We had to mount the solar panel array far from the house because the area near the house doesn’t get much sun. There was a guava tree (a weed, really) and a bunch of brush growing where the panels needed to go, so we took it all down to bare earth and mounted the panels. The solar array works great so I put it out of my mind. When I noticed some guava seedlings and wireweed plants (both highly invasive species) growing up on the skinned earth I would avert my attention with, at most, a “I should mow that down some day.”
Now, it has grown too high and thick to mow or attack with a string trimmer. I was thinking we might need to get a brush hog or something here, or at least invest in a sharp sling blade, when I remembered that I had an electric hedge trimmer. It’s not perfect: you have to use it bent over and it doesn’t get right down to the ground, but it definitely clears things pretty quickly. It’s electric and we already own it, so it seems like the right solution.
—2p