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Well, I thought I'd let you folks know what we have been doing in our spare time -- cleaning out the small creek (really, an overgrown natural drainage ditch) next to the driveway near the house. The woods were so overgrown that you could not see through them to the pasture, even though the grove was only 10 or so yards wide. Here is what it looked like on Sep 13:
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Then, after over a month of sweat and cursing green vines, etc., it now looks like this. The first picture was taken from the spot of the two "befores" above. The third picture shows two substantially sized pine trees we didn't even know were there:
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We have now started on the creek that runs through our property, on the west side of the drive toward the gate.

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Well, I thought I'd let you folks know what we have been doing in our spare time -- cleaning out the small creek (really, an overgrown natural drainage ditch) next to the driveway near the house. The woods were so overgrown that you could not see through them to the pasture, even though the grove was only 10 or so yards wide. Here is what it looked like on Sep 13:
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Then, after over a month of sweat and cursing green vines, etc., it now looks like this. The first picture was taken from the spot of the two "befores" above. The third picture shows two substantially sized pine trees we didn't even know were there:
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We have now started on the creek that runs through our property, on the west side of the drive toward the gate.

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Looks good...it should drain better now, and, you don't have to be as worried about brush 'creep'. That creep, is where trees and big brush expand their branches out, making it hard to mow close and every year, the smaller, younger underbrush takes in more and more territory.

Now comes the difficult part, keeping it that way.
You can take it from nature, but she wants it back and unlike you, she never sleeps and never tires.
Develop a good, long term plan to keep it from all growing back. If you believe it won't, leave it alone till next July and go walk out there and look at high the re-growth is.



(Tip......Next time you want to attempt a clearing project like this, it's much easier after the deciduous foliage has dropped off in the fall. )
 

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I would have to guess that you have become quite familiar now with some of the "tools of the trade" (farming, land ownership). Looks really nice with the work you've done. :clap Think how much easier it would have been without the tractor and the chainsaw/power tools etc... :hide
 

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Well, I thought I'd let you folks know what we have been doing in our spare time -- cleaning out the small creek (really, an overgrown natural drainage ditch) next to the driveway near the house. The woods were so overgrown that you could not see through them to the pasture, even though the grove was only 10 or so yards wide. Here is what it looked like on Sep 13:
View attachment 53953 View attachment 53954 .

Then, after over a month of sweat and cursing green vines, etc., it now looks like this. The first picture was taken from the spot of the two "befores" above. The third picture shows two substantially sized pine trees we didn't even know were there:
View attachment 53955 View attachment 53959 View attachment 53961

We have now started on the creek that runs through our property, on the west side of the drive toward the gate.

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NICE job, looks fantasti :clap:clap:clap:bow
 

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Thanks to all. We do plan to try to keep the growth from coming back. But what is the best way? Spraying with Roundup & Remedy? Mowing? We have a lot of areas we want to trim back, so we are slowly working each area as we go. Our current area is the creek that flows through our property. Dummy me forgot to take "before" pictures prior to starting, except for a small section:
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But once we cleared away some of the brush, we found several trees we did not know were there, growing alongside the creek. I am not sure what kind of tree they are. Could you folks help me identify them? Are they birch? Ash? White oak? Something else? They have bark on the lower end of the trunk near the ground, but it appears to peel off the higher you go. I am standing at the base of the tree in the third picture. Unfortunately I did not have @Mike CHS to stand in front of me and block my face the way he did Miss @Rammy, so you will experience the full shock effect.
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