Job log
Recent jobs and field notes.
Why buckthorn comes backThe seed bank is the actual opponent, not the stems. What years one through five look like, and what a contract should commit to if it is honest.Fall cleanup: what to cut and what to leaveMost fall cleanups take too much. What actually has to come off a property before winter, and what is doing a job right where it stands.Seeding after the regradeWhat goes under the seed, why it goes in layers, and why watering is most of the job. The follow-up to the front yard regrade.Read the water before you plant anythingWhere water goes on a property decides what belongs where. Walk it in a storm before you decide anything, because the yard has already made most of the decisions for you.Fall is the window for buckthornBuckthorn holds its leaves green weeks after everything native has dropped. For a few weeks each fall you can see exactly what you are dealing with.Front yard regrade, start to finishTurf stripped, grade re-cut with a tracked mini skid, soil spread and raked out, boulders set into the beds. The unglamorous middle of an install, photographed.What cut-stump treatment actually looks likeThe difference between clearing buckthorn and removing it is what happens to the stump in the sixty seconds after the saw. Photographed close enough to see. 