The trip up and back was smooth.
Momma D’s garden on the other hand... not really a garden... it’s an overgrown back yard. Bush honeysuckle, bamboo, mint, iris, and who knows what all else.
No way to get on it with the tractor and tiller. Too many roots and vines to use the walk-behind tiller.
I told her that I could see three options - chemical poison (nope) or grind to nothing with a skid steer/brush flail (nope) or find a Boy Scout troop/4H club/etc. to come chop it out by hand. She liked option 3 so we’ll see what comes next. I volunteered to show up with a trailer to haul off the waste if she can find the muscle to do the cleanup.
You can remove it, but it will probably take years to actually control it. I am still pulling up japanese honeysuckle from 10 years ago.
Well, you tried!
The Boy Scouts clean up/bag Mom’s leaves in the fall. She has three enormous Maple Trees in her yard and they can really put out the leaves!
And then one of her tree-less neighbors takes most of the bags and uses them on the Community Garden beds. Everybody wins. :)