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Yay for getting rid of buckthorn! I've gotten rid of several large ones on my property (and just over the fence on my neighbour's property). I've found that you don't have to worry too much about the branches you cut off - I've never had any root and I just leave them in a pile. Also, an alternative to covering the stump is to just remove those new branches as they appear. I cut the tree, then once or twice I remove the branches from the stump like you did and that usually does it. One tree I removed was growing through the chain link fence, so I could only cut it off at the top of the fence, leaving about 4 feet remaining. It was multi-trunk with about 6 or 8 trunks. It resprouted, like yours, but I pulled those sprouts off twice that summer and it didn't come back after the winter. When I remove the sprouts, I try to pull them off by pulling downwards. That removes the sprout and some of the bark, discouraging it to resprout at the same spot. If I can't pull it off, or if there are a bunch of sprouts at the same point, I cut off the whole nub as close to the bark as I can get. I saw that your pruners were anvil pruners and I find that bypass pruners work better - they let you get closer to the bark (and when you are pruning a plant that you want to keep, bypass pruners don't crush the branch). Hope that helps and keep up the good work!
This is super helpful and encouraging! I hope I can contain my buckthorn battle, and that yours is over and done with too! Thank you for the tips and for the suggestion on a new tool - adding that to my Christmas wishlist now!! It's always helpful to know what works best for folks - especially when I've pretty much inherited most of my tools from others! Thanks again! 💚
use Triclopr 4 mixed with methylated Seed oil in a Kerosene carrier. A wee skosh goes a very long way. You can use a hand sprayer , or a brush for surgical precision. The seed oil makes it penetrate bark. Takes a few weeks they woody bush / tree just dies. You can drill a one inch hole in the stump and fill that with salt. Chlorine does it too. Cover the filled stump with aluminum foil to keep rain off.
Wow... That's pretty growth. And the stump? A heavy chain, an old flat spare, a trailer hitch & a car to pull them all with. Tire translates the horizontal pull to mostly vertical. Be sure to get the chain tight before you go heavy on the gas.
Great idea! I hope others will be able to use this method to help haul bigger trees out of the ground! Unfortunately no vehicles will be able to access this space, so I'm outta luck! Thanks for watching and for the idea for others! 💚
Good on you for getting rid of the tree. It is far easier, and safe for u and the environment to just cut part of the stump down to live wood and, within ten mins ‘paint’ the stump with at least a 20% solution of glysophate. Given where u are u can also paint those small branches after u cut them. Hopefully your method will work at this point. But really happy with your efforts.
Interesting - I will have to look into this. I'm trying to stay chemical free - especially by the water source, but I will do some research and learn more. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch my little video and for the suggestion too! 💚
@ understood but without some chems people will get frustrated with regrowth. And this is highly targeted use. U r literally just painted in the stump with a brush. Not a foliage spray. And it affects nothing around the tree or bush. Google it and u can see different ways people do it. Best of luck
Let me try this again. What do you want to do is drill a hole into that stump a 1 inch to half inch hole as far down as the auger will go butterfly did whatever you want to use Can you fill that hole full of sodium nitrate Then you wait until the spring You you in till everything dries out a little bit And you can pour a little sodium nitrate maybe a little gun powder Back into that hole In the stump At this point it should become a fuse. Use a small amount of caution because there will be a fire involved in the lighting this probably with some kind of propane torch Do you like that sucker on fire gun powder if you choose to use it will spark idea and if not the sodium nitrate will spark a bit and that's not cool turned into a giant use burn in the ground which you must take caution on keeping an ion him make sure he doesn't catch the forest on fire this is how you get rid of locus and any other gosh darn tree and has suckers coming up everywhere. Anyway I got this information from the book from 1925 so what do I know.... bl
@@TheSuburbanGardenista Well the sodium nitrate Is is a common fertilizer Easily pick up at the farm store or local garden center maybe not so easily anymore. You might just have to sign a list That you bought it. Did it it is a key component in gun powder. fuses. Charcoal and sulfur will get your gun powder. But yeah I do think it was an Audels Gardening and fruit tree maintenance four part series for books from 1924. The other great back they got from those books was that if you just turn your soil about 10 inches deep you don't need to fertilize. But that could be a very big hole 10 inches deep. Thanks have fun
@@TheSuburbanGardenista there is also the Cayenne pepper balm for moles if you haven't heard of that one. Fill a sock stuff in the hole Lite it Apparently nobody likes getting maced
I had to clear an invasion of mulberry saplings so I denuded the bark and cambium layers to the ground, causing each to die. The buckthorn's bark looks more sturdy than the mulberry's, but I wonder if that would work on the younger ones you showed nearby to the sample subject.
Yes - I think that would be an option as well - I believe it's called 'girdling' - though from what I've read, you have to watch for new growth similarly, and bagging it is helpful in that case as well. I'm hoping with some good tugging, I'll be able to get the young ones out - it's in a creek bed, so the soil is shallow. Fingers crossed! Thanks for watching and for the comment! 💚
I dont see how covering the stump in the fall is gonna do much when the plant is going dormant and dropping leaves anyways. Might be a better idea in the spring. If theres a lot of energy stored in a big root system, its likely to sprout around the base of the stump too. In many places buckthorn has completely taken over the understory and its a big problem as nothing else will grow there. At some point you may have to accept that the only way to prevent this is through chemical management. Hopefully your strategy works and it doesnt come to that.
@@jeil5676 fair point for sure - I forgot to mention that I'll be leaving the bag on for 1-2 years (and replace if necessary). I'll add that to the comments too. I am expecting growth from the base unfortunately. I'll have to devise a bit of a skirt, but I think it'll get washed away in this location. I might just have to clip away as necessary. Thank you for your comment and for watching my little video! 💚
0:46 what you do do is your drill a 1 inch or a three-quarter inch pole down as far as you can as that stub till it was sodium nitrate and wait till the spring when the weather dries out Kapalua gun powder in there and legs are on fire and watch that root burn deep into the ground
Do not for the love of God ever shop at Michael's that advertise on this video podcast thing Michael's crafts is a holy on subsidiary of ____ in my opinion
This is fine if you have A buckthorn, but nobody has A buckthorn. Have to treat with chemical if you want to get rid of it for good and get on with your life.
Fair point! I know chemicals are definitely an option, but unfortunately not one I'd like to use in this particular space. Hope your battle is easier than mine! Thanks for watching and for the comment 💚
Roundup kills trees true it also kills indiscriminately. I'm pretty sure she didnt want to kill the trees next to it. Read the directions on roundup and it will say not to use under the drip line of any tree.
@@stevezielonko1386 Thank you for your support! 💚 I also don't want the chemicals entering the creek or harming the other creatures in the area - no chemicals for this girl!
@@richey_rockI agree entirely with keeping chemicals out of the creek 💚 and out of the ecosystem entirely - I don't think any of the critters nearby would appreciate it either!
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Yay for getting rid of buckthorn!
I've gotten rid of several large ones on my property (and just over the fence on my neighbour's property). I've found that you don't have to worry too much about the branches you cut off - I've never had any root and I just leave them in a pile. Also, an alternative to covering the stump is to just remove those new branches as they appear. I cut the tree, then once or twice I remove the branches from the stump like you did and that usually does it. One tree I removed was growing through the chain link fence, so I could only cut it off at the top of the fence, leaving about 4 feet remaining. It was multi-trunk with about 6 or 8 trunks. It resprouted, like yours, but I pulled those sprouts off twice that summer and it didn't come back after the winter.
When I remove the sprouts, I try to pull them off by pulling downwards. That removes the sprout and some of the bark, discouraging it to resprout at the same spot. If I can't pull it off, or if there are a bunch of sprouts at the same point, I cut off the whole nub as close to the bark as I can get. I saw that your pruners were anvil pruners and I find that bypass pruners work better - they let you get closer to the bark (and when you are pruning a plant that you want to keep, bypass pruners don't crush the branch).
Hope that helps and keep up the good work!
This is super helpful and encouraging! I hope I can contain my buckthorn battle, and that yours is over and done with too! Thank you for the tips and for the suggestion on a new tool - adding that to my Christmas wishlist now!! It's always helpful to know what works best for folks - especially when I've pretty much inherited most of my tools from others! Thanks again! 💚
use Triclopr 4 mixed with methylated Seed oil in a Kerosene carrier. A wee skosh goes a very long way. You can use a hand sprayer , or a brush for surgical precision. The seed oil makes it penetrate bark. Takes a few weeks they woody bush / tree just dies.
You can drill a one inch hole in the stump and fill that with salt. Chlorine does it too. Cover the filled stump with aluminum foil to keep rain off.
Interesting - thanks for the suggestions - I'll look into them 💚
Wow... That's pretty growth. And the stump? A heavy chain, an old flat spare, a trailer hitch & a car to pull them all with. Tire translates the horizontal pull to mostly vertical. Be sure to get the chain tight before you go heavy on the gas.
Great idea! I hope others will be able to use this method to help haul bigger trees out of the ground! Unfortunately no vehicles will be able to access this space, so I'm outta luck! Thanks for watching and for the idea for others! 💚
Good on you for getting rid of the tree. It is far easier, and safe for u and the environment to just cut part of the stump down to live wood and, within ten mins ‘paint’ the stump with at least a 20% solution of glysophate. