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I think if you study it closely you'll see dog fennel generally doesn't have any bugs on it except for a kind of orange fuzzy caterpillar, which I believe is the only insect that can eat it. I've also seen big grasshoppers light in it, especially when the fennel reaches its last stage of...

Just some musings on dog fennel: It gets its name because homesteaders used the green fronds to line their dog kennels to keep fleas and ticks off the dogs. The natives used it on their camp fires to repels mosquitoes. My mother said she saw her grandmother boil the root and dig a dog in it...

Those would be real mullberries then. Paper mullberries look like red spiky balls, more akin to a sweetgum.

Do the fruits of your mullberries look like blackberries or like pink or red spiky balls?

I don’t know how well this holds up where you are, but in Florida there are “real” mullberries and then there are “paper mulberries” which are something else entirely. The paper mulberries grow like weeds and constantly infest fence lines. They don’t have the fruit value that real mulberries have.

I boil the big leaves like spinach, season, and melt cheese on them. Yummy.

I’m in 8b in Florida and in horrible flatwoods sand. I used to live in rich hammock land in 9a where gardening and farming was much easier. My blueberry fields thrive in this sand but nothing else does. I’m struggling to establish large fields of pasture grass or cover crops. I’m finding no-till...

It is, but I love me some pigweed.