Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant

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jcliburn

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I am at war.

I have a house on 50 acres of woodland in south Mississippi, and aside from my yard and driveway, I can't walk 30 feet without encountering yaupon holly -- sometimes a LOT of it. It's evergreen and produces attractive red berries in winter that birds love. I've read this feature makes it a desirable Christmas plant. If that's the case I want everybody to come to my house and take as much of the cr@p as they can cart away.

Yaupon holly is a native species, but lord amighty it's aggressive! It forms dense thickets and grows upwards of 20 feet tall, then pretty much the whole thicket starts bending over, taking with it whatever young trees happen to be unlucky enough to be competing with it in the same area. In presettlement times it was managed by wildfires. Now it's just gone berserk.

Foliar applications of glyphosate make it sick, but never completely kill it. I uproot as much as I can with my grapple, and I chainsaw the rest (pole saw, actually) and saturate the fresh stump with 41% glyphosate. I'm guaranteed to look like I've been in a fight with 57 cats at the end of a day battling the stuff; the limbs are tough and my skin is no match for it.

When I die, I'm pretty sure they'll find me in the woods where I fell, with a bent 20-footer in my cold hands, somewhere between a yaupon thicket and Yet Another brush pile.

At least I'll have died fighting. :thumbsup:
 

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   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant #2  
Could be worse, it could have 1'' long thorns.
 
   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant #3  
Just saw the movie apocalypse holly. Get on your radio call sign almighty. They will come in and carpet bomb it All away. Good luck. Lol
 
   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant #4  
I have tons of Youpon Holly in E. Texas. I turned the goats in on it. They love Youpon. They keep the leaves eaten off until plant dies. Just take while but much easier than cutting or digging. Good luck and keep us posted.
 
   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant
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Carpet bombing with incendiaries would give me great pleasure to see.

jveretto, unfortunately I don't have a suitable fence for goats, but that's how my Dad manages his jungle, too (including kudzu).
 
   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant #6  
We make a good living mulching that stuff up. It mulches very easy, but doesn't die. Most of our customers apply a herbicide when it begins to come back, but the rootballs do pluck out pretty easy.
 
   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant #7  
FWIW, mixing Grazon with the glyphosate-N seems to give a better kill. Mix both chemicals at the recommended rate. (just like you were using them separately)
 
   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant #8  
brush cat on a skidsteer with tracks and a cab..rented mine for 400 bucks for a weekend..cleared alotta myrtles.... in air cond..in the rain..with the stereo blasting....turned em to mulch bascally
 
   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant #9  
Why not go into business and sell it for Christmas wreaths, etc.? :D
 
   / Yaupon must die; all else is irrelevant #10  
Hi, this might be a sign of " Blessing In Disguise " :thumbsup:

Here is what I would do :)

1. Get those empty big cheap flower pot, maybe 5 LOL:D

2. Dig small bush, maybe 2'-3' and put them in there.

3. Make it look pretty, take some pix and post them on Craigslist or Ebay or even a Tree Nursery at half price of what people selling them for, or call the Nursery for a list price., then price it half off, LOL

4. Sell them for money $$$$$$ = " Ble$$ing in Di$gui$e ". Even if you get to sell them for cheap. It's still a " Ble$$ing in Di$gui$e ".

5. My only problem, if this is gonna get you extra $$$$$$, the trees will stop growing, LMAO.

If all fails, look into other suggestions in this thread. Kyle241 got another idea, $ee :licking:

P.S. I wish I live close to you, I would use it toward my advantage. You can't beat Nature, but you can use Nature toward your advantage!:thumbsup:

P.S.S. If you get rich, I want my Commi$$ion$!
 

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