Backyard trails

I made a few more backyard additions, and then rode them. A little over three miles. Enough to act as a substitute, but not quite the real thing.
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TJYeti said:
Hey, same here🙂. I replaced the Planet X overweight fork with an Echo, and I’ve got a bomber fork I occasionally swap on.
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That looks great! Looks to be in really nice shape.

I had mine setup pretty much exactly like yours until Its recent DJ makeover.
 
Quick vid I took yesterday of my backyard trail. Didn't realize the POV was terrible until I checked the vid at night and today it's raining so I can't reshoot. Sorry about that. I'll shoot another next time it's nice out. Trail has multiple paths and at 36 seconds I'm reminded of the tree that fell on one of the sections last weekend that I forgot to clear out. Scratches the itch and gives my daughters (twin 6 year olds) a taste of trail riding for when the parks open up again because they can't wait to go with me.

 
dsangie said:
I never knew what it was, but now that you mention it I think it is burning bush.
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When I started building trails at 6mr I walked the trails with the park’s naturalist. She taught me to become aware of NJ’s tremendous invasive plant/tree issue. She asked me to think of the trails as dividers of the invasive plants. You would never know it but I’ve worked to ID invasive plants and create a corridor where they exist less.
 
jdog said:
When I started building trails at 6mr I walked the trails with the park’s naturalist. She taught me to become aware of NJ’s tremendous invasive plant/tree issue. She asked me to think of the trails as dividers of the invasive plants. You would never know it but I’ve worked to ID invasive plants and create a corridor where they exist less.
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Very interesting. I've got these two completely surrounded, but I'm sure their seeds travel far & wide. I dont think I see any other examples around our hood. My kids love to monkey around on them. I battle some pricker bushes, a little poison ivy, vines and a ton of what I think is Japanese Stiltgrass.
 
dsangie said:
Very interesting. I've got these two completely surrounded, but I'm sure their seeds travel far & wide. I dont think I see any other examples around our hood. My kids love to monkey around on them. I battle some pricker bushes, a little poison ivy, vines and a ton of what I think is Japanese Stiltgrass.
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Fricking stiltgrass, the bane of my yard! Grows rampant in the forest all around me, constantly encroaches on my yard and choking out my grass. The only product i found that works to weed it out of the grass is Bayer Acclaim Extra which isn't cheap at almost $100 per pint. Ground clear works for large patches but of course it kills everything else so thats a double edge sword.
 
JonF said:
Fricking stiltgrass, the bane of my yard! Grows rampant in the forest all around me, constantly encroaches on my yard and choking out my grass. The only product i found that works to weed it out of the grass is Bayer Acclaim Extra which isn't cheap at almost $100 per pint. Ground clear works for large patches but of course it kills everything else so thats a double edge sword.
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Stiltgrass is strong stuff. It has just about taken over half my back yard. The stuff growing in the woods around the edges I roundup and it comes right back. It made its way into the lawn before I was aware. I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to get rid of it.
 
TJYeti said:
Stiltgrass is strong stuff. It has just about taken over half my back yard. The stuff growing in the woods around the edges I roundup and it comes right back. It made its way into the lawn before I was aware. I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to get rid of it.
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It is possible to get it under control, but if your yards is as bad as that, it will take a few seasons to transform. Like you, i hit the edges and patches in the treeline with ground clear to keep it from encroaching. When it was bad in the yard, i was doing whole yard spray treatments with Acclaim Extra. That herbicide is effective and you will see the stilt browning while the grasses are fine. A later season area or spot treatment might be necessary to get any stubborn patches. Then, when it dies out late season, manual raking or hand pulling to remove, then autumn overseeding for those patches is necessary. The following spring, more overseeding might be needed for the bare patches if you're effectively killing them out. Its a long process, but its do-able. It's expensive, but a pint goes a long way as the dilution rate is pretty high. Use a surfactant additive to get it to cling to the leaves and a dye to see where you've sprayed if you're doing large swaths.
 
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