#engeniscape

Okay, I moved the Ironweed outside today to harden off and had said I was confused because all the seedlings looked different, but I think I've worked out what is what.

I reuse dirt pods that don't successfully sprout so they have a seed bank of other native plants I've grown in the past:

These without the cerated leaves must be the Ironweed I actually meant to grow.

There are a few of these small seedlings in the base of some pods which are either Wild Strawberry or Rough Cinquefoil which I tried to grow last year.

The ones with the cerated leaves ID'd as Joe Pye Weed, which I did try to grow last year as well.

Also going outside today, the Showy Goldenrod, which had some (but far less) other plants mixed in as well.

This is going to take a while 🥵🪏

I just cleared a ton of non native grass today. I got about halfway to the creek.

There's a honeysuckle that's gotta go and there's an autumn olive that I'm going to be bad and move somewhere/save so I can eat them.

Funny enough there was another kind of avens already growing all over here so I just worked around it:

I'm just gonna start with this small corner so I don't completely take out the ecosystem that already exists here, but the bulk of the plants here are not native or invasive.

Cared muskingumensis - Muskingum Sedge

Carex hystercina - Porcupine Sedge

Glyceria striata - Fowl Manna Grass

Calamagrostis canadensis - Bluejoint Grass

Elymus riparius - Riverbank Wild Rye

Erigeron philadelphicus - Philadelphia Fleabane (which already grows here, my pic)

Ranunculus hisidus - Hispid Buttercup

Pakera aurea - Golden Ragwort (my pic)

Maianthemum canadense - Canada Mayflower

Geum rivaled - Water Avens (fav, a related species already grows here)