Well, to be honest, we’ve haven’t focused much on the landscaping until this year. So we’ve cut it back from the fence but hadn’t really tried to kill it until now. But it does seem pretty aggressive.
My stump and vine killer is the triclopyr you mentioned, so that’s good.
Maybe worth pointing out we basically have every invasive species in the state growing in our yard. Honeysuckle, which we’ve killed and dug up the roots. English ivy, the biggest stand of this had about a 2" root, it was mature. Some other kind of ivy, it doesn’t seem too aggressive but it needs to go. And then we have something that reminds me of the bind weed we had in Colorado, also a little less aggressive.
I expect to fight all of this for a while, but this year we are getting pretty aggressive. My neighbor and I went in halfsies on a tiller, lol.
All right, I’m leaning in hard on this, I’ve gotten all of the larger ones cut out and painted. I started in on the smaller ones, the only tricky spots are where we have lilies and it’s hard to find all of the stupid vines. We must have something like 200+ lily plants, the plan is to transplant what we want to keep, give away the rest, and put in grass there. We have plenty of flower beds, trying to reduce maintenance here.
I’d say in 2-3 weeks we’ll be ready to till, hopefully that will stun them. And then put down cardboard, or maybe weed fabric in one area if we decide we just want to mulch that.
And some, I assume, are good plants?
Just had a door to door salesman ring my doorbell. No, I can’t ignore it because the dog will go nuts as long as someone is out there. I’m guessing there must be some success rate as people still do this, but I don’t buy from those folks ever. This particular guy was selling extermination service.
Ever buy anything from someone that showed up randomly at your front door?
Girl Scout cookies?
I just changed from cable internet to fiber as a result of two unsolicited visits.
I had been interested for a while, but with a nontraditional property situation I had procrastinated in anticipation of it being a more-expensive-than-it’d-be-worth installation.
So, when a sales team canvassed the neighborhood at a time when the cable network had been experiencing hardware issues in the neighborhood, I asked and…
Had my son do this for Boy Scouts sales (not popcorn). His troop does an annual Veteran’s Day Breakfast (pancakes/sausage) that isn’t widely known.
He would generally do all right; get about a 2 in 11 sales success. A very good exercise to learn that “disappointment” is a part of life that we all experience and that it’s not the “end-of-the-world”.
I have a “No Solicitation” sign up to prevent this. I’ve only had 1 person show up since I did it; their position was “I’m not soliciting, I’m just trying to find people who might want to take advantage of the service I’m trying to provide.”
After my response to that, I don’t think he’ll ever come near my area again.
We also had a guy knock on our door yesterday for extermination service (maybe same guy?) and our dog also went crazy. He offered to do it much cheaper than usual as he was already in the neighborhood. We already have another exterminator lined up but I don’t blame him trying to save making extra trips.
Another time we had a guy knock on our door to tell us that our regular tree-lopping guy, his boss, had just died (not sure how) and that he was going around to his customers to see if they wanted to go with him since he was starting a new company.
Do signs like that have any legal effect in your town/county/state?
Also did fiber internet when the guy came to the door. Was already ready to switch, was just waiting for the rollout.
Otherwise I don’t talk to solicitors except to tell them them to go away.
It’s not illegal per se to attempt to solicit at a residence or place of business that has a “no soliciting” type sign up. However, I’ve seen case law here that if you attempt to solicit anything of value at such a location and are informed of the notice, any future visits by that individual or legal entity can be considered trespassing - but it’s still likely that the police just say “quit going there” rather than write a ticket.
That dog looks too friendly. Needs to be growling or something.
