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#1 Sep 01 2014 at 5:56 PM Rating: Good
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Now that I have my Kubota, I've been finally doing my yard work. I hope to have a lot of the ground cleaned and leveled off ready to finally get grass.

While I've been doing it I've been cleaning up the brush and weeds growing around the edges of the yard.

There is a vine strangling a lot of the trees around the yard. It's grown like crazy in a few spots. Including near the end of my driveway where there is a lot of pine trees. This one spot has it growing over almost every pine tree and other plant in a 20' x 20' area. I had one growing in my back yard, but I cut those trees down and just tore everything up and have it in a pile ready to burn once the snow hits the ground.

How would I go about clearing out the vine from the trees I don't want to tear down? Those pine trees provide a nice privacy hedge for my drive way, I'd rather not have to tear them out and plant new ones.
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#2 Sep 01 2014 at 6:03 PM Rating: Good
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Is that kudzu?

Get a couple of goats.
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#3 Sep 01 2014 at 6:08 PM Rating: Good
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Friar Bijou wrote:
Is that kudzu?

No idea. Peeling it off the the tree branches has been hard. It wraps itself pretty tightly around everything. Not exactly a hard plant, feels woody, but almost hollow, cracks and breaks easily. The roots don't seem to grow very deep, pretty spread out but shallow, the few plants I did pull up this afternoon were pretty easy. Then again the soil here is pretty much 100% sand so it's not hard to pull things up.

Can't wait til the snow hits the ground and I can burn this pile of brush I have from the summer. That will be fun.

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The worst part though, is the Sumac growing in the background of that image. That **** smells horrible, and the stuff there on the edges of my drive way was left alone to grow for a while, so it's very tall and very thick. I'll have to dig them out, not looking forward to that.

It might not actually be Sumac, but something that looks a lot like it. Internet searches say it's some invasive Asian species. This stuff.

Edited, Sep 1st 2014 8:32pm by TirithRR
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#4 Sep 02 2014 at 7:45 AM Rating: Excellent
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You wouldn't have to worry about invasive plantlife if you took my advice and dug a moat.

Edited, Sep 2nd 2014 9:46am by lolgaxe
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#5 Sep 02 2014 at 8:16 AM Rating: Good
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We ended up burning brush this weekend. Wasn't really what I had planned but it's nice to have that big old pile burned down to manageable levels.

Good luck with the vines. I'd suggest just hacking at the roots a few times, but there are herbicides that you can use that will supposedly target the vine. I know people around here use something chemically for poison ivy that seems pretty harmless to the trees.

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#6 Sep 02 2014 at 2:13 PM Rating: Good
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Clip roots, wait for leaves to die, pull off stringy branchy stuff.
#7 Sep 06 2014 at 8:48 AM Rating: Good
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I have to rip the hedges out at my mother's house. I'm not really looking forward to it, but supposedly they come out fairly easily. Dig around it, push it forward, clip the taproot. We'll see.
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Or just set it on fire.
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#9 Oct 24 2014 at 5:04 PM Rating: Good
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Two days ago, I left for work in the morning and all was normal. Then I come home, and my neighbors house is gone. Just... an empty lot.

The owner had been gone for some time, apparently turns out she had a heart attack and is now living in the next town over. They bulldozed the house. I let her know I was interested in buying the land.

But while I was over there looking at things, I noticed something. These invasive Asian Sumac-like trees, Tree of Heaven. That picture is by my drive way, and her house is (was) just on the other side of those trees. I was curious about the Tree of Heaven, so I was looking around. Behind it I found what must be the source of all the suckers popping up by my driveway. I walked through her yard and noticed another field of suckers. And then I noticed a large tree. I didn't think much of it because there are many large trees in the area, including a large beech tree just a short distance from it. But I happened to glance up, and noticed the leaves. There were not many left, but the few that were left were obvious.

I think I found the source. Now I have to kill it. Unfortunately the tree is not on my property. I'm about 90% sure I'm going to get the land. She's a nice lady, and I've got along with her over the years (and my parents when I was younger). But I don't feel right killing it until I own it.

Now I have to play on how to kill this thing. Watching some videos on it.





Very smelly trees. Can't wait to kill it, and hopefully when I do all the suckers die off too.

Edited, Oct 24th 2014 7:04pm by TirithRR
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#10 Oct 29 2014 at 1:41 PM Rating: Good
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This sounds like something you'd pay your gardener to do.
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#11 Oct 29 2014 at 5:22 PM Rating: Good
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PunkFloyd, King of Bards wrote:
This sounds like something you'd pay your gardener to do.


I don't pay people to do stuff for me most of the time.
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