Strawberry Guava

[TheYogi]

I have as much strawberry guava as anyone. It's a love-hate relationship. A couple of the many pros and cons.

Cons:

1. It's harming all the beautiful native plants on my land.
2. It's incredibly dangerous to remove when it's as thick as it is on my land. The scar on my face is testimony to that.

Pros:
1. I'm building all kinds of fun stuff with it. From raised beds to animal pens and furniture.
2. I'm making insane amounts of biochar. I use the charcoal I use to make terra preta (google it) AND use it for the BBQ.
3. I don't need to build any fences. I can keep guava around my perimeter as a natural fence.

How we remove guava that is 4 inches and smaller in diameter:

1. Chainsaw down the tree leaving a 4+ foot stump.
2. Dig a very small amount around the circumference of the tree breaking up enough roots to make it wiggle.
3. Utilizing the leverage of the long stump we made, we wrestle the stump from side to side and cut out the roots.
4. If there was a large tap root left, we drill into it and drip a couple of drops of herbicide directly into it.

I anticipate we'll be adding goats to our armada soon. A friend brought a goat over and it DID chew on guava when nothing tastier was around.