I have them growing up all over the place and I have tried to dig them up and they keep coming back...any ideas?
2006-09-20 05:16:46 · 8 answers · asked by centralfiresafety 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
i wouldn't suggest using round up because roundup travels through the roots and into the tree in most cases. they make an acid for that you can find it at most nurseries and its pretty effective against the little trees.
2006-09-20 05:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by Paul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they are small enough, pull them out, if bigger dig them out. You must have a trash tree somewhere in your neighborhood that keeps sending out those wonderful volunteers. I pull up thousands every spring and summer. You could also hoe the whole mess of them up if there are that many.
2006-09-20 05:25:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just keep mowing them. Continually keeping a tree @ 2 - 3 inches will make it give up eventually. If you disturb the root from whence they come with chemicals or such, you'll kill the tree they're coming from. That's the way Poplars procreate.
2006-09-20 07:13:02 · answer #3 · answered by fibreglasscar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pull them, hon. Unless you want to spray with a herbicide like Roundup. They will continue to come back as long as there are other trees around to drop seeds. That wasn't much help, huh?
2006-09-20 05:20:01 · answer #4 · answered by reynwater 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put a cup of rocksalt around the base of young trees, and they will die with in hours. (I would wait for the sun, and water the base after you put the rock salt down, so it gets in the roots).
I have killed trees that were well developed, with rocksalt around the base of them...(some, not even meaning to kill, but, I was salting the japaneese knot weed at work, trying to get it to die, which it did, but came up the next year, but after 5 years it finally quit).
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-09-20 05:26:57 · answer #5 · answered by x 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For seedlings, pull them as soon as you can get a firm grip on them.
For root suckers, pull them or chop them off the root so you get the tissue that wants to keep sprouting.
Mowing your lawn will keep sprouts down but probably not kill them. Identify as sucker or seedling and proceed as abouve.
2006-09-20 07:33:47 · answer #6 · answered by Cornpatch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
had that problem just kept pulling them out.
2006-09-20 05:20:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
pull them to the roots and destroy.
2006-09-20 05:25:25 · answer #8 · answered by prince47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