Get rid of these Invasive Trees!!!

[tjm]

1 hour ago, ness said:

oes anybody else think this year is the worst ever by a large margin?

So far. Think about next year and the next each tree seeding hundreds more. They will replace dogwood and redbud as being the harbinger of spring in the Ozarks.

[Quillback]

14 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

 

I have neighbors I want to sneak in and go samurai on those trees!

This could be you Marty:

 

[ness]

15 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

I have neighbors I want to sneak in and go samurai on those trees!

The problem is, in my experience, the root systems will send up suckers long after the tree is down. I've been spraying the suckers that come up from the ones I took out for a few years. It's getting to be less and less and maybe none this year, but they're a bugger to get rid of.

[ness]

16 minutes ago, tjm said:

They will replace dogwood and redbud as being the harbinger of spring in the Ozarks.

They already have here largely. 

I will say they seem to be out in the open fields, along roadsides or forest edges, not so much penetrating into the woods. 

[BilletHead]

7 minutes ago, ness said:

They already have here largely. 

I will say they seem to be out in the open fields, along roadsides or forest edges, not so much penetrating into the woods. 

They are in the woods here. Last year setting up swarm traps I got a whiff of the callery pear blossom. Not a pleasant smell. I kept looking until I found it in the timber. Went over to it. Honey bees and other pollinators use them but not significant for bees. I asked the land owner if I could cut it down. Well yes certainly. That same area has many now. 

[tjm]

They are wherever the wind blows. Just thicker in some areas, it's really futile to try controlling them at this point,  pretty much a waste of time and money. Same thing as trying to eradicate the Sericea lespedeza that was introduced by the government; gazillions of seeds laying dormant and waiting sprout as soon as you  look away.

 

[Gavin]

There are at least 10,000 of them in every road ditch in west St Louis County. I'm down to 3 of them. After tax season, they are toast. Smell like hell when the burn too.

 

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2 hours ago, Gavin said:

There are at least 10,000 of them in every road ditch in west St Louis County. I'm down to 3 of them. After tax season, they are toast. Smell like hell when the burn too.

 

Drill holes in the stump and pour high yield stump remover in them.  

[Terrierman]

I fear this battle is lost.

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1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

I fear this battle is lost.

The war is lost too.