I just wanted to explain about some of the unforeseen consequences of spraying along fence lines with herbicide. Don't worry, its nothing drastic involving poisoned alpacas or any such thing ...so you can relax.



Spraying along the fence lines means you can mow close to the fence and without having to stoll up and down with the weed whacker achieve a tidy looking fence. It looks good and is cheaper than whacking the grass all summer long. So whats the problem?



Of course if you kill the grass along the fence line then you create a seed bed for local weeds and here you can see that a fence line we sprayed last year is now home to a very grateful weed colony. So in no time flat you have a bigger problem than the one you started with.



If the ground is very dry and clay like then even the weeds will pass you buy and the ground will dry out and start to crack just like this example here....as you can see these large deep tacks are now starting to compromise the integrity of the fence...I will have to keep a very close eye on this as the weather heats up.

Bottom line, spray your fence lines for that neat "country club" look, but remain vigilant for unplanned events...

The other development has been in what we call Home Field, the pasture nearest to the barn and house. This pasture was used extensively throughout the winter and when spring came the grass had been cropped quite short by the alpacas and was over taken by the local weeds and clovers in no time.



Tonight the sun will set at 9.03pm and that is the latest time of the year, so from here on in the nights will be growing ever shorter.

Keep the names coming for the brown alpaca boy its decision time this weekend.

As always thanks for calling by and I hope you are enjoying my story of life on the alpaca farm.


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