Types Of Timber

If your farm acreage has ample forestland, there are ways to earn some money from both timber and nontimber use. “Even with a good stand of woods, remember you will only be able to selectively harvest every five to 15 years anyway.” Wood only has...

You need to include plenty of small flowers with shallow, exposed nectaries. Allow your garden to stand through the winter. Soft-skinned ladybug larvae and many other beneficials are smothered by horticultural oil just as quickly as those pesky aphids...

They lay their eggs on stalks to protect them from predators—and each other! Green lacewings turn to cannibalism if no other food is present soon after they hatch. Ladybug Eggs If you find these eggs in your garden, consider yourself blessed.

I was recently invited by web-radio host Kate Copsey to join her on “America's Homegrown Veggie Show” to talk about insects in the garden and to discuss my forthcoming book, Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control...

Gambrel Roof The symmetrical gambrel roof has two sides and two angled slopes on either side that meet and form a point. In most timber-frame homes, the timbers are visible on the interior only; in post-and-beam construction, the timbers can also be visible...

I spoke of how you can achieve a 6' tall hedge almost instantly. Firstly let me say, this fence is not perfectly constructed. I used my table saw.An assortment of plants to decorate your lattice fence panel which will give it the appearance of a hedge.Note:...

Through its sourcing standards, the company has a stated preference for Forest Stewardship Certification standards, and it provides funding to map high-value conservation forests in Brazil and Indonesia.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency evaluate all wetland activities before issuing the required permits. Currently, no regulations prevent the logging of cypress in Florida, but environmental protection regulations...

Otherwise, you may waste months of work designing a dream home you can't afford or discovering too late that you can afford a larger residence. By creating a schedule of tasks and a time frame to complete them, you can bring order to chaos and avoid feeling...

It is a medium to small flowering tree that is native to the West Indies and South and Central America. Adding this tree to your landscape is worth the effort it will take to find the plant.

Many commercial timber enterprises select loblolly as the tree of choice, but growing loblolly pine trees is not exclusively a business endeavor. The columnar trunk of the loblolly is also very lovely, covered with reddish-brown plates of bark.If you...

Balsam fir trees often grow more shallow roots than Douglas firs, making them more likely to fall over in strong winds. Douglas firs can have more of a bluish-green coloring than balsam firs.Balsam firs can live for up to 200 years, while Douglas firs...

For centuries they have held economic, aesthetic and ecological importance. Pine cones are used as decorations and also in crafts. They are important economically primarily because their wood is used for timber.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye-View of the World by Michael Pollan; Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002 Although it's not a gardening book per se, it is an incredibly interesting read.

The adventure at the new office/studio continues. No big problem. I also discovered a lot of old, fir flooring planks. They will be perfect to use in my current art project. Stuck in a corner of the room that will be my new workshop were a whole raft...

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. Smaller varieties are often planted as ornamental trees.

Pine straw mulch remains loose and allows air and water to infiltrate the ground below, unlike firmer mulches that tend to crust over. Landowners growing pine trees to sell for timber may not realize they have an annual cash crop when the trees shed their...

“I'd rather see a barn fixed, even if it's not historically correct, than bulldozed because it falls into disrepair,” he says. In New York, for example, farmers can deduct up to 25 percent of the cost of repairs done to barns built before 1936.

Prevent overgrowth and spreading by installing root barriers around the plants. The timber bamboo (Bambusa oldhamii) grows an amazing 2 to 3 feet a day until it reaches 45 feet or higher.Clumping bamboo spreads very slowly and is considered non-invasive.

If you understand the character of your woods—both the plants that grow there and noteworthy features such as streams, cliffs and springs—you can creatively and responsibly make it a valuable part of your farm.

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...

The barn is where we raise our meat birds for the freezer, and we keep our layers there, too. As the weeks progressed, the most fascinating aspect was watching as the building was painstakingly leveled and re-erected.

A good friend gave me an early Christmas present last week. What caught my eye at that zoo a few years back is also the reason I recognized the buttonbush so quickly. Even though it came to me in its dormant state, I recognized it immediately.

Anvil use can be as simple as a base for straightening bent metal or as complex as making metal bowls or other decorative work. Other bases include timbers bolted together or a steel base.

People like neat landscapes no weeds, no bugs, and no leaf litter. 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, but recently...

A regular balanced fertilizer with anof 10-10-10 is fine once the tree is a couple years old.Slash pine trees also benefit from a layer of mulch around the base, which keeps weeds in check and helps keep the soil evenly moist.

Appreciated since Victorian times, Coleus (now Solenostemon) lights up gardens and window boxes like precious gems. I consulted with representatives from Gaia Herbs in North Carolina, and with Coleus expert Ray Rogers in search of health and nutrition...