Progress has been steady.
We hacked through the central part of the “jungle” on the slope.
We went after significant patches of Phragmites.
The Knotweed was soon to suffer a similar fate.
Planting anything was still inconceivable, yet, something had to take the place of all those invasives!
Steve has cut and piled many stalks of knotweed. Then, into the small portion of its stem remaining in the ground, he carefully injected a very small amount of herbicide. Knotweed is hollow, like bamboo, so this is the best time of year to do this, when the plant is drawing energy down into its roots.
We had made progress. Two years earlier (it would have been less, without our huge renovation and septic replacement), this is what it had looked like:
