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Clearing Overgrowth
Posted on 7/2/19 at 5:02 am
Posted on 7/2/19 at 5:02 am
I purchased a home that obviously USED to be landscaped probably 15-20 years ago with curving beds on 1.5 acre land with large areas under 50+ year old maples/cherries. I plan to keep the trees, but the undergrowth is just a random mishmash of weeds, poison ivy, and old perennials.
Can I just spray ground clear on everything, wait. Few months and start over? Will it kill the trees? I’d rather not try and dig every damn thing up.
Can I just spray ground clear on everything, wait. Few months and start over? Will it kill the trees? I’d rather not try and dig every damn thing up.
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Posted on 7/2/19 at 7:10 am to Warfox
As long as you don't get it on the leaves of the tree it will be fine.
Posted on 7/2/19 at 7:49 am to Warfox
Hack-spray-cut REPEAT
Posted on 7/2/19 at 7:57 am to Warfox
yea I would start with some manual clearing. Machete, weed eater, axe, hedge trimmer, whatever you got. Then I'd spray. Sometimes spraying big stuff won't always kill it, and when it does you're still left with debris. It's a process. You're not going to make it beautiful over night 
Posted on 7/2/19 at 8:58 am to Warfox
How tall is the undergrowth? Can you mow it down? Maybe run a disk and rake?
Posted on 7/2/19 at 9:04 am to CoachChappy
Yea I’m going to mow most of it down first, use field blade on the rest to get it down. Height is 2-3 feet. Problem is it will just come back every year so was wanting to know if I could just spray what’s left with Ground-clear as long as it doesn’t kill my trees.
Edit: the plan is to plant periwinkle/sweet woodruff under the trees shadows so I need a blank slate.
Edit: the plan is to plant periwinkle/sweet woodruff under the trees shadows so I need a blank slate.
This post was edited on 7/2/19 at 9:07 am
Posted on 7/2/19 at 6:31 pm to Warfox
Bushhog
Posted on 7/2/19 at 6:45 pm to Warfox
Beaver blade on a weed eater will chew through the toughest shite there is. You can cut 6in trees with ease. That's how I clear my shooting lanes. Takes no time to cut shite. A machete or briar hook can't match it.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:24 am to Warfox
And just know that no matter how much you spray those areas with weed killer, they will come back again between wind blown seeds and birds crapping them.
I have a fairly large vegetable garden and weeds are always going to be part of the process.
I have a fairly large vegetable garden and weeds are always going to be part of the process.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 3:23 pm to saintsfan1977
quote:
You can cut 6in trees with ease
Diameter? With a weed eater?
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