{"id":351,"date":"2017-03-15T11:31:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:57:10","slug":"project-kudzu-to-apple-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/project-kudzu-to-apple-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Project: Kudzu to Apple Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I bought the log cabin, the yard was completely full of thorns and kudzu. The first year, I started clearing it myself. It grew faster than I could cut it. I was covered in cuts and scratches. And it still looked as bad as when I had started.<\/p>\n

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Project Small House: Clearing the Back Yard
Before & After – Kudzu to Apple Trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second year I hired help before it could start to grow back in the spring. Some things you just cannot do by yourself.<\/p>\n

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Work in Progress, Clearing Kudzu and Briars behind Meadowbrook Cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We got all of the underbrush gone, but were left with dozens of trees that had been killed by the kudzu.<\/p>\n

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Work in Progress: The brook was full of litter and snags, even an old telephone pole and pallets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Work in Progress, Clearing Kudzu and Briars behind Meadowbrook Cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Work in Progress, Clearing Kudzu and Briars behind Meadowbrook Cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Work in Progress, Clearing Kudzu and Briars behind Meadowbrook Cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We put down grass seed.<\/p>\n

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Work in Progress, Clearing Kudzu and Briars behind Meadowbrook Cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Project<\/a>
Work in Progress, Clearing Kudzu and Briars behind Meadowbrook Cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I hired a tree service to take out the dead trees from all around the property and grind the stumps.<\/p>\n