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Re: Burning as honeysuckle control

I have no experience with burning of honeysuckle, but I did do some spraying
of the green leaves with a 5% round-up solution last year in mid-November
and it appears to have killed the entire plant.  They were about 6 feet in
height.  This could effect other woodland flowers that were green, but in
this case there were none and it did no damage to surrounding vegetation.  I
will try it on a larger scale next year.

Carl Kurtz
Central Iowa


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>From: saywhat@inxpress.net (Ken Siemers)
>To: prairie@mallorn.com
>Subject: Burning as honeysuckle control
>Date: Sun, May 14, 2000, 3:54 PM
>

>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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