Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Yucca, You Must Die, 1 by runktrun

runktrun wrote:
Kevin,
Short of embracing yucca for the uncommon sword like structure it can add to almost any garden. I think you need to set a realistic plan in motion and in my experience it will probably take three years to get an established bed under control. I was given the job once (when I was young and foolish) to remove a 10' x 8' very mature bed and after two years of hand digging down to molten magma we brought in a bobcat on the third year and covered the area with black cloth new soil and mulch. The next spring the yucca was poking it's head out of the edges of the cloth but I will admit at that point the digging was more under control. I did notice recently that new home owners have allowed that bed to become part of a field of native grasses, hmm I wonder if lurking somewhere...? kt