Yard work and gardening are not essential activities!

[Jamastiene]

90. Since I moved here,

it has been an exercise in how to control Japanese knotweed and Chinese Wisteria to keep both from coming into the house at night and choking me to death or using my living body as fertilizer to grow more, lol.

Look up what Japanese knotweed can do to a paved road, when it is still just a baby seedling, no less, or what it can do to the foundation of a BRICK house on YouTube sometime. That will give you an idea of what I am dealing with. THAT, I will still have to fight, and lose, this summer anyhow. The rest of the lawn, I'm leaving alone.

It is wild where I live. My lawn grows about a foot every week when it is warmer weather, which is about 10 months of the year here. It is full of all kinds of wild stuff. I do have to clear a path to the car at least every couple of weeks or so. Trust me. It gets really tall if I'm not careful. I'll do my path just to make sure I can get to the car. The driveway, at least, has gravel and stays pretty clear, but where I park at the end of the driveway does get wild. You would not believe what Japanese knotweed can do and what wisteria can do on such a wild property.

I loved the place because it is rough this way though. Red clay, cow killers, red imported fire ants, ground hornets, the whole nine yards. It is an exercise in letting Nature kick your ass while you see how far you can get each summer without large equipment. I have usually had help. This summer, I do not. It is going to be interesting, to say the least. At least I don't use a standard gas powered mower though. I have a special weed eater (electric), built based on plans I submitted, which really surprised me, and that is how I am going to try to handle it. Wish me luck!