➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

Need some practical gardening advice.
I can’t afford to fill my front gardenbed with plants right now, so I’m settling for weeding and doing a good mulch job for the summer. The problem is these damn fern things that are thriving in the front. There’s two planted at the back but they’re much smaller.
These things are needle sharp and make me bleed every time they stab me, and yes I do wear gloves.
I HATE everything about them so I’m getting rid of them already.

Question: how do I get rid of very large and very sharp demon plants by myself? I can’t just reach under them to get to the base. Do I attack it with a shovel, leaving a giant crater in front of my house?

I’m seriously considering duct taping one up and seeing if I can rip it out by hand (at the risk of being the laughing stock of my neighbors).

Shovel it out.

 

[Sara L]

Need some practical gardening advice.
I can’t afford to fill my front gardenbed with plants right now, so I’m settling for weeding and doing a good mulch job for the summer. The problem is these damn fern things that are thriving in the front. There’s two planted at the back but they’re much smaller.
These things are needle sharp and make me bleed every time they stab me, and yes I do wear gloves.
I HATE everything about them so I’m getting rid of them already.

Question: how do I get rid of very large and very sharp demon plants by myself? I can’t just reach under them to get to the base. Do I attack it with a shovel, leaving a giant crater in front of my house?

I’m seriously considering duct taping one up and seeing if I can rip it out by hand (at the risk of being the laughing stock of my neighbors).

I'm assuming you don't want to keep the demon plants alive? Shovel up plant so it is loose in crater. Stab with pitchfork or rake so you can pull slightly out of crater onto it's side. Whack the root ball with shovel to make most of the dirt fall back into the crater. Then using pitchfork/rake move the demon plant into garbage can/compost/burn pile. Then go back with gloves and rake and go through the dirt to get any root pieces that may have remained.

 

[Molpet]

Need some practical gardening advice.
I can’t afford to fill my front gardenbed with plants right now, so I’m settling for weeding and doing a good mulch job for the summer. The problem is these damn fern things that are thriving in the front. There’s two planted at the back but they’re much smaller.
These things are needle sharp and make me bleed every time they stab me, and yes I do wear gloves.
I HATE everything about them so I’m getting rid of them already.

Question: how do I get rid of very large and very sharp demon plants by myself? I can’t just reach under them to get to the base. Do I attack it with a shovel, leaving a giant crater in front of my house?

I’m seriously considering duct taping one up and seeing if I can rip it out by hand (at the risk of being the laughing stock of my neighbors).

it's a yucca
will come back from the roots

 

[NanaKat]

Can you take a picture of this.
I don't know what it is.

Sure...we have a panel across the corner to keep the cows off the hive.

Close up you can see the deeper hive bodies are on the lower part....the bees build their "nest" there for the brood eggs. The queen lays her eggs in the empty combs and the workers tend the larvae. A bee lives about six weeks do a lot of replacements must grow to keep the hive healthy. The hive bodies will be filled with honey for the bees to survive on as fall and winter hits.
The supers are the smaller sections on top. Those are for harvesting in the fall next year. We have a plastic grid sheet we will slide in to "exclude" the queen from moving up to the supers to lay eggs. The worker bees can pass thru the grid to fill the comb.

 

[Tesumph]

Trying to garden without proper gardening equipment is a nightmare and I’m an idiot.

 

[NanaKat]

Need some practical gardening advice.
I can’t afford to fill my front gardenbed with plants right now, so I’m settling for weeding and doing a good mulch job for the summer. The problem is these damn fern things that are thriving in the front. There’s two planted at the back but they’re much smaller.
These things are needle sharp and make me bleed every time they stab me, and yes I do wear gloves.
I HATE everything about them so I’m getting rid of them already.

Question: how do I get rid of very large and very sharp demon plants by myself? I can’t just reach under them to get to the base. Do I attack it with a shovel, leaving a giant crater in front of my house?

I’m seriously considering duct taping one up and seeing if I can rip it out by hand (at the risk of being the laughing stock of my neighbors).

it's a yucca
will come back from the roots

Yes, it is a yucca. Each leaf is like a knife blade.
You won't be able to pull it out of the ground without some preparation.
Use a sharp shooter (a long slender bladed shovel) to cut thru the outer roots. Duct tape can help bind the leaves up. Wrap a chain around the lower "trunk" and pull it out with a tractor or truck. Then after combing out the roots, any new pups can be removed or sprayed with a glycosphate Like Roundup. The adult plants are hard to kill with a weed killer.
The plants in front may be perennial prairie bells (colloquial name). They are the white and pink petaled blooms on the right.

Do you like iris and day lilies? Pm me.

 

[Kiki]

Trying to garden without proper gardening equipment is a nightmare and I’m an idiot.

Go knock on the neighbor's door and see if they have some stuff you can borrow.

 

[Tesumph]

Yes, it is a yucca. Each leaf is like a knife blade.
You won't be able to pull it out of the ground without some preparation.
Use a sharp shooter (a long slender bladed shovel) to cut thru the outer roots. Duct tape can help bind the leaves up. Wrap a chain around the lower "trunk" and pull it out with a tractor or truck. Then after combing out the roots, any new pups can be removed or sprayed with a glycosphate Like Roundup. The adult plants are hard to kill with a weed killer.
The plants in front may be perennial prairie bells (colloquial name). They are the white and pink petaled blooms on the right.
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Do you like iris and day lilies? Pm me.

Thanks for the help all. I’m going to have to save up for a proper shovel and rake, at the very least.
I tied one up with a rope and realized that it was all one huge connected plant with several mature offshoots.

Regardless, I’m done for today. My arms look like they’ve been through a woodchipper. Stupid plant.

Go knock on the neighbor's door and see if they have some stuff you can borrow.

I texted her but she didn’t reply. If she has some kind of limb cutter then I can at least try and cut them off and shovel the roots up later.

 

[debid]

Need some practical gardening advice.
I can’t afford to fill my front gardenbed with plants right now, so I’m settling for weeding and doing a good mulch job for the summer. The problem is these damn fern things that are thriving in the front. There’s two planted at the back but they’re much smaller.
These things are needle sharp and make me bleed every time they stab me, and yes I do wear gloves.
I HATE everything about them so I’m getting rid of them already.

Question: how do I get rid of very large and very sharp demon plants by myself? I can’t just reach under them to get to the base. Do I attack it with a shovel, leaving a giant crater in front of my house?

I’m seriously considering duct taping one up and seeing if I can rip it out by hand (at the risk of being the laughing stock of my neighbors).

https://www.google.com/search?q=yuc...droid-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

We leave them alone, they grow wild in the field and the flower stalks are pretty cool. I'm going to worry less about hitting them with the mower now, though! They're apparently bulletproof.

 

[R2elk]

Need some practical gardening advice.
I can’t afford to fill my front gardenbed with plants right now, so I’m settling for weeding and doing a good mulch job for the summer. The problem is these damn fern things that are thriving in the front. There’s two planted at the back but they’re much smaller.
These things are needle sharp and make me bleed every time they stab me, and yes I do wear gloves.
I HATE everything about them so I’m getting rid of them already.

Question: how do I get rid of very large and very sharp demon plants by myself? I can’t just reach under them to get to the base. Do I attack it with a shovel, leaving a giant crater in front of my house?

I’m seriously considering duct taping one up and seeing if I can rip it out by hand (at the risk of being the laughing stock of my neighbors).

You have Yuccas. You can kill them by drowning them. They cannot tolerate lots of water. They have taproots that go very deep. I dug out one because it was in the way of where my waterline was going. Its roots were 8' deep and still going. Fortunately I got enough of the root that it did not come back.