Our Own Personal Jungle
By MrsJ
@SophiaMorros (5046)
Belews Creek, North Carolina
July 20, 2019 4:57pm CST
Last night the chickens weren’t quite ready to be shut in and I was short about 500 steps from my daily 10,000 so I wandered down into the creek bottom at the back of our yard.
My husband has been keeping some of the growth a bay so it isn’t quite the impenetrable jungle it has been in the past.
The soil is rich and, unlike other areas of our yard, the ground is rarely too dry even in the heat of summer. Unfortunately, any produce I’ve grown down there has gone to feed the local wildlife.
It’s a pretty place. Lush and quiet with plenty of blinking fire-flies to add to the area's ambiance. Too bad the mosquitos seem to really enjoy the area as well…
Do you have areas of your yard that are useless for any reason?
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@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
20 Jul 19
We have just over 2 acres. About 1/3 of it we can't even get to because it's on the other side of a creek and is a complete jungly tangle and the log we used to use to cross the stream has washed away someday we'll build a bridge.
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@MALUSE (69416)
• Germany
20 Jul 19
We have a garden behind the house with trees* and gooseberry and red and black currant bushes and flowers but no vegetables. Nobody collects the berries. They are eaten by birds. So the garden is useless if you're looking for things you can eat. But we sit there every day the weather permitting. And in this respect it's very nice. There are similar gardens to the right and to the left and bordering from the houses in the street parallel to ours. So there is a long green area and we're ten minutes on foot from the town centre.
*The highest tree is a sequoia. It's higher than the three storey house.
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@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
20 Jul 19
We have a LOT of trees in our yard and the only ones that are shorter than our house (also three storeys) and the saplings. We have a number of trees that are around 30 meters tall.
@LadyDuck (457195)
• Switzerland
21 Jul 19
@SophiaMorros We also have a small brook that run on the side of our garden, at least no one can build there.
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@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Jul 19
City and suburban properties tend to be small.bout in the more rural areas there tends to be a lot of variation.
Part of the reason our lot is so large is because it backs up to a creek that floods about 1/3 of our property when the weather is very wet so the land is not likely to be developed anytime soon.
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
21 Jul 19
You have a very nice place fresh , clean and green. The mosquitos could be driven out through smoke or spray. We don't have areas like that. I reside in the urban city. When I was young I lived in the province, so peaceful. I also had seen some fireflies.
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
21 Jul 19
@SophiaMorros oh I see. I have not seen bats in real only in TV and movie. Your place seems so safe and foods line veggies and fruits are abundant. You're lucky there.
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@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Jul 19
We don't try to control the mosquitos (except by making sure we aren't responsible for any unnecessary standing water) they feed the dragonfly and bat populations.
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@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Jul 19
@cacay1 we currently have a small colony of bats living under the waves on our garage. They make a mess of the concrete but they are very good for the environment.
@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
20 Jul 19
It would have been of the mosquitos had gone elsewhere!
@MALUSE (69416)
• Germany
21 Jul 19
@SophiaMorros I couldn't live there. The mosquitos would eat me. Mosquitos love me.
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@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Jul 19
@MALUSE the mosquitos aren't bad during the day and in the evening we don't longer outside.
That was one of the things we particularly enjoyed in Bavaria last summer: the absence of bugs!
@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
21 Jul 19
We have a lot of space back there.
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@sophie09 (34246)
• Indonesia
21 Jul 19
@SophiaMorros you should build a play yard for your children or grandchildren
@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
20 Jul 19
@SophiaMorros haha good to know that. You know your jungle.
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@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
20 Jul 19
Except Grandmother's house is not down there... 
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@Morleyhunt (21736)
• Canada
23 Jul 19
No garden this summer. It was too wet to even consider tilling until well into July. Our short growing season and upcoming vacation means that our garden is three pots with tomatoes. We hope to bring in a few loads of topsoil to raise the low lying wet spot.
@JudyEv (325105)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jul 19
We have mostly cleared land but it isn't at all fertile so is mostly of little use although it does grow nice grass for the kangaroos.
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
20 Jul 19
I do have 3 acres of woods that at the moment are useless.
I also own a wooded area, about a city block long that is woods in the neighborhood of the rentals, I would love to clear it and set up small houses.
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@SophiaMorros (5046)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
20 Jul 19
A little over half of our yard (2+ acres) is sloping hillside. The rest is creek bottom some of which we can't access right now because it's on the other side of a creek and it's a complete jungle over there.
@Hannihar (129342)
• Israel
21 Jul 19
@SophiaMorros
I live in an apartment building so really no yard. The picture looks interesting.
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@xFiacre (12607)
• Ireland
20 Jul 19
@sophiamorros The area under my bird feeder is aglow with bird poop. It might even be radioactive. I'd be afraid to grow vegetables there.
