I don't do anything until memorial day weekend for environmental reasons. A lot of beneficial bugs make use of the grass in the sealy spring.

Honestly, I'm so tempted, but the thought of MORE living creatures to be responsible for right now is too much. Maybe next year.
Yea, no pesticides. Need bugs for baby to catch when he's older.

I see adds for this place all the time, I didn’t realize it was a local company!

Wow, such empty.

Seems that way. Llbean now has sizes for me where they had not. EMS is the worst

In some of the antiques malls where people rent booths, people have certain specialties, like vintage clothes, Coca Cola collectibles, postcards, etc. I hadn’t these places, and every now and then there will be a booth that has old maps (I love them too). Try places like the Fairfield Antiques Mall and the Old Chicken Barn .

Honestly, that’s never a concern for me. I have just 4 chickens. They provide more than enough protection from ticks for my 2 acres of a bit of woods and almost 1.5 acres of grass. Ticks suck, before I had those lovely ladies on my side property we had a lot. However we never sprayed pesticides because it doesn’t do anything but harm your land. I’m not on the up and up on how to destroy those little demons. But they are great feed for my chickens!

Started raking and clean up this past sat.

FUCK FOOD CROPS

IIRC, the flea market in Ellsworth had some cool maps, as well as other antiques that were pretty awesome.

I'm not requesting a new flavor I just think it's pretty neat that a random comment like this could find the person who created the design. Maine is still a very small state in some ways.

found a couple

https://mainedacf.myshopify.com/products/bedrock-geologic-map-of-maine

https://mainedacf.myshopify.com/products/surficial-geologic-map-of-main

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/publications_maps/index.shtml

Thank you so much!

wait someone above also said they produce the chips? cool

They give out free posters in front of the map library. There is usually an empty table with free stuff past five in the library. But if you want something nice looking, ll bean has some cool maps in their home goods store. Not a fan of ll bean but w/e

Gads, what an amazing store! I'm so excited to go pick some more tools up soon... It's kind of overwhelming because everything is so cool and beautiful and I want to take it all with me.

Understandable. Generally ticks like to hang out on shrubs and tall grasses (where they can jump onto people/animals that walk by). I've only encountered ticks on my property when dealing with the tall weeds that grow along the edges of the woods, never just hanging out on my lawn. They kind of like wet/shaded areas the most. So as long as long as you take precautions in areas like that you'll be fine. But it's also a good idea to get in the habit of doing a "tick check" everytime you come inside. It takes a little while for the buggers to really latch on, so routine checks are a good habit.

Thank you! I'm mostly concerned with keeping ticks of my 7 month old. I want to spend as much time outside as possible. But I also worry that finding ticks on my baby will break my poor sleep deprived mind.

Our backyard is also surrounded by woods...

Sorry on Rte 1 in Wells

I’ve bought a number of old Maine maps at Douglas Harding’ Books on Wells

tear up the lawn and plant creeping thyme.

You're saying it was an inside job?

If you’re ever in the County, Morningstar in Presque Isle has some awesome antique maps of Maine.

That's really solid advice!

depends on your lawn I would imagine. Lawns generally don't get that tall during May to be tick infested, and I mow over any leaf litter to mulch. My backyard is surrounded by woods, so I'm going to have ticks around regardless. Lawns in more suburban/urban areas are less likely to have a problem.

but yes the taller the grass the more ticks it will attract.