We spent three days working on the ditch lilies, a total of almost eight hours with clean up and everything. It was a bit of a muddy mess, so there was considerable tool cleanup. But if it had not been a muddy mess it would have been that much harder to get them out.
This is the situation we were dealing with. After sixteen or seventeen years, each clump had expanded to the point of taking over the railroad tie border and was not only speeding up the disintegration of the RR ties, but making its way into the gravel. There was a mass of roots along the ties.
Some of the fence sections were not as bad and we could sift through a bit with a fork. But the further along we went, the more aggressive we got until we were stripping some sections down to the gravel.
Next we will fill in the low spots with soil, cut the lawn edge and mulch.
The ditch lilies got moved back to the ditch.
Your day Lilly situation looks very familiar!
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