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A couple years ago I managed to slay a bamboo clump by hacking it to the ground and then building a three day fire on it.
But today's project wasn't quite so dramatic. There's a nice rhody bush that is being slowly strangled by morning glory and shaded out by a volunteer sapling of I think alder. So I worked my way around it with the pole lopper and pruning shears. I didn't get all the way to the top but now there is a whole lot more rhody showing and it should grow well this summer.
Then I got medieval with the blackberries again. I'm not worried about a crop of berries this year so it was take no prisoners. I made a dent but it still blankets the corner of the fence. All that got lopped up and stacked on the compost pile. Tomorrow I can mow the lawn and have around 50 gallons of grass clippings to go on top. I'm hoping that will wake up Audrey the hot compost heap again. So far she's hanging around 20 degrees warmer than ambient. I still need to trim a few tree branches out front that are overhanging the road enough to smooch the UPS truck on the way by. My goal is to have all the burnables cleaned up and outta here by the 4th of July.
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