Because sometimes what you remove, is as important as what you add. Today, I took out a stand of several dozen non-native, invasive fountain grass. Fortunately, this plant has relatively shallow roots, so it wasn't terribly hard to dig up. The roots do hold onto the soil, but I was able to free most of it using a hand cultivator. The entire job took an hour, at most. Significant stands of this grass remain in the area where I am working. I'll be digging it up as time permits.
How will you dispose of it?
I've been told that the landfill would be the most appropriate place- as opposed to recycling as yard waste.
You can process invasive weeds to compost it. You can drown and rot it (macerate) by placing it in a bucket of water until its destroyed (this is basically compost tea), or dessicate it by letting it completely dry out, by hanging it up high or laying it out on hot concrete. For the grass, since its seed is probably hard dessicate, i'd rot it in a jug and then dump the tea out wherever.
An interesting approach, but I'm not sure it's practical for me to do at this scale. I pulled several dozen plants today alone, and there are probably several hundred more that remain. That's a lot of buckets, a lot of water, and a lot of rotting grass.
Depends on area, but usually easy to find old drums on marketplace cheap or free. Use the compost tea to fertilize newly developed guerrilla spots. That’s one loop you can tighten up.
Heck ya! Removing invasives is critical! I'll be doing some guerrilla removal in the spring with some Japanese stiltgrass around my town. And hitting some tree of heaven in the summer.
I love removing invasives. Just make sure you ID twice! There's some lookalikes out there.
Big fan of pulling up foxtails wherever I find them.
Good job! It's nice to see people doing the hard work we should all be doing and/or supporting.
Ayo! Thanks for keeping this sub alive fam. I see all the hard work and effort you've made planting natives and just want to show some appreciation. You're a guerilla gardening soldier! Much love