>>20103628The only time I'm not spraying roundup is if I'm spraying triclopyr lol. But seriously in some places you just have to spray. Fence rows firebreaks etc.
And look I sympathize with people that want to be all natural. If you have a small area to deal with then you can do that, but over a big area- you have to spray or it will devour your fences etc. I love native plants and I actually live in the woods. Just this year to my yard I've transplanted a few native hickories, native Magnolia, Red Bay, Chickasaw Plums, dogwoods, southern sugar Maples, swamp chestnut oaks, ash, winged elm, black gums, Willow Oak, farkleberry, mayhaws, northern spider lily, atamasco lily, and this has been a light year for transplanting.
My rationale on keeping grounds is you have three zones. 1. Your immediate yard. Here you keep a manicured grass lawn, some beds with native flowers, native flowering shrubs, and native specimen trees. 2. The liminal area between you and the woods. In this area you let the native grasses and wildflowers grow but you have to mow it back with the tractor every so often and you have to spray the fence rows here. 3. The woods. Here you just let it go all natural and burn it every few years but you do have to mow, disc, and spray back your firebreaks through it.
The point is that the yard is for your living area. You keep manicured grass and landscaping. Boomers are right about the lawn here. The problem is that boomer women landscaped and they used the same non-natives and had no sensibility for native trees. So all the trees etc. are jap Magnolia and Japanese maple kek. Anyways, I just got out of the woods picking a big bag of dewberries. The black berries are going to be loaded this year.
