace the salt every week and it will drain the tree of all its nutrients until it dies. Love the channel!
Vinegar salt and dish soap:
the weed kill recipe calls for mixing together:
1 cup of salt
1 tablespoon of dish soap
1 gallon of vinegar
From Martha Stewart
I know it works on weeds, but I don't know about those trees. You may have to treat them several times but it's definitely not poisonous, that's for sure.
I love all the flora and bird names, so different from here. Iwan may consider reaching out to a supplier of battery-operated secateurs for grape and olive pruning.
I bought one after seeing Sarah (from Luke and Sarah) using one, she did so much. Best thing ever at my age (68), pricey but so worth it
I like how the cats and dogs come and check out what you are. doing. Your gardens are starting to look great. Iwan
rest and get better. Loved the close up shots of the pets and the flowers.
Frankie is looking good, she's still a full form, but her belly definitely looks slimmer. She also seems more agile, trying to keep up with Diogo. Love how much time your animals spend with your while you go about your chores, it's really special.❤
She’s getting there for sure! Her diet will continue!
Just a thought when you are pruning. Do you have a largish tarp you could drop the cuttings onto? This way, most seeds won't be able to drop off and re-establish, and you can drag it to where it's going to be disposed of. See a lot of mowing businesses do this to save double handling. Love your channel and journey ✨️💚🙏👣✨️
Yay Darwin!!!
She’s doing really well so far!
Instead of Roundup I use white vinegar with salt and washing up liquid in it. I cleared a very overgrown back garden (which scared away the person I was going to pay to clear it for me). I cut everything right down to ground level before spraying it all a couple of times with the solution. I then covered the whole area with cardboard to stifle any new growth of very high growing brambles and Himalayan Honeysuckle which looked like Japanese knotweed. I found that an old fashioned long handled scythe worked better than a strimmer, use as if raking everything towards you rather than swinging it. Perhaps you could find a less inflammable option to the cardboard, but it worked brilliantly, even though it took a couple of years to do it this way rather than use harsh weed-killer.
Epsom salts poured in to holes and sealed with wax apparently works 😊
You’re the second person to say that! I’ll definitely give that a go! Thanks
@@FrankieOffGrid I've tried this with vines and it didn't work for me.
I tried with a fig tree, didn't work either@@WriterGeek
Frankie, look so cute clipped down! Oh, the chicken looks good and healed up, but it's still blue!
Frankie looks like a puppy now!
Frankie is looking great! Love the hair cut and well done losing weight❤
you make my Saturday mornings peaceful and calming, thank you ☺
Thank you! So glad you enjoy them.
It might be worth trying a sheet of black plastic held down on the edges and left for a while to cook the shoots and subdue the growth. To make it easier to extract the nails, engage the claw of the hammer and slip a piece of 20mm wood under the claw to produce more leverage
I laughed at the chickens' reaction, when you throw the mimosa shoots on a heap!! Highly upset, because you chuck the greenery away😂. As if to say:" Human are you mad? That is food!!"
Extend the chicken area up near the rock wall. Maybe they can take care of the trees.
Take out the stump with a kind of claw with a tractor if you can. You have to do it with hemlock tree. But it will come back as long as you keep the old tree there. But the good thing is hemlock tree brings a lot of ants. The chickens should fest with them :-)
If you keep on cutting the new growth in the tree stump it will eventually give up and die. You need to be patient. I learned this from Jeff Lawton. I tried this method on a large Jukka tree which is very tenacious and it worked.
I use cardboard thick layers covered with tarpolin to keep light out. After 12 months or so, they should naturally die out with no light. I use this method to get rid of pernicious weeds on my allotment when I started it 4 yrs ago. Now im almost weed free, but it did take 14 months. And lots of bricks to hold it all down.
Hope all goes well
Regards Kim xx
Always at dusk or early morning when wasps are not fully awake & active, less chance of stings.
You local council or fire brigade should inforce the 50 mtr barrier to protect your property. Grinding out the stumps to below ground level, then cap them with cement. 😊 As for wasps and asbestos get serious 😮
Well done Frankie. , they are both beautiful pups. , I so enjoy watching them and both of you as you work hard. !! Well done
I love your calm videos, very typical of the Portuguese landscape.
Good to see Dan and Laura.
