Poor Rick and Clint!!

I would eradicate the Bermuda grass, sorry but I hate it. I want zoysia.

second- I would eradicate the Birch trees, the shade is great but the roots are terribly invasive.

third- I would eradicate the sidewalk going to the back door, its too low and it fills up with water when it rains, I have stepping stones on my sidewalk, how stupid is that?

LOL. I would also eliminate the dog owners that let their dogs poop in others yards when they walk them.

Bind Weed....aka morning glory. The neighbors dog so I can mow the lawn without cleaning up first. Johnson Grass

I would like to eradicate the crows, so I can stop picking road kill out of my birdbath.

Ha. I would like them to stop pulling up my Sempervivum and stop picking at the Delosperma plants!

A lot of people say they pull up plant tags.

I just switched my bird feeders to all sunflower seeds because those other birds don't like it. I like Goldfinches and they love sunflower seeds! I think the crows are too lazy to crack the sunflower seeds.

virginiarose said:Poor Rick and Clint!!
third- I would eradicate the sidewalk going to the back door, its too low and it fills up with water when it rains, I have stepping stones on my sidewalk, how stupid is that?

The sidewalk to my front porch settled sometime in the 25 years since the house was built, and floods everytime it rains. I filled it in with mini-pine-nuggets and have a nice path from the driveway to the front porch now.

I wonder if the pine nuggets would float down the sidewalk like the mulch in my flower bed.

Sounds like a good idea.

clintbrown said:I just switched my bird feeders to all sunflower seeds because those other birds don't like it. I like Goldfinches and they love sunflower seeds! I think the crows are too lazy to crack the sunflower seeds.

They are probably too big to balance their self on the small perches. I only put out sunflower seeds, cheep black ones, I have a lot of finches and black-caped chickadees. Plus the Red birds (cardinals). Sometimes the Doves will hang-out on the ground under the feeder. I do not have much trouble with the squirrels since I got a new feeder, Its a NONO feeder and the squirrel can only get one seed at a time so he gets frustrated and leaves, swishing his tail like he is mad. Who cares?

I love watching the Doves. They are so smart to sit on the ground and wait for the other birds to drop their food.

Sure, why put effort into it?

The squirrels will eventually figure out how to pry open the NONO feeder mesh a little wider. Or they'll realize that if they make it swing, seeds will drop out the sides of it. At least the GA squirrels figured that out. So I use my NONO feeder *far* away from the other bird feeders, and the squirrels go after it and leave the others alone. My primary feeders have a wire cage on springs -- when a squirrel jumps onto it, the springs lower the cage and little decorative metal leaves cover the ports. These have been the best-working ones for me for almost 10 years now. It takes the squirrels a lot longer to figure out a work-around (I don't think anything is totally squirrel proof).

I get titmice, nuthatches, cardinals, woodpeckers, goldfinches, chikadees, sparrows and more at my feeder, and doves, towhees, and chipmunks underneath it to collect the spillage. And that's just the one on my porch. I have no idea what all goes to the other ones scattered around.

I do have woodpeckers in the front yard that come to the suet feeder. I put a small suet(hot pepper) inside a small suet feeder and put the small feeder into the big suet feeder. I also have a strong metal feeder I put peanuts in for the blue jays. Actually the blue jays help keep the squirells away, once they adopt your yard as their territory, I have seen them chasing squirells. Also I have seen Mocking Birds chasing squirells. If any should get near the nest.

The feeders with the ports don't work around here because they just hang upside down and pull the bar up.

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My three things would be:

1. Rodents (squirrels and rabbits especially)
2. Cynanchum louisea, this viny weed is everywhere in my garden and neighborhood and just keeps resprouting indefinitely from root fragments.
3. Ornithogalum umbellatum aka stars of Bethlehem. Yes, the flowers are very pretty but only one in every 10000 plants actually blooms. In the meantime, its spring foliage is so dense that it smothers and chokes out everything in sight.

I have a few other annoyances like garlic mustard, sorrel and mint that are quite easy to manage in the landscape compared to the horrors listed above.

Wow those weeds are terrible!

1. Any temps above 105 degrees
2. granite rocks ground cover
3. destructive birds

I'd go with # 1, except I'd change it to no temps over 95° And add no drought!

Clint:

>> The lady across the street has dogs and cats. I lost it and went off a couple of weeks ago after her dog dug up my new rose bush.

Hmmm. Maybe I could help you fill in that hole ... they say that spot composting is a practical way to dispose of ... unwanted organic matter ...

LOL. Luckily I planted it back before it died.