Quack grass, Whoopgrass, Invisigrass,etc,etc.

Dwight Harley

Dwight Harley

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Anyone care to pimp their favorite raffia grass? I need to buy a few more bags to dress up the boat and the ground blind. Any comments appreciated.
 
Dave,

I talked to some guys last year at Princeton that were attaching tumbel weed to they're boat. They just walked the railroad tracks and picked it up. It looked great and they said it would last all season. It really broke up the outline not being a flat product like the grass mats.

Take care,

Ed
 
a most excellent idea for spreading Russian Thistle everywhere you go......Tumbleweed is non-native to the U.S., is higly invasive and cost MILLIONS of dollars a year to control.....using it for camo and dragging it into habitats were it doesn't already exist is a great way to make sure that there will be a steady supply of tumbleweed everywhere you go, inlcuding any dry land in the marsh, at the ramp or on the route to and from the house, thus making it possible to refresh the blind i the future withouut having tto walk a dangerous railroad track.........can't argue that it makes good camo though......

My vote is for invisa-grass.....better than all of the stuff that I bought at craft stores for durability and resistance to mold and rot, and has also lasted longer than the whoopgrass that I bought before invisagrass was available....the clumps on my branegat have stood up to multiple years of trailering over the four seasonst that it has been on the boat and the outboard cover on my big boat as shown little wear in the two years its been on the boat....

AND when you buy it you're also supporting a member of this site who has unselfishlessly answered endless vet questions, donated to the upkeep of the site, and who has hosted multiple people on hunts in Missouri....makes sense to me to support our own, and especially so when his product is better than others, (k if you wish to argue at the very least equal to those otherr products that do nothing to further this site).

Steve
 
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WOW.....I wish I had something philosophical to say but I don't! I guess if someone would have said 200 years....Hey those stupid Urkranians are trying to kill us by flooding our country side with that nasty tumble weed stuff maybe it wouldn't be EVERYWHERE from San fransisco to New York and the Pronghorn wouldn't be eating the young green sprouts and every cowboy from Audy Murphy to John Wayne would have come up with another prop for westerns and we wouldn't be haunted by the Son's of the Pioneers western swing music because they wouldn't have written the nasty song Tumbling Tumble weeds........And frankly I prefer Mallard, Teal and Widgeon over Bluebills, Buffies and Cans any day of the week.....

Ed
 
cause back when it got over here it was an accident borne of ignorance....and if we need any more evidence that we are still making those ignorant accidents we need to look no further back in history than the accidental introduction of the zebra mussle....which likely has caused the reduction in Scaup numbers even while having a potential positive influence on Cans, (and how is that for a real conundrum).....

So rest assured that your treasured folk songs and westerns would still be replete with tumbleweed, Pronghorns will still be eating inferior browse and farmers, Federal and State Governments and private industry will continue to spend millions of dollars to control the stuff....

We just need to make sure that we don't continue to make those stupid mistakes.....

Steve
 
doing some reading Ira's stuff seems to be the best of what I have read. Guess Ill be sending some Iowa $$$ to Missouri soon.

Thanks for the input steve Teal season is not far away cant believe its that time almost already again.
 
is the fact that we have no Teal season here....can you imagine that? And all they give us in September to make up for that are Doves, three Forest Grouse, Bandtailed Pigeon and if I get lucky and get dawn in Oregon Sage Grouse.....

Guess I'll just have to wait till October to get started on the ducks when our 107 day season. How unfair is that?

You won't be disappointed with Invisa-grass.....

Steve
 
Well, Invisigrass it is. Thanks for the post Steve.....and I agree, Russian thistle is nasty stuff. We used to have a beagle that was good at tracking and flushing pheasants when we lived in Oklahoma. But he would lay down with his head between his paws when we tried to get him to go into ditches choked with tumbleweed. He wanted no part of it.
 
I use Phragmites. Attach it to the boat blind and hit as many spots as I can. Just kidding.

For my sneakbox I use good ole native and natural marsh grass. Cheap and looks better than anything synthetic. We have one blind that requires natural camo (land owner doesn't want anything non natural), so we weave marsh grass through wire, takes about 2hrs and lasts ~2-3 seasons if there aren't any hurricanes.
 
in amongst the Phrags......gives the finished product more bulk for a pleasing 3D effect and ensures that you have diversity in you growing number of areas to obtain blind material.....

thanks for the laugh this morning....

Steve
 
Becuase that is the cane we used to build blinds down here on Mobile Bay.
There are appearently two subsepcies of phragmites in the US. The invasive one that is spreading havoc throughout the northern part of the country and one that is/was native to the Gulf Coast. We now appearently have both and/or a hybrid of both and you have to use genetic testing to tell them apart. So there is a big debate about whether or not we should be bothering to try to control the stuff on a large scale. In m opinion, it's to expensive to control on a landscape level anyway and we should just control it on a site by site basis.
 
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