[MAIPC] Greetings from New Hampshire

[Marney Bruce]

I am shocked to hear you speak of ‘nuking' anything, and in this case a native plant. In most areas, bracken fern is best controlled by repeated pulling or mowing. Let’s go easy on the poisons!

Marney Bruce

> On Jul 15, 2021, at 8:23 AM, D. Clark <historictimekeepers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah,we took the coward's way out.  No stilt grass, no ailanthus, no wooly adelgid.  Lots of healthy hemlock.  Ok, it is just for now.  But it is a very nice change.
> 
> Anyway, we have 12 acres with a 1-2 acre opening infested with bracken fern.  There are some useful plants in there, mainly blueberry and coreopsis (?).
> 
> Before I nuke the bracken fern, is there a pre-emergent that works on it?  I want to get rid of as much as possible and let the seed pool do its thing.  We basically live on a sand pile created by the glacier and I doubt an honest meadow can be installed.  But I have been paying attention and lupens and cone flower seem to do well.
> 
> Bobcats, sows with cubs, turkeys, bats.  And millions of ants.  All very interesting.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>  
> Dewey Clark, 
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