If anyone has questions concerning invasive plants, native plants, identification of plants feel free to ask any time, I do this for a living and I want to help make everyone more aware of this beautiful green earth, and our responsibility as it’s stewards.

@horticult Is there any place on-line to track Hogweed's spread?

Unfortunately there is no one specific place to track the spread of invasive plants, this website puts out alerts on all invasive species and they update when it’s spotted in new areas. https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/index.shtml.

City or state parks services are the best resource to find out if a new invasive species has been spotted in your area.

Unfortunately most invasive occur on residential land, and oftentimes the landowner is not informed of the potential ecological threat.

Snake head fish have been a huge problem too..also from Asia

Silver carp too.

It's like Kudzu, those Asians are killing us. Yikes.

The State bird of South Dakota is the Chinese ring necked pheasant and killing it is a major tourist attraction for us here.

My grape's

I have a great book on viticulture if your interested in it

@V.Balboa - PA that's awesome

nice!!!!

Anyone have methods to get tomatoes to be less acidic? Mine are coming in overly acidic and tart. The problem is in all 4 varieties I planted so I don’t think it’s just the variety.

Dam I wish I would have saw your post earlier @Prestor John Add more Garden Lime to your soil

@V.Balboa - PA thanks. Next year my tomatoes will be on point!

No problem just Remember to save All your leaves this Fall

@Prestor John

Spinach sprouted!

Nice but How are you growing them in the Winter ?

This is my Garden area don't forget to rake and bag all the leaves that you can for spring

because when the weather breaks I till them into the soil and pile the rest into a large pile to decompose into Leave compost which is The Best Compost you can have

the results speak for themselves

it will turn your soil into a subsistence known as "Black Earth"

which is soil that is super high in carbon

Loamy goodness.

yes @Der Seeteufel - SD leaf compost is the Best but it does rise your acid levels in your soil so the advice i would give is to add some garden Lime when tilling the garden

also add some manure to boost the Nitrogen levels as well

if you do those three thing you can grow anything with Ultra High yields as a result

Once my GF fixes the disaster that is my garden I'll post some pictures.

Nice

I got to put and replace some Grapevine this spring

Wine grapes?