Re: [Cz-L] Cleaning the cemetery.

On clearing/cleaning the cemetery:

The cemetery consists of areas where the graves are quite close
to each other, as well as major and minor paths.
The tombstones are mostly upright and most graves are covered
with a stone plate, which often is surrounded by a low ornamental
metal fence.

The vegetation at the cemetery consists of:
1. Mature old trees, such as: Horse-Chestnuts, Weeping Willow, Norway
maple
     and Black locust.
2. Sapling trees (trees no more than 3 years old and no bigger than
4" (10cm) diameter.
     These are almost all Norway maples and grew from seeds of the
older trees.
3. Vines and climbing plants, such as: Vinca and English Ivy.
4. Annual weeds.

It is easy to clear the vegetation from the major paths and to keep
these paths clear.
It is more difficult to clear the minor paths since they are narrow.
Clearing between the graves and/or their metal surrounds cannot be
done with power tools.
It has to be done carefully by hand

Old mature trees should be removed only if they are diseased and
threaten to break,
or if they scatter thousands of seeds which grow into saplings.

The sapling trees are so dense and they are so undesirable, that all
of them
should be removed.

Vines and climbing plants damage the tombstones and should be removed
completely.
Annual weeds can be tolerated, at least temporarily.

What has been done so far:
Some old and diseased trees have been removed.
Almost the whole cemetery was cleared once of sapling trees, bushes
and vines.
This was done using power saws.
By the end of this summer, the whole cemetery will have been cleared
once.
Only a very small part of the cemetery was sprayed with herbicides.

Current situation:
In all areas of the cemetery which were not sprayed with herbicides,
new shoots
have grown from the stumps of trees, bushes and vines. Even though
these shoots are very tall and dense, they consist of soft wood which
can be cut
easily using hand tools.

Considerations:
Where the newly sprouted saplings, bushes and vines are very tall and
dense,
they need to be cut to about 20" (50cm)before the area can be sprayed
with herbicides.
The period during which herbicides can be sprayed is limited to warm
and dry weather.
Volunteers work more patiently and carefully than hired laborers.
They often also are not able to do hard physical labor.

Please look at:
https://picasaweb.google.com/MReiferTaylor/
VegetationAtTheChernivtsiJewishCemetery
and all my other photographs of the cemetery at picasaweb albums.

Mimi

On Jul 8, 2011, at 10:54 AM, cornel fleming wrote:

> I would say do it thoroughly....otherwise it just grows back more
> rapidly
> and needs more spraying. Cornel
>

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