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RE: September Garden Update for the SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge
Oh you must work year round for your plants! It's all beautiful. Fall colors are the best colors.
Around here, we are encouraged to pull down any climbing vines because they are taking over, but they do this in the fall! Besides being quite beautiful all year round. So I leave them. I'm sure I will hear about it one of these days. The porcelain berries, which are especially beautiful, are especially reviled.
Where is it you are from where vines are taking over? So happy you are enjoying the beauty of these vines and I hope you will be left alone to continue enjoying them for many more years to come!
Upstate New York. "Invasive" vines are smothering trees and shrubs along parkways and roads. The only way to stop them of course is to poison them, but that kills everything else along with them. There have been initiatives to get armies of folks out there pulling them up, which of course spreads them by the bits that get left behind - these initiatives to my knowledge have never worked. Maybe the vines are trying to tell us something about parkways and roads. Maybe they are giving a protective coating to the trees and shrubs already there, a kind of seed saving enterprise so that long after the roads are gone, the stuff that used to grow there happily can come back. Vines are interesting though, so robust, grow so quickly. They are here for a reason.
I like to see how plants would just regreen the earth once we are gone. I often look at the footprint I have left on the land and know that it would soon return to forest with all that really stuck out would be the metal roofs we put on our house.