We devoted a week’s worth of time and energy to ridding our backyard of wisteria. I posted a picture about ten days back of the mother plant. It had wrapped around an oak tree and grown to the top of it where blossomed each Spring, so high up we couldn’t even appreciate it. And then it would grow those big brown seed pods that would fall, pop open and sprout new plants all over including our neighbor’s yard. That was the real motivator here. The plant is invasive and it had invaded his yard.
We cut the towering plant at the base and then started tearing out the runners (shown above) which were thirty feet long in some cases. They would send down roots every sixteen inches or so and maybe very other time they would send up more shoots as well so they were really tough to pull out of the ground. We are sore all over.
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