I had a lovely couple of eight foot tall, lush green creosote bushes, surrounded by lots of scraggly, dead-looking creosote bushes. Seriously, these two creosote bushes were the biggest creosote bushes I'd ever seen -- the branches on them were as thick around as my ankles. They were small tree sized.
Lightbulb went on last friday, when I was planning out how I was going to put a new fence in, that the lovely, lush, beautiful creosote bushes were over the drain field on my septic system.
Eeek.
So I wacked 'em to the ground.
(They also blocked the view of my car from my front door we've had the occasional car theft out here, and were cover for rattlesnakes too close to my house, and I need to work on the fence were they were anyway, so I'd sort've been planning on cutting them down. But realization that they were in my drain field was the nudge needed to get me out there with pruning shears, a saw, and some elbow grease.)
They will certainly regrow from the roots.
Will roundup work on creosote or will I need to find another method of making them permanently dead when they start to come back?
-- Leva
