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Vines and privet<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\nI had sawed off that privet.
\nIt was supposed to push to the side when I backed the tractor with mower in.<\/p>\n
\nInstead, the grapevines and Smilax decided that invasive exotic Chinese privet would go up on top of the tractor canopy.<\/p>\n
\nProbably I would have noticed earlier, but I was concentrating on not backing into a tree and not getting caught around the throat by catbriars. \nNote to self: next time take a machete. \n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maybe I should have trimmed some more vines before backing in there. Vines and privet I had sawed off that privet. It was supposed to push to the side when I backed the tractor with mower in. Instead, the grapevines and Smilax decided that invasive exotic Chinese privet would go up on top of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2747,6,60,3362,3177],"tags":[3361,3155,3,2843,23,5,2,2760,2780,900,1498],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grapes","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-plants","category-privet","category-smilax","tag-cat-briar","tag-chinese-privet","tag-georgia","tag-grapes","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-plants","tag-privet","tag-smilax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9168,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions\/9168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou know those Smilax with the stout sharp thorns and thick stems: Smilax bona-nox<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nCutting each vine with clippers took a while.<\/p>\n