Another morning of work to remove the Torpedo grass. Because it's summer, the ground is soft and easy to dig. In the photo, my shovel handle at the top of the photo shows that these rhizomes are located about a foot beneath the surface.
(We'll continue to monitor the area.)
We had to pull the mondo grass because the rhizome was woven throughout as if the hairy root system invited it to create a weaving. If just a little piece of rhizome remained, the torpedo grass would re-establish. As you can see the mondo grass is barely visible. When we pulled it, it came right out, likely weakened from the grass's aggression.
But now we have a huge pile of Torpedo grass and many rhizomes!
PROBLEM #2:
How do we dispose of the pile?
Put the invasive grasses in our yard debris bins for pick up? (No.)
Ask Brightview to pick it up. (I did. Matthew and Adrian said that they take all of the yard debris to their land waste facility, so that won't work. That means we need to find a more specialized disposal.)
Using this disposal guidance (a section from the Guide is below), we'll bag the pile and leave it in the sun for a couple weeks to bake. The summer sun is hot and a way to "incinerate" the rhizomes so that we don't pass our problems to other people, yards, and habitats outside of Wildewood Springs.
