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Help--I have a huge mess to clean up

kestrel_3
14 years ago

I'm looking for any advice I can get to try to manage the mess on my property.

I live in MN and have between a little less than an acre lot with about half being a woodland area. There are so many issues to deal with and I don't know how to start.

1. Buckthorn--I have been dealing with this already. I've been pulling the little ones and cutting the bigger trees and then spraying the cut stump with Round-up. There is so much though. I actually have dreams at night (nightmares lol) about Buckthorn. Am I doing the right thing to most effectively get rid of this. I can see a difference but I feel like it will still take me forever to get rid of it.

2. Creeping Charlie--not sure what to do. It is all over our grass and it's creeping into our woodland area. Is spraying the only way to deal with it? There is just too much to pull by hand. It is out of control.

3. This year I noticed some other weed?? that is multiplying so quickly. It's in our woodland and yard. I don't know what it is or how to deal with it. Here is a picture...

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We have lots of bloodroot, jack in the pulpit, trillium and other things that I'm afraid of killing if I spray the weeds--but this weed is growing and moving so quickly it's going to kill them all soon anyway. It's so thick.

Sorry for being long-winded. I'm a little frustrated today.

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