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Identifying Invasive Plants and Project Goal

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The video identifies invasive Spotted Knapweed, a plant that hurts to touch, spreads rapidly, and alters soil chemistry, displacing native plants. It is contrasted with native Beebalm, which is beneficial for pollinators and has medicinal properties. The goal is to mow the invasive knapweed before it seeds to prevent further spread, while preserving beneficial plants. Mechanical removal (mowing) is preferred over chemical treatments to maintain an organic environment.

Goal: Identify invasive plants and understand the ecological purpose of mulching.

Tools and materials

  • Beebalm — A native plant to be preserved
  • Spotted Knapweed — The invasive plant targeted for removal

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down we move it towards the snail okay good morning sunshine oh good morning to you too honey I was actually talking to you about all right all right so we are being our field is being invaded these are not native plants right here right yeah those guys are evil okay so tell me about them a little bit will you I don't know anything I think most of what I know is that maybe it's spotted nap weed I'm pretty sure okay it hurts to touch yes it does and um and what it does is it also change Alters the soil chemistry so that other plants hey come on can't grow so yeah yeah it's it's literally taking over like after the years of being here you could see a significant difference just in three years yeah this flower and it's slowly creeping over the whole property now and there's all sorts of amazing plants here raspberries blueberries blackberries yarrow black-eyed Susan like and it's just taking over all of these guys the problem is though we have some good ones mixed in with the bad ones and stuff that we want to save that look identical yeah right so let's um pretty good what is that called the Bumblebee weed or something bee balm right here so this is yeah I'll look at you you already know you don't even need me well you taught me right I had no clue so here's bee bomb you want to hold the bee bomb for me yeah same color same shape different size and here is the invasive it is like yeah pretty much the same color but obviously very different from far away though it would probably be harder to tell yeah you just see the purple but yeah bee balm is amazing look it's a super big pollinator plant the the good one the good native plant yes the the bees and the butterflies and it's medicinal for us as well it's got different properties also natural bug repellent which is cool but as I look out here I found one bee balm and the rest of this is and this this didn't exist a couple of years back oh yeah here's a nice path to the balm and then there's you know like this is Black Eyed Susan which I really want to like Eco princess and stuff yep so we got to kind of go through here and find the localized heavy spots of this invasive plant evil every villain is lemons evil if you know where that is quoted from you are awesome that's all I'm gonna say yeah you're part of the cool people club like Cassidy and I evil every villain yes before it seems that's the point just spews it everywhere and it'll never stop spewing it so he's gonna get it before before it seems which is…

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