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My neighbors are the sweetest people and I know they don't have the time, so I've just been hopping the fence and hacking down anything near my side of the property. I cut down a small tree last weekend and had to wrestle with the oriental bittersweet to even get it out of there. It's a losing battle as a million saplings are now taller than me and this gives all the invasive vines even more space to climb... the monster seriously just continues to grow in size daily. One of their trees is starting to lean towards our house with the weight of the english, algerian, and poison ivy, so I cut a bunch of it off at the base in the hope of killing it.
Anyway, I have a stretch of my garden that was nothing but daylillies and siberian iris... though now it's been overrun by honeysuckle and vinca that I didn't catch in time before it made it to my side since it hides under the tall leaves. It's too hard to weed between these plants and I'm not much of a fan of them anyway since their blooms are so fleeting. I'd like to smother this section of garden and either make it grass so that it can be mowed to keep in in check or potentially try fresh with another garden with plants that are a bit easier to weed around. My question is, with these plants being bulbs are they even smotherable? My hope was to mow them down and lay landscaping plastic over them for a year to solarize them and then maybe lay cardboard next spring to finish the job of smothering anything left. Will it work or do you think I'll have to dig them all up? It's a very large space so I'm dreading the thought.