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Message: [QUOTE="jdb50, post: 3962743, member: 1530"] One thing you can do is just let the grass grow higher. There is most likely no change that will be maintenance free. Things migrate in by seed or bird droppings. Bittersweet is the worst but then you have poison ivy, autumn olive, and winged euonymus as well as native trees and shrubs. Vinca does seem to keep some weeds down but I still have to go out and pull saplings every couple years. The last few winters the deer have been mowing our vinca in the winter for food but it still grows back in the spring and flowers which surprises me. When mowing a slope on a zero turn wear your seatbelt and it is smart to have the roll bar up. I have found 3 passes laterally to be tolerable safety wise. With higher slopes I would go up on an angle. It is the return down the slope that is dangerous and you need room at the bottom if the mower starts to slide and you have to move forward very slowly. Forget doing it on wet grass. [/QUOTE]