n English gardener, who takes a lot of photos, visits many places, listens to lots of music, reads a lot of books, who has wandered the earth but is currently dug in in Sacramento, California. On this blog: gardening and wildlife. Life in Northern California, and an archive of postings from Long Island's southern shore, amid the wetlands... restoring house and garden. And the most beautiful sunrises...
Friday, May 22, 2009
Virginia creeper, climbing creepily
It will take over the world. That and the poison ivy (already staking a claim on the neighbourhood), the smilax? mile-a-minute weed (now I am confused about which it really is... let's stick to "that nasty green fast-growing barbed wire").
Get a hedgetrimmer and trim through them close to the ground. Then they die, go brown, fall down and make more good earth. If it's the nasty barbed wire stuff it does grow back but not quite as fast.... it will kill trees if not controlled, nasty stuff.
It will take over the world. That and the poison ivy (already staking a claim on the neighbourhood), the smilax? mile-a-minute weed (now I am confused about which it really is... let's stick to "that nasty green fast-growing barbed wire").
the vine weeds I have growing in the empty lot behind my house is out of control
ReplyDeleteGet a hedgetrimmer and trim through them close to the ground. Then they die, go brown, fall down and make more good earth. If it's the nasty barbed wire stuff it does grow back but not quite as fast.... it will kill trees if not controlled, nasty stuff.
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