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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What does the undergrowth of an oak hickory Forest look like? People can plant the trees, but how do you get the undergrowth?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Order a bunch of plants that are native to your region, plant the medium and shade loving varieties under the trees, see what sticks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I tried that but the groundhogs and rabbits ate the native plants down to their stems

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Get a dog, mine love chasing off groundhogs and the like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Dogs also typically love to trample the whole yard until it's nothing but clay and dandelions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Try again but with groundhog and rabbit stew.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have 20 or so acres of woods behind me. Oak, 2 types of hickory, American beech, and black cherry.

It’s just dirt. These trees have thick ass canopies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Forreal. Packed dirt later looks like... "Dirt." Then heavily compactes leaves and sticks. Then leaves. But it's mostly leaves all the way down. Nothing like trodding atop centuries of pressed organic leaves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

A forest floor shouldn't be heavily compacted, that would also lead to the leaves breaking down instead of just laying there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Given time enough sand and leaves and other organic matter deposits in the soil, decomposed by long numbers of life cycles together with dirt and moisture becomes soil, but you cannot plant everywhere trees. Imagine plant an oak in the Sahara, no chance it’ll make it after 3 hours at noon. That’s what succession suggests!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At some point, it you're assuming a single infographic is intended to be followed to the letter in every area across the planet, then that misunderstanding is your fault

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind, thanks again for your time and effort of this comment, it should have been hard to elaborate this concept.