Re: [SG] hello
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] hello
- From: B* S*
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:07:05 -0400
>At 04:49 PM 7/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >
>>What do you consider weed maples. My candidates would be Silver,
>>Box Elder and Norway. How big are they. Small saplings can be
>>pulled out. Up to one-inch diameter, I would cut them off with
>>loppers near the base and remove suckers as they sprout. It may
>>take a few years. larger ones a pruning saw would be in order.
I dealt with some red maple stump sprouts a few years ago by cutting them
all down (the largest was about 4" in diameter), then covering the whole
stump area with plastic trash bags weighted down by wet autumn leaves. The
exclusion of light stopped the sprouting, and a year later the stumps were
dead and rotting. Smaller trees are killed after being cut down and having
leaves piled on top of them, without the trash bags. The heavy layer of
leaves seems to work also for Japanese honeysuckle, but not for poison ivy.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
