On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:15:22 +0000, Danny D. wrote:
Do you have any good tricks (like the one we already have for Scotch
Broom) for removing Spanish Broom in the wet winters?
Here for the record is how I removed the scotch & spanish broom.
1. The task was to weed about an acre of these weeds:
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/11912157.jpg
2. I first got below the weed on the hillside & grasped low:
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/11912158.jpg
3. Then I pulled DOWNWARD with all my strength, always downhill:
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/11912159.jpg
4. With the ground saturated by rain, the weeds came out:
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/11912160.jpg
5. As predicted, the Spanish Broom was the hardest to pull:
http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/11912161.jpg
6. Some of the plant roots were as thick as a fat thumb:
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/11912162.jpg
7. However most of the thousand of plants pulled had thin roots:
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/11912163.jpg
8. And now the muddy hillside is devoid of the weed plants:
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/11912164.jpg