Does anyone know of a safe mixture to kill Palmetto Bushes?

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Shovel digging is not an option for my back. Brain aspirations are younger than body capability or purse, it seems. Thank you.

-- New Neighbor (carobbs1@bellsouth.net), April 14, 2000

Answers

Hi New Neighbor! Wanted to know that one too so I searched the net but no luck. Maybe someone else will have an idea. Sorry about your back, that must be miserable!...Kirk

-- Kirk Davis (kirkay@yahoo.com), April 15, 2000.

Not sure how deep the roots go on those, but I manage to kill off stubborn weeds in Ohio by pouring boiling water on them. Maybe if you armor up, prune the leaves back enough to get to the crown, and dump on a big potful?

-- Connie (connie@lunehaven.com), April 16, 2000.

Where I grew up in central Florida we had lots of palmetto. My daddy loosened the sand around them and threw a chain as tight as he could get it around the roots and pulled them up with a tractor. Peggy

-- Peggy (wclpc@cookeville.com), April 17, 2000.

I moved here to WV last Sept and am now learning how to deal with the problems here and hope to meet some new neighbors on this site to help me do so.

But Palmettos! I did basically the same thing as the other person said, only I used a four wheel drive pickup truck and chain around my trailer hitch. Don't make the same mistake I did though, the first time I tried, I thought with my 460c.i. Ford engine and granny gear and four wheel drive, I can probably pull out about 5 or 6 of them at a time. To say the least, I was WRONG!!! I bent the hitch down at an angle and had to get a neighbor with a cutting torch to heat it up so we could bend it back into shape. The most I was able to pull out at a time was two small ones or one large one, but it did work. I did this for a friend in the Orlando area about two years ago. He is now trying to sell so he can move to the place he found in NC. He and family are all tired of the rat race.

We've owned this land free and clear since 1977 and finally moved up to it. I spent 23 years in the USMC and retired to MT, and loved it and would have stayed, except for three of our four parents coming down with cancer about 6 years ago. We sold out up there and left to go back to O-town to take care of them. They all beat it (at least for the time being). But we got so burned out on the rat race and the heat in FL that we decided to come and live on this 25 +/- acres.

Hope to get to know all of you better in the future.

Bill & Annie

-- Bill Wagner (ShaySteamer@iname.com), April 18, 2000.


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