Yes. I am actually going to post about the damn Yucca Plant.
We had a big ugly yucca plant in the middle of our front yard. THere was a bumble bee hive living in it which scared the piss out of me. When I was trying to dig in the general vacinity, a huge, scary buzzing would erupt from the ground. We cut back the plant and doused the whole damn thing with bee killer. We managed to kill the hive, but then we had to dig up the roots of the yucca plant.
Who knew that every tiny bit of root left behind (and that first time I left many) would sprout a new plant? So every time I saw sprouts (about four times) I tried about to just dig up all the roots. "Just" is an understatment because each week when I dug it out I would pull about 3 ten gallon buckets of roots out.
The damn thing kept growing so I decided to not only dig out the roots but ALL the dirt in the immediate vacinity. I have done that about five times now and the damn thing keeps growing.
This is currently the size of the hole.
The dirt in our yard is clay and it is VERY heavy.
Anyway, still more sprouts came up. Then I tried to dig some more and then douse the whole area in roundup. Still more sprouts.
I went to Home Depot on a mission. I finally bought a bottle of "Total Vegetation Killer" that is supposed to kill all plants for one year. By now, I am so fucking pissed at that damn plant, I don’t care if nothing ever grows there again. I also don’t care if I kill half the yard in the process.* (I should also note here, that I began the summer with an "organic yard" philosophy and a bunch of manure to back it up. Obviously that plan has gone out the window.)
I doused the whole motherfucking hole with total vegetation killer. The very next day what do I find??
I am contemplating having a guy come with a backhoe and remove about a 10 foot circle of dirt.
Did I mention that our destruction spread to the other overgrown parts of our yard? The edges of our yard are totally infested with half-dead plants and invasive ivy and other vines.
The total amount of yard waste we have generated ripping that shit out this week:
In other yard related news, my (organic) peppers and tomatoes are doing quite well, despite being totally choked in weeds.
I also have some lovely flowers (that attract even more bees, but I am trying to be positive).
And, just in case you were wondering: my couch is almost the exact same color and texture as injera (ethiopian flatbread).
* Yes, we are bringing down the neighborhood…we even have a neighbor who periodically mows our yard when we haven’t met his standards of lawn care. More power to him, because when I see that he has already mowed, I just put the lawn mower back in the garage.
A neighbor that mows your yard without permission? That’s weapon loadin’ time here in Texas.
He is a man with no boundries and he doesn’t stop at lawn mowing.
He not only mows our yard, he mows both sides of the entire street. And sometimes fertilizes it (which I stopped because my yard is so ORGANIC–HA!)
Last fall, he tarred our blacktop driveway while we were not home!
On second thought, I shouldn’t complain because he also snow-blows our driveway and sidewalk.
I wish someone would mow my lawn. Those peppers look divine.
you rock. so glad you are posting again. on a sad note, my organic tomatoes are dyng a tragic death out here in the lame new england soil.
you rock. so glad you are posting again. on a sad note, my organic tomatoes are dyng a tragic death out here in the lame new england soil.
I had yuccas that big at my last house. Our solution? Move!
I would be pissed if someone mowed my yard…maybe
Okay, you just convinced me to never ever ever plant a yucca. You should use this entry as a PSA!
If your neighbor ever wants to move, please let me know so I can send him all that our Chamber of Commerce has to offer. My standards for yard care are ridiculously low, and I don’t even try to live up to those . . . so he can mow all he likes (and weed, and repave the driveway . . .)
Why can’t he butt in on the yucca plant, though?
I can’t imagine being upset with someone for doing our yardwork. Especially if it is for free!
Lucky us, we have neighbors who will do that every once in a while too.
We had our bush from hell dug out by a professional, uh, digger outer guy. Yeah.
Anyway it took him about 5 hours (no backhoe), cost us about 400 bucks (Cdn.) and we planted a garden there a week later.
So, I can give an honest testimonial to the wonderfulness of that route.
LOL. I’m suddenly glad we don’t have a yard- I have a hard enough time remembering to water the hibiscus on the lanai if it hasn’t rained in 3-4 days.
wow. you’re like…. me. i can’t believe it. but i promise you, my yard looks waaaay worse. it’s actually just dead now. but try as i might to kill the yucca plant, i now just have ten of them in different places in my yard. those things are evil.
Now if your couch just tasted like injera, you’d be set. Or not, maybe, since then you’d eat it and have no couch.