Timber Warehouse

For advice, I turned to Ann Larkin Hansen, co-author of A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods (Storey Publishing, 2011), who lives with her husband on 250 acres of farmland and woodland in northwestern Wisconsin.

Stop using pesticides. Alternate vegetable rows with drifts of flowers to keep beneficial insects right where the highest level of pests are often found. Plant the right kinds of plants.

They are proof that the insect world is breathtakingly beautiful! To see more images of the insects I find in my garden, you are welcome to friend me on Facebook at Jessica Walliser.

« More Dirt on Gardening » Tags beneficial insects My favorite parts are when I share the interesting ways I shot all the macro images of insects for the book (I had a refrigerator full of bugs!) and when we discuss how companion planting can attract...

Shiplap siding is made from wooden boards with grooves cut into the edges to allow the boards to overlap, while board-and-batten siding is a combination of vertical boards with a “batten” or narrow strip of wood that covers the joints where the boards...

(I apologize to all the carpenters who are cringing at this point.) Adjust as needed to keep all edges even, ane then nail the lattice panel to the 2x4's all around.Simply lay the 2 landscape timbers parallel to one another on the ground at about 8' apart.Measure...

Kimberly-Clark was the first major tissue company to require wood-fiber suppliers to gain independent certification for their fiber activities. For a list of those companies contacted for participation in the FFD Project that did not disclose, visit the...

Henderson Wetland Protection Act, passed by the Florida legislature in 1984, prevents any forestry activity that significantly changes the wetlands or impairs the flow and of water in, around or through a wetland.

Determine Your Budget There's always a link between what you want and how much it costs, which is why you should meet with a lender early in the process to determine a ballpark budget.

Adding this tree to your landscape is worth the effort it will take to find the plant. Tabebuia tree care is easy breezy and perfect in warmer zones in many locations and has no root problems.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

It's an important timber tree and a prime choice for wind and privacy screens. The columnar trunk of the loblolly is also very lovely, covered with reddish-brown plates of bark.If you are thinking of growing loblolly pine trees, you'll see that each loblolly...

However, Christmas tree growers cannot usually farm Douglas firs outside their native habitats. Douglas firs are also not technically true firs because they do not drop their cones to spread seeds, like balsam and other firs do.

Pine cones are used as decorations and also in crafts. Siberian dwarf pine, mountain pine and bristlecone pines are examples of pines that grow in environments hostile to other types of trees.

I'm not sure what they expected me to say, but I got the feeling that they were surprised a bit by some of my answers. Science-based but incredibly fun to read, Grissel hammers home the importance of diversity in our landscapes and the impacts we humans...

Photo by Rick Gush I may use my new grape squeezer to make grape juice next year. Some of my friends have these machines, and they use them to squeeze the juice out of their grapes before they make it into wine.

Maples are important for timber and sugar production. In Ohio for instance, black maple typically blooms in April, mountain maple in June.Although most maple trees flower between March and June, the silver maple is an exception.

Call several and ask their current price. If you have access to a truck, cart the pine straw to the truck and dump it out.Drive to the pine straw producer you've chosen. He will weigh your pine straw, pay you, bale the straw and sell it.

For new hardware with period appeal, Bultman recommends contacting a blacksmith. “I'd rather see a barn fixed, even if it's not historically correct, than bulldozed because it falls into disrepair,” he says.

Bamboo is available in running and clumping varieties. Clumping varieties form shallow root masses that stay in a clump.Running bamboo varieties grow more quickly than clumping plants, with an average growth in height of 3 to 5 feet per year.

This expert can help you learn about the plants growing in your forest, including the poisonous or rare ones—in both cases, avoid them! You'll likely want to spend more time on your own with field guides, but a naturalist will offer insightful information...

This requires the use of a crane or boom truck, and while Boyle makes it sound relatively simple (“Take the wooden pegs out that hold the joints together, lift the beams off, put them on a tractor trailer, and move them to a new site,” he says), it...

Sure enough, there were plenty of surplus two-by-fours to frame it and lots of granary boards to floor it. We thought Ralph's ideas were a stroke of brilliance. But the worst was a nagging problem with the foundation.

It's unique, and even the seedpods are interesting. Lucky for me, my friend did manage to find it at a local nursery that never carried it before, and he nabbed it, knowing how much I've wanted one.

If you are going to use your anvil for cutting metal, this is the place to do it. It is used as a base for punching holes in metal. It's a multi-hole, rectangular steel block that you can place on the anvil, positioning the selected hole over the hardy...

Prior to this time, the timber industry used these lumber leftovers as hog fuel. The problem is that this theory has very little scientific evidence to establish its effectiveness.Compost teas and extracts are traditionally used as liquid organic fertilizers,...

Slash pine () is known by a number of alternative names, including swamp pine, Cuban pine, yellow slash pine, southern pine and pitch pine. This is a good-sized tree that reaches heights of 75 to 100 feet at maturity.Slash pine is an attractive tree with...

Stimulating cAMP results in complex interactions within body cells that are beyond the scope of this article. I consulted with representatives from Gaia Herbs in North Carolina, and with Coleus expert Ray Rogers in search of health and nutrition information...