Tag: Fish Trails
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Starting a new pollinator garden…
contributed by Roberto Gaitan Saturday’s highlight is the start of a new pollinator garden in the open area of the site. While our first one is under a Texas Ebony, with its rich soil, the new garden will have direct sun for most of the day. We turned over the rough soil and will use…
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The work continues…
contributed by Roberto Gaitan The plants added to the pollinator garden look good and healthy. We added a few plants and pulled guinea grass to extend the garden. Grass pulled off the hillside to add plants there too. We did make progress on clearing some Brazilian Pepper though there is plenty more to keep us…
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The stump lives…for now
contributed by Roberto Gaitan While we had another productive Saturday, we had a stubborn Brazilian Pepper stump that just would not give up. It will live for another day or week as we replace a broken shovel and get more do-nuts! Thanks to all that came. It is hard work but a great site to…
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Slow but steady…
contributed by Roberto Gaitan Thanks to the crew that helped out on Saturday. It was our first start at 7:30 am and it was worth it! The temperature was perfect…as was the morning view! The crew worked hard all morning. Thanks to Noemi for taking photos of our work crew. We continued the war against…
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Attacking guinea grass
contributed by Roberto Gaitan After a rain-out on Saturday, we met to pull guinea grass from the top area of the fish trails. We mowed the grass we had trimmed last week…until Molly broke the mower. I was thinking the area underneath the ebony will make for a great spot for a pollinator garden. We’ll…
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Cleared upper area
contributed by Roberto Gaitan With the sun still beating down on the area we worked on last Saturday, the crew yesterday began clearing off the upper area, the area at the end of the parking area. The debris pile from Saturday had been taken away so we started a new pile. The debris that was…