Spent the day pulling honeysuckle vines out of a homesteader client’s back fence. I turned a perfectly good set of pruning shears into beaters pulling all that stuff out, but this guy was just extra in every way

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    6 months ago

    i know it’s crazy but at the bottom of the vine, in my viewer, it looks like there is a red dog with a black and white muzzle peeking in through the fence

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    6 months ago

    You are lucky they are still small. Mine were so overgrown. 3+ in diameter stalks. 2ft coiled root balls of 6 or more plants. 12 of these setups in a row standing 20ft high. I dug out a 40ft x 5ft x 2ft portion of my lawn just to remove all the roots and reuse the space.

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      6 months ago

      Lol, yeah, they had been trimming them, but leaving the vines in the fence for years. I had to go ham like that on some crepe myrtle the previous owners put in my yard. I had been trying to kill them with other methods for a few years but they just kept coming back, so I went at em with a shovel, my beater axe, and a tamping bar. I’m still finding shoots from runners I missed