Texas Gardening: Why you never plant Yucca close to your house, 1 by rucky

rucky wrote:
The roots are about 1/4" thick but there are litterally thousands of them from each stump. In this picture I was pulling another stump from a red bush and two yucca stumps came with it. The bed had a good border and good thing it did because the roots just kept wrapping around in the bed they were about 2" deep in the whole bed they were up under the sidewalk and the slab of the house. We have learned from past experience that even a small piece of the tree will grow into another so we are being very carefull to get all of them out. We cut a piece of the stalk one time and layed it in the dirt and two new trees grew off of each end. i just wanted to have a place to vent and to pass on some information so maybe someone else won't make the same mistake. They are a cool plant and very sturdy because they all survived Hurricane Ike. So if you want some of these yrees just don't plant them close to the house......Ron