Oh my, a lovely video.. I’m glad Frankie is doing well with her weight.. we rounder figured folk need encouragement sometimes ❤️
Iwan.. behave. Do what you are told. 🤣
Carissa, I have never seen such a beautiful salad array.
Diogo, you are just so handsome 😉
Frankie looks amazing…..like a completely different dog….wow….❤
The chickens will take care of the seeds and new seedlings...you just need to give them access to the area.as you can see the chicken area is devoid of ant vegetation.
Lovely video guys❤ loved the sock find and the birdies. I have found out about how to kill mimosa from our friend Miguel
Thank you! Ah really?! Speak about it next time!
I had a similar issue with a tree called, 'Buckthorn.' It wasn't invasive until I cut down the mother plant and she sent runners everywhere as a survival response. Same would happen if I cut the suckers or runners. I am terrified of Round-Up but had no choice. So instead of spraying, I took sandwich bags with ties, poured the liquid into the bag, and then I put a limb and leaves and twist tied the bag closed. It kept the liquid from going anywhere or getting airborne and went directly to the root thus ending my buckthorn problem. I just controlled the application.
Further, with A. dealbata, cover the salted trunk with heavy soil or compost, to keep it moist, or with black plastic. To control the constant reinfection from your neighbour, it will be a seasonal routine to walk along that fence with a weeding prong implement and remove the young seedlings. Trimming them of, or slashing/strumming the green-trunked ones will only prune them. The roots will re-energise and resort with even thicker growth in late winter, early spring. 😢
On the acacias, exhaust the roots by routinely cutting off all sprouts and digging down or uprooting everything you can. Eventually the roots will be severely weakened and die. I'm doing the same and it's working a few years in...
Olá, for grown up trees one needs to cut a ring and peel the bark down until the root. There are best seasons for it… to fight the seeds deposit I believe you have the best soldiers the chickens!
Great content...I thought the chicken coop protest was hilarious. In regard to your Mimosas IMHO you'll never get rid if your neighbours aren't doing the same. I think you're already ahead of me...take a leaf from the Alan York school...think of them as an assett...harvest, strip and burn the rubbish and use the straight lengths in your garden walls/dividers. ✌️
Great to watch, with a little bit of envy of your lifestyle 😊
We used Epsom Salt to get rid of our cypress tree stump. Loads of info online to help.
Drill lots of holes in stump, fill with salt, vinegar, Epsom salts whatever you can get your hands on that is naturally acidic. Fill holes & cover with something waterproof. Reapply often. Chop & lift as many roots then blackout the ground with whatever you’ve got. Be persistent & it will pay off.
Surly there are ‘volunteers’ who are keen to give a hand. Your videos are so beautiful and you come across as such lovely genuine people there must be folk out there wanting to help out
my fig tree kept regrowing. Thankfully only one so I can cut off any new shoots every so often
1 cup of vinegar to 1 gallon of HOT water and a half cup of salt. Dig around to roots a bit and pour it around the roots. It you add a wee bit of dish soap it will kill weeds if you spray it on the weeds...
that is as environmental unfriendly as Roundup used on the spot. I would have no qualms using roundup for individual plants/painted on, the broad spraying of it is the problem
The scene is so peaceful
I get invasive trees in my yard, but my land is much smaller than yours. I cut them down with strimmers & and pruners, then come back about once a week or 2 to see if anything has resprouted. If you see any green sprouting, break them off. Do this weekly or biweekly & the roots & stump uses up all its energy stored in roots since it can't do photosynthesis. It dies. If you only clear an area at a time, an area small enough to keep an eye on like by the chicken coop, the trees are dead within a month or so. It works on brambles & ivy too. I have to create appointments in my calendar planner to remember to walk the area to look for sprouts, but it only takes a few minutes to do. If you come back to find leaves open, then you need to come back sooner next time to avoid photosynthesis. If no sprouts then you came back too soon. I hope this helps.
Morning Iwan and Carissa. Why don't you hire someone else goats, get 2...tether them on a long sturdy rope to a strong tree...not sure how long it would take them to eat mimossa..or even if it's good for them
I’ll look into whether or not they’ll eat it..
@@FrankieOffGrid 👍🇯🇲 were I live..very large groups of goats with kids forage untethered along the grass verges of the main road . But usually only the females as Rammys fetch a really high price, so are prone to theft.
