Digging up the yard, one thorn vine tuber.............

Yesterday was another digging day. I got Zippy to pose for a size comparison and also put the shovel in the back. This was all attached as one giant mass with multiple vines sprouting from various places. It broke into pieces as we pried and pulled it out. It took a shovel, a pickaxe, a long, heavy metal pinch bar and the wench on the quad to get it all out! With the thorn vines, poison ivy, Virginia creeper, honeysuckle, and wisteria--clearly, it's a jungle out there. Thank goodness we don't have kudzu!!!

The battle of the thorn vines continues

This is just one wheelbarrow full of the tubers from the thorn vines that I've been digging up. (Our timber guy who is an arborist, calls them saw briars) The one that is leaning on the handle weighs 22 lbs. I dug and pried it out of the ground, and yes, we weighed it. :-) The vines run up into the trees and then bloom and make a ton of berries that fall and sprout and.......the process continues. I've been digging them for a few years as spraying only kills the sprout and then they sprout up from another part of the tuber. I'm thinking these have to be YEARS old to get this big.