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
Comment on succession
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What does the undergrowth of an oak hickory Forest look like? People can plant the trees, but how do you get the undergrowth?
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
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.
A forest floor shouldn’t be heavily compacted, that would also lead to the leaves breaking down instead of just laying there.
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!
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
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.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Order a bunch of plants that are native to your region, plant the medium and shade loving varieties under the trees, see what sticks
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I tried that but the groundhogs and rabbits ate the native plants down to their stems
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Get a dog, mine live chasing off groundhogs and the like.
harmsy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dogs also typically love to trample the whole yard until it’s nothing but clay and dandelions.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Try again but with groundhog and rabbit stew.