finally following through on my friend's advice on buckthorn removal, and realizing for the first time how much sunlight they've been robbing from my little plot TT_TT #gardening #buckthorn

Any forest experts on here? I'm trying to turn my backyard forest into a healthy oak-hickory food forest and while I know what I need to get rid of (buckthorn, honeysuckle, creeping bellflower) I don't really know what the understory is *supposed* to look like.

Where should the shrubs/small trees be in relation to the big ones? What should go at the edges vs in the middle? Most of the info I've found by googling is geared toward managing a forest for logging which is obvs not helpful.

Thanks in advance!

#oak #hickory #forest #FoodForest #invasiveSpecies #understory #buckthorn
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Max this morning. 27 degrees out. Woke up to lots of #Snow coming down & tons of accidents as I took John to school. It will snow all day. No #Sun.

But it's #Fabulous snow for #Snowballs & a Snowman. Every time I threw the tennis ball, it gathered snow just rolling to a stop. Then Max had to sniff to find it. In between throws, I took out more #Buckthorn.

Max loves fresh snow & could #Fetch for hours in it. I made it about 40 minutes.

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