Phragmites

[bowhunter1023]

Spent yesterday and most of today in Medina County. Interesting to note the absence of poison hemlock and Johnsongrass along the road banks like we have down south and instead it's almost all phragmites from Tusc County on up. Is that a new thing for you northern boys? Is it considered an invasive? It's some cool looking stuff and it's definitely thick as hell, so I can see the upsides and downsides to it.

 

[jagermeister]

We’ve been inundated with Phragmites for 15 years or so. It gets worse as you get closer to Sandusky Bay and Lake Erie. It’s found up here pretty much anywhere that lays wet. There is a great deal of effort and money spent each year to keep it somewhat contained. I’m not a fan of phrag from an invasive species standpoint. However, I do believe it’s presence is a major reason we grow so many big deer up here around the marshes.

 

[jagermeister]

I should add, poison hemlock is thicker than shit up here nowadays too. It’s everywhere.

 

[Gern186]

I have some areas on my property that lay wet, however I don't have any phrag growing here. Any idea how to establish some?

 

[SNIPERBBB]

Highly invasive. Pretty much nothing else can grow once its established.

 

[SNIPERBBB]

I have some areas on my property that lay wet, however I don't have any phrag growing here. Any idea how to establish some?

Horrible idea.

 

[Big_Holla]

Phragmites are an invasive species and on the N end of Lake St. Clair and Harsens Island area they continually fight it with controlled burns each year. They say it chokes out nesting habitat as well as natural growing cattails and marsh grasses ducks and other critters like muskrats use for food and their shelters.

 

[Cogz]

Big time in wetland areas and leacheds in northern OH and Michigan from what I know. One area in Norton/Barberton had a huge fire over a wetland a few years ago from that stuff right along 76 near Barber Rd.

 

["J"]

Reading up on it it sounds a lot like how invasive kudzu is, and how goats will graze on it and keep it somewhat in check.

 

[LonewolfNopack]

You dont want to grow it. Lots of $ spent every year killing the stuff. I believe its illegal to sell too but could be wrong.

 

[at1010]

Oh yea! 77 up and down

- You’d trip over an autumn olive,tree of heaven and Bradford pear but luckily a nice bed of Phragmites would be there to cushion ones fall! Lol!

Keep killing them!!

 

["J"]

Oh yea! 77 up and down

- You’d trip over an autumn olive,tree of heaven and Bradford pear but luckily a nice bed of Phragmites would be there to cushion ones fall! Lol!

Keep killing them!!

I’ve got 5 Bradford pear trees around the property. They look nice for one week out of the year

 

[Sgt Fury]

About the only thing that stuff is good for is adding to a duck boat for camo. Once established, it will choke out the waterways.

 

[P8riot]

Sounds like something you get from sleeping with an unclean woman

 

[Jackalope]

I’ve got 5 Bradford pear trees around the property. They look nice for one week out of the year

Yeah but they smell like ass

 

["J"]

Yeah but they smell like ass

Fortunately we haven’t seen that part of them…. Yet….

 

[finelyshedded]

Yeah but they smell like jizz.

Fixed it for ya Joe. Lol

 

[bowhunter1023]

Just saw an isolated patch at the Rt. 7 & 50 interchange in Coolville. First I recall seeing anywhere below I-70. Lots of Japanese knotweed too, which is a whole 'nother conversation, especially along the Ohio River banks/islands.

 

[LonewolfNopack]

Reed Canary grass is another wet loving grass that is becoming more prominent in Southern Ohio. Scioto river bottoms are full of it.

 

[Stressless]

Japanese Knotweed and invasives in general. Twice a year chore to mix up some herbicide and wage genocide.