Day two of the meadow-in-the-Making operations at the “L” Shaped House finds Schmitty and his JLM crew hard at work preparing the front lawn and tackling the buckthorn out back. The first photo below shows the erosion control “wattle” material ready to be installed along the bottom of the front yard.
Next … The tiller breaking up the top couple of inches of soil in the area where the meadow will be planted.
The last two photos show the area between our home and the neighbor’s as Schmitty and his crew work to remove as much of the Buckthorn as possible. The area is absolutely overgrown with this invasive species and removing it is a really big task. While most of the trees are just a few inches in diameter there are more than a dozen trees bigger than 6”.
The Cat skid-steer is the weapon of choice in this battle. Here Schmitty is preparing to ram the forks under one of the bigger plants as he “pries” it out of the ground.
A video of the action…
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