Thats how I stopped weed wacking, getting pretty good at controling the "aim"...I visited Sedona, AZ and thought the lawns there were great, pea stone .....
When I was in my early Teens on Bainbridge Island Wa we lived in a house that had bamboo growing beside the walkway from the parking strip to the house and I had to cut that damned stuff about every two months it seemed. The house is for sale now for some ungodly price (we paid 50.00 a month rent) and I see from the photos in the add that the bamboo is gone. Another thing you don't want is Honey Locust from Costco as trees sprout from the roots as they spread and dealing with them cuts into hot rod time.
I have kudzu or something like it. I back up to state land on 2 sides and the stuff wants to take over. Some dolt also thought planting ivy was a good idea. I had 2 mulberry trees removed too, talk about a mess... birds eat the berries and go out on strafing raids... wash on the line, clean cars on the driveway...
Well spoke to my neighbor and yes bamboo grows like crazy......did first grass cut this week end,,spring has sprung...pics?
if you put bamboo in a planter along your fence line it will contain it and make a great privacy border. plant the running type not clumping type bamboo. if you plant it randomly your screwing yourself!
Well its hard to control. They got a rule that you have to keep your yard mowed here and the code Nazis will be all over your ass if you don't. lots of people have their flowers along the fence for some reason. I got another neighbor with "endangered" thistles. When I first came back from Mexico I rented a place. I didn't have a lawn mower yet but was going to get one my first payday which was two weeks away. This particular neighbor had one of those better homes and gardens yards. Anyway I am in the house a week and I get a notice 2 says or they'll mow it for me at a cost of 200 dollars. When I called about it they said that they got a tip about my yard. I borrowed a mower and found out who turned me in. Long story short I knew where there were some of these thistles growing, and cut some and sprinkled thistle seeds all over his yard. Then when they started to come up I called conservation to tell them about the thistles. they sent a guy out and sure enough they could not be cut or killed, but the guy did get a little plack to put in his yard. [/QUOTE] Good for you.What goes around comes around!!!! Bruce.
H380, My dad had a pain in the butt neighbor that kept bitching about his yard in Flordia .Late at night my dad would go over and piss on his nice grass.Guy couldn't figure why he had brown patches on his nice lawn. lol.Bruce.
tb33anda3rd, just like Kutzoo up here . It chokes everything .I am always cutting it down or spraying it .Bruce.
I have the kudzu along the back side of my fence and yucca on the yard side. Good luck to anyone coming over the fence. People uproot and throw their yucca plants out, I see them and give them a new home.
I guess I'm in the minority in that I find yard work therapeutic and as anal as I am about my car I may be even worse with my lawn and yard. There is no cure for me,it all started 50 years ago with my introduction to USMC boot camp where everything had to be "squared away" or suffer the dire consequences. Good times.
Good for you. I almost got caught digging up yucca in the Sequoia National Forest once. I have always been a big fan of Yucca, who knows why. I was only going to take one or two from this field full of 'em. my buddy in the van honked and I saw this state cop come around the bend, so I jerked my britches down and when the cop stopped and honked at me I jumped up and pulled them up. he hollered on his PA, "there is a rest room a mile up the road" and drove on. I got vines all over here it is a never ending battle and if your neighbor doesn't kill 'em they keep coming back. They will destroy a fence, and they are compounded by Poison Ivy. I am not bothered by Poison Ivy but it makes the missus really sick. I get 2-4-D from the farmers up north, they can have it even though it has been outlawed for over 40 years. Kills the hell out of the vines on my fence.
That is really cool, lots of other details aside from the cars in that picture. To me it looks like an old water mill and bridge.
UOTE="59Apachegail, post: 11436963, member: 149684"]That is really cool, lots of other details aside from the cars in that picture. To me it looks like an old water mill and bridge.[/QUOTE] Actually a cold storage building on the Ho-Jack railway, built 1881
My Grandpa was an overseer on a huge sugarcane farm. When I was a kid I saw enormous live oaks die in 2 weeks just from wind and overspray. Rock salt and salt water also works. Just ask the Carthagens.
My old lady didn't want to waste money taking down a rotten oak tree in front of the house. Doy. BUT we did have a backup unit. Just another Saab story-BooHoo.
Dang, I've been mowing lawns, and doing yard work since I was 9 years old, and it's long overdue for me to stop. But, you have a yard, and it's got to be at least well kept. My plan this summer is to "gravel" the small front yard, after a couple layers of plastic sheeting goes down first. The far back yard, across the "drainage easement, AKA ditch, is English Ivy; I'd like to uproot all that stuff and send it back to England. The neighbor behind us planted it to shore up the bank to prevent erosion, but it's our property; there's a longer story there, but I did't kick about it just to keep the peace. Actually, the last 5 feet is city property, but the city does't even know it. We bought when it was county, and the developer put the road in 5 feet off center; all the houses across the street have 5 feet less to their back yards, and everyone one my side has 5 feet more. We're not taxed on it, like I said, the city is't aware I don't think; what are they going to do with 85 feet X 5 feet that involves 5 houses that they have no real access to? Make a spaghetti farm? Most of the neighbors could't care less about their yards however, and it shows. Less yard work, more car work; at least that's the long range plan. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
Yucca is cool stuff. If you look under them in the spring, some of them have "pups" that you can move and plant elsewhere. The trick to keeping them healthy is pulling out the dead spikes from the bottom, wear gloves! Ivy... I have it all along my side fence and it has destroyed 75' of stockade fence on me. I just chop it back, I don't like using harsh chemicals. I also re-upped with my lawn service, I come home and the yard looks mint. All I do is take care of the pool and whatever I plant for annuals.
I've mowed lawns since I was 8 or 9 years old. I actually like mowing the lawn...that is the easy part. I hate the weeding, edging and cleanup. My wife bugged for years to get a service because it took so long to do. I finally did as long as they did EVERYTHING, not just mow and blow. I really don't miss it. More time to cruise or work on car.
Your idea works well: but here's a trick. The healthier the plant you want to kill the faster it dies. Put a little liquid fertilizer in the spray poison. The plant absorbs it a lot quicker. (Think sweet punch and grain alcohol.) The other trick is to put a couple drops of liquid soap in the sprayer, it is a surfactant that makes the spray spread out and stick on waterproof leaves better. Last trick: For those really, really tough plants to kill, use the acidic liquid drain opener. Follow up later with some lime to re-neutralize the soil around all the dead branches. This last option might be illegal, don't know. I have used it to keep english ivy at bay.
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