I too watched 'Project Kamp' tackle their mimosa problem.
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I haven't looked, but I will eat my hat if they don't 😂@@FrankieOffGrid
Black kitty just loves pruning.😂😂😂😂😂
He really does!
How to get rid of the mimosa where you don't want them. Use a disc on your strimmer to cut the younger mimosa shoots down, ask somebody with a tractor to pull out the stump with the roots or burn the roots inside the ground (don't do this in summer, only in the rainy season).. Besides, Mimosa is a very good fire wood because it dries very quick. The shoots are nice to use them in the garten and so are the bigger ones for posts etc. Hope this helps, all the best, Ecki
“Nunez Nunez Nunez” 😊
Great to see her doing well 😅
Another great one! Just to nag you …please take care of your health. When we are young we take it for granted but as we get older those things we shouldn’t have done with broken ribs pays us a visit later in life. So please take proper care of yourself and your body will thank you.
The small mimosa trees make good woven stick fences.
I enjoyed your video. It seems spring is a delightful season. It is so nice to be surrounded by nature and so much grows so easily in Portugal, a beautiful country.
Going over mimosa in a tractor with chains on the back is unbelievably satisfying - welcome to try it anytime mate!
Can a Tesla tow a tractor ? 😉
When we got stuck in the tractor thankfully Max called in his neighbour with a bigger tractor, I so love our community - be great to see you guys soon@@FrankieOffGrid
Definitely! Once this weather sorts itself out we’ll pop round
There are many homemade wasp deterrents. Clove oil, lemon grass oil, mix with dish soap and water. peppermint oil on cotton balls placed in areas they repeatedly nest.
i love the peace in yours videos that bring me dream thank you
If asbestos is in a panel you should wet it before moving it, wrap it in plastic and dispose as per local law. 😊
For the mimosaas, I can recommend watching videos from Project camp, they have tried a few different methods for removing them 🙌Thanks for a great video!
Your videos are always full of beautiful nature, love the little birds and that you name them as we don't get any of them other than the kingfisher here in Australia. Your salad looked very pretty, I'm sure it tasted just as good as it looked. Good to get rid of those damned wasps, they are very dangerous things to have so close to your living quarters. Frankie's haircut looks great, she looks thinner without all that hair.
Love to watch your videos. The calm it brings over me with all the birds, flowers cats and dogs running around. Forget about diesel and roundup. The only way to dig it up and keep it clear all year round. Those trees are a pest. Our farm forest here in SA were cleared every winter.
Iwan and Carissa!... Love your video with the bird wild life. I live in city and never seen cuco. Can show us a cuco on your land. Well i could google. You have done such good work on filming the bird i so much enjoy. I love all your video i try not to miss them. Iwan take care of yourself. Enjoy your week and God bless you all.❤
We’ll try and get the Cuckoo, they’re quite tricky to get close to.
drill largest and many holes as poss in stump....fill with salt....wrap ali foil over stump keeping contact with salt...this sets up current and keeps out rain and light....winner!!
A lovely mixed salad.
Lol, I had to rewind and watch Diogo a few times in slow motion.😂
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One of the most effective chemicals is SBK brushwood killer. Drill stump and apply diluted 2:1 mix. Have used successfully on Blackthorn, sycamore, willow etc. Good luck!
You could always borrow a couple of pigs and fence that area and put them in there. They would do a heckuva job on the greenery.
I think you would find battery powered clippers really useful. Perhaps Kebtek will sponsor you.
Electrifying the fence would be a smart idea
Hi guys, welcome to the world of the Silver Wattle. First and foremost, the seeds are toxic to dogs. The plant is native to Southeastern Australia. Loves to encourage bush fires and burns big grows to about 15 metres and lives around 25 years. I would guess it was introduced into Portugal because it puts nutrients into the soil and its quick growing shelters small trees and offers habitat to birds and small creatures. Now the fun bit how do you kill it? I am also against glyphosates firstly drill holes in the stumps fill with a mixture of rock salt and Epsom salts and seal with the wood you drill from the stump. Ideally do when not raining before or after. If this does not knock it out do again drill bigger and add vinegar. to kill wasp spray with dish soap and water or make traps using Apple cider vinegar you should find info on the Web. Good luck with all your future plans. Following from Australia. P.S. The Golden Wattle is our national flower.
