Yard Clean Up Continued...

    I am so very thankful that I cut back a very long section of blackberry bushes last year. It made digging up the fence so much easier and I finished it very quickly. Took me about 4 days to dig up the fence, only working 2-4 hours per day.

The view from the backyard looking toward the front yard along the property line where the fence got dug up.

    There is still a few things that need to be done. Cutting down the tree that is growing through the fence, pulling up all the T-post and resetting them, rehanging the fence on the post, and fixing a few holes in the fence. It would be easier to just replace it with new fence, but with money being a bit tight at the moment it will have to wait.

The tree growing through the holes in the fence and the fence cutting into the tree below that.

I do not really want to cut the tree down, but it already has cut marks in it from the fence and if the tree gets bigger it could break causing damage to the fence and our neighbors property. That is definitely something I really would like to avoid. I also need to do something with all this blackberry brush. Blackberry brush takes forever to decompose and I really would not like to have thorns in my compost. It would be easiest to burn it in 1 big pile, but we have a few people that live by us that do not like this plus we are in an area where we are not allowed to do this. My only other option is to slowly over the course of many days to use a burn barrel and burn it. Any thoughts?