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Re: Burning as honeysuckle control

We at the Olin Nature Preserve have had some success with burning bush
honeysuckle but it took about three years of annual burns in our honeysuckle
infested woods before it began to work.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Siemers <saywhat@inxpress.net>
To: <prairie@mallorn.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Burning as honeysuckle control


> I would welcome any comments or suggestions relating to effects of burning
> on honeysuckle.
>
> I've volunteered for three years at an 11 year old government owned
> restoration in south central Wisconsin, trying to control invaders, one of
> which is honeysuckle.  We've cut and stump-treated the larger specimens
> successfully, using a 50% Roundup solution.  For the past two seasons
we've
> left the smaller honeysuckles, those of about two and a half feet or so in
> height, believing that the early April burns would kill most of them, but
> that hasn't been the case.  This season especially, a few weeks after a
> great burn which resulted in the honeysuckle crowns being well-charred,
and
> all of last years above ground growth burned, there is abundant
resprouting
> at the base.  Relatively few of these "smaller" honeysuckles were really
> killed by the burn.
>
> Is this typical of the experience of others or are the prairie gods just
mad
> at us?
>
> Thanks for any comments.
>
> Ken Siemers
>
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