Controlling the Jungle

This house was definitely a fixer-upper type purchase, but wow was the yard out of control. The picture to the right only shows one aspect of this, which is the overgrown trees being dominated in morning glory ivy. It was blocking 25% of the patio, so it all had to go. So I got myself some power tools to get after it.

 
There were four trees that needed to be cut down and Michael Tall and I attacked a couple of them. He came over to help "get the yard under control" but then he grabbed my chain saw and was like, "let's cut down this tree." It seemed aggressive at the time but it started the process that has made a world of difference already.

When we were done with the first batch of trees, we had quite the large mass of tree debris to deal with. We cut most of it up and took it to the dump to recycle. Turns out if the greenery comes from your own yard and you live in San Diego county, you can drop it at their greenery recycling center for free! By the end of it we had made a huge change just by cutting down two trees.




I cut down the other trees myself, which maybe was not the smartest move. The two trees were attached to each other by morning glory vines, so when I cut down one and it went timber, it held and actually swung above me. The vines snapped and it fill on my back. Sounds worse than it was, I just had to get out of the squat in order to get the tree off. Not ideal.