Kudzu removal
in Forest City, NC

Forest City sits along Second Broad River drainage, and a lot of the kudzu calls we get here trace back to a creek bottom or a low, damp strip of ground behind a house or a business lot. Kudzu likes exactly that kind of edge: full sun where the tree line opens up along the water, soft ground it can root into as it runs, and nobody walking back there often enough to catch it early. What starts as a patch along a ditch bank can climb the first row of trees within a couple of seasons.

The RHI Legacy Foundation funded construction of the Thermal Belt Rail Trail, a 12-foot-wide, 13.36-mile asphalt trail built along one of the area's old rail corridors, through exactly the kind of creek-adjacent, formerly cleared ground kudzu tends to colonize once mowing stops. We do not work on the trail itself, but the pattern holds on the private lots that back up to corridors like it: a strip of ground near water and a rail bed or a fence line is prime kudzu ground, and it is most of what we quote on the Forest City side of the county.

A creek-bottom mat is usually damp and dense rather than steep, which is a different job than a Lake Lure hillside but not necessarily an easier one, since wet ground and standing water change how the mulcher can move. Every Forest City quote, four miles from our Rutherfordton shop, is still a fixed written first-visit price with crown treatment included, no day rates, and we flag anything near a stream or drainage before we start, not after. A return visit is recommended and quoted separately as a maintenance plan.

Source: Town of Forest City: Thermal Belt Rail Trail. This source describes the area; it does not confirm scope or price for an individual property.

About 4 miles from our shop in Rutherfordton.