Loved the birds! The blue tit is gorgeous, the serin makes me think of our goldfinch in the states.
The goldfinches will turn up here soon.. I’ll make sure to get them on video
Is your rib feeling better now, Iwan? Ribs are the worst when it comes to hurting! Oh Lord, I loathe wasps! ❤️
If you spray F40 around window skirtings or the corrugated iron wall you'll get rid of the wasps.
ooooppps its WD-40 lol dont know why I wrote F40 must've been dreaming of Ferraris
What a bountiful harvest for your salad, my mouth was watering. You'll never find that in a shop. How awesome spring is.👍❤
It’s the best time of year!
Lovely video as usual. Thank you. Hmmm. Perhaps you can 'babysit' Nick and Andrea's pigs for a while. You can fence off the area temporarily with electric fencing and let them go mad on the mimosa. 😁😁😁
When you cut the tops off plants you're in effect pruning them encouraging more growth. The only way to get rid of them is to get the roots dug out repeatedly whenever they grow.
Next door to me has allowed brambles to flourish in her garden & they're now coming through the fence, under my path etc. She's never going to co-operate despite my offer to dig them out for her so I have to just keep cutting off what appears through the fence - thus encouraging growth 😭 - & dig out any that come up in the border.
Bad neighbours aren't much fun.😢
Using diesel, salt etc just pollutes soil & surely diesel is a fire hazard in any case.
It's a known fact that a cat sitting on a solar panel will at least double the solar charge of the battery 😹
Good for you for not using roundup it damages the land for year's to come, I'd say diesel would do the same...I hope someone comes up with a good alternative for you, someone who really cares for the land and treats it with respect.. Good luck.
Love your video's guy's 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
Found this for you... Alternatively, drill holes into the top of the stump, and pour rock salt or Epsom salt into the holes.
Bluetti panels are also great cat patios 🐈
Haha they really are!
Loved the fire bits, so satisfying to see the annoying mimosa burned to nothing but as you say, a little bit terrifying too that green wood would burn so well. Loved the bird shots and IDs Always keen to see that
Drill a large hole in the tree stump, pour in Epsom salt rocks and a little water, put a polythene bag over the stump with an elastic band & walk away - will kill it off naturally...
I would suggest drilling the stumps, 2 or 3 good holes, and filling them with salt and then watering them so that it soaks in well. You don't have goats or cows that will lick the salt and for dogs and cats and other critters it's harmless. Removing the stumps will be a different task... Acacia and eucalyptus (plus the pampas duster), a problem we also have in the Cantabrian (northern Spain), although the growth of mimosas is controlled on farms with... donkeys or goats. Good luck!
Thank you for filming the blossom & birds such a restful vlog ❤❤
Yes, covering the ground to block out light should help you stay on top of it.
Hi Carissa and Ewan, Just a quick note to say that I watch your blog every week and I love all the shenannigans that you all get up too and just how much you have done and I am also interested in what you are going to do, also I know it won't get done till Ewans ribs are better so Ewan eat a protein rich diet and it eill help your ribs get better quicker. It is also a good excuse to have a lovely steak have lots of cream etc etc oh and have a cooked breakfast all those lovely eggs you have there. Anyway the reason why I have dropped you a note We have just bought a Bluetti thanks to your advert we got one BLUETTI AC180 1800 watt and got nearly £500 knocked off the price thanks to you so BRILLIANT thank you get well soon Ewan thanks for your lovely channel xxxx debbie uk xxxxxxx
For the big ones, cut the mimosa down, drill a hole in the centre, and add salt and vinegar. It may take more than one pass, but they will die.
Good morning, Carissa and Iwan. I love the opening scenes of your videos… we just had an overnight snowstorm here in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada… so it’s lovely to see that there’s spring in your area. I’m glad that Darwin has recovered. Frankie and her sock thieving makes me smile😊 See you next week❤️❤️
You will need to seal all of those broken sheets up into strong plastic bags. I don't know how you do it in Portugal, but in Aussie you need to get specialists, and they do it with Local Council approval. Those sheets to me look very much like the old ASBESTOS sheets.....handle with care.
13:47 If you want to kill the trees, I have heard that driving copper nails in st the base will kill the mimosa tree, or any tree, something about the copper kills them. I looked it up on Google and it is something you can do, also you can put them in stumps to get rid of new shoots.