Yesterday I finally chopped down a huge cactus that I had in my backyard. I was concerned that it might knock the back fence down if I left it any longer and now that it's down I don't think the fence would have lasted another winter with all of that pressure on it. You can see the kink in the fence... You can also see the wasted yard behind me.
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This is probably 2/3rds of the cactus, it was huge......... Will look at covering it with black plastic I think, to see if it will break down fairly quickly with heat. I thought originally that I would cover it with good soil and plant straight in it, but there's a lot more than what I thought.
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I guess I'll still need to get rid of the stump as well, though I think that won't take long to rot away either. The cactus must have been over 90% water I reckon with a thin layer of woody material in it.
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I might not get to plant in this bed until next year....
