I thought it was dead, but no.
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If you ever do figure out how to kill the damn things, please share. I have some in my yard that have spread, and they are impossible to kill. I have even gone so far as straight round-up with a few drops of dish soap on the cut roots.
What is it?
Yucca blossoms are beautiful and can last for weeks. When they start to die, cut the stalk and it may encourage more bloom stalks.
Digging them up is the only to kill them for sure.
Digging them up is the only to kill them for sure.
coach
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Try a product called Stump & Vine Killer by Bonide. It comes in a small bottle with a brush attached to the cap. Just brush it on any stem cut off near the ground. It's never failed to kill any weed or small tree I've used it on. I haven't tried it on what appears to be a yucca though but I'd be surprised if it didn't work.
woodsy
Buckeye
Ground Clear. Takes a while to notice the effects, then it lasts years. Just take proper precautions. Kills the roots and everything else. Don't use it if something else you want to save is close by.
No Yucca but I have small stumps of Black Locust which keep regrowing. I would leave them be but they are in a bad spot. I hate using herbicides since these stumps are connected to other Black Locust trees. They would not like that and would hurt me, LOL!
Diesel fuel and rock salt mixed will kill almost anything including bamboo. I have been at war with bamboo since I bought my house 25 years ago. The woman who had the place before me was a horticultural nightmare. Nice landscaping is one thing but she took it to an extreme.
We are on on well and septic, very careful about what goes into the soil.
Yes you have to be careful not to pollute your well. Bamboo has rhizomes that travel like crazy. That's why it's so hard to get rid of.
Some people plant it down here. Grows fast and can't be controlled.
That is what she did. It originally was in clay tiles that were stood on end. The problem is that it got out of the tiles and took over. It was against my back fence and got through the fence onto my neighbor's property. I can almost get rid of it on my side but then it comes back through the fence and starts growing again.
Now that made me laugh....
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We had an aspen that started sprouting "suckers" and grew too big and threatened the patio roof. 
1. I chain sawed it and one 6' sucker, then drilled about 30 holes in the stump (I left about 6' standing in order to treat it). Poured 100% Roundup, followed by stump killer, then another dose of Roundup on ends and in holes.
2. Cut it off at the ground and painted stump killer on the stump.
3. Dug up, cut, and applied Roundup to the suckers. Cut all suckers off at ground level. Roundup on all foliage.
4. Repeat steps 2 &3. Trum top of stumps to get a new surface!
5. Repeat step 4.
6. Pull stumps and Roundup in hole (Main & satellite stumps).
7. Tried Holy Water.
8. Drove a hickory stake into its heart!
1. I chain sawed it and one 6' sucker, then drilled about 30 holes in the stump (I left about 6' standing in order to treat it). Poured 100% Roundup, followed by stump killer, then another dose of Roundup on ends and in holes.
2. Cut it off at the ground and painted stump killer on the stump.
3. Dug up, cut, and applied Roundup to the suckers. Cut all suckers off at ground level. Roundup on all foliage.
4. Repeat steps 2 &3. Trum top of stumps to get a new surface!
5. Repeat step 4.
6. Pull stumps and Roundup in hole (Main & satellite stumps).
7. Tried Holy Water.
8. Drove a hickory stake into its heart!
I mostly let the Aspen volunteers alone. They die on their own for lack of water and then I remove them. Some are right where I need them for Summer shade. Siberian Elms are another which require management or they will take over. They are the real COMMUNISTS, you people. All for one and one for all, those trees. An international conspiracy of foliage. The Siberian Menace covertly infiltrating the ground and sprouting new menaces wherever they can!
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I helped clear some spots of bamboo/cane pole when I was a kid. We weren't using chemicals. We attacked with mattocks, hoes & shovels. That stuff is a nightmare because if you start at one stalk the roots go over to another, then another, and another, and so on, and so forth..... Horrible stuff.
I had one that had three major shoots in the middle of my yard.
One day a hanging frond went between my glasses and pierced my eyebrow.
Before the swearing and bleeding were done it was cut off at ground level. I hollowed out the stump and poured lye into it. It never grew back and today a lovely rose bush grows there.
One day a hanging frond went between my glasses and pierced my eyebrow.
Before the swearing and bleeding were done it was cut off at ground level. I hollowed out the stump and poured lye into it. It never grew back and today a lovely rose bush grows there.
