Rant...Yucca

[Junkmanme]

BrattishTaz....

What I couldn't deal with myself...I had to get my Father to fix.

Endured a LOT of "teasing".

(Not Sure which was WORSE...)

Ha-Ha !!!
-Junkmanme-

 

[BrattishTaz]

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My mother is not exactly the sensitive type either. She found way too much enjoyment in my pain.

Then made me go to school and sit on those hard plastic chairs. The woman has an evil streak in her!

 

[skybluskyblue]

What do you guys think about this info:

The Yucca schidigera plant can be found only throughout the Southwestern United States and in the central Baja California desert, where it is more abundant. The Yucca schidigera plant was widely used by Native Americans of these regions for food purposes. All parts of the plant were used, including: the fruit, seeds, seed pods, flower petals, roots and leaves. Out of the Yucca schidigera plant also came herbal teas and fermented beverages, and remedies.

Today the Yucca schidigera plant is still being as an ingredient for poultry, swine, equine, bovine and pet feeds. It is employed as a organic liquid fertilizer, soil conditioner and plant growth enhancer in agriculture, and is also utilized in the production of grain conditioner surfactant. It is also used commercially as a foaming agent in root beer, alcoholic beer, shampoos, detergents and as a food supplement for humans

The Yucca schidigera extract when added to animal feed has been shown to lower noxious ammonia gases in animal wastes, dramatically curbing dangerous and foul odors. The extract has also been found to increase animal performance by lowering ruminal, intestinal and blood ammonia levels, which result in poor performance.

yucca.com.mx/boletinen.html

maybe after digging them all out you can grind them up dry them then spread it around?

I just bought some for my dogs and it really worked in the past for their gas lol

 

[sonjab314]

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I planted wisteria because we don't have it around here

 

[Dunkopf]

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Is your avatar from a Jethro Tull album cover?

 

[mom'sfolly]

Pampas grass and red-tipped photinia (no clue if that is the right spelling) are very popular around here. They are also evil. Pampas grass must be pulled with a chain and a truck, and it may kill your transmission. Red-tipped photinia, while pretty, is planted as a shrub, when it really wants to be a bushy 20' tall tree. It is also covered with aphids in the spring, and prone to fungus. It gets planted in places suitable for small shrubs in the 4 X 4 foot range, and rapidly outgrows those parameters. It also freely suckers. I cut and sprayed for three years to get rid of the one planted by my front door.

Johnson grass, originally thought to be a great fodder, is also problematic. It comes through my fence every year, and is hard to get rid of.

None of it seems to compare to your yucca issue.

 

[KimberlyJ]

Wow! I must be really weird!!

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my wisteria...I'm training it to grow over an arbor. I about pee'd my pants when it bloomed just two flowers last year...I was told it could take 7 years to bloom. I brought trumpet vine all the way back from my mom's in Ohio the fall of 2009, it didn't bloom last year and I can barely wait for this year's blooms to attract more hummimg birds. And I begged a girl at work for yucca, she finally brought me 5 pathetic little starters last fall. I planted them around my coop. Can't wait to see if it comes back this year. I'm worried about how this new chicken addiction will affect my perrenials

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Is this the same kind of yucca I pay extra for to have added to my rabbit's food to reduce the ammonia smell of their urine? I've heard it would work for decreasing the ammonia in chicken poop, too, if added to the food. Wonder how difficult it is to extract a powder from the root.

 

[Carols Clucks]

They Yucca we HAD was the elephantipes variety. I think you would have to have something really special to chew up that trunk to make in to a usable product..... It would be more like eating a palm tree. And the roots look more like a heavy wire than anything edible.

The shoots might have had something that started out soft enough to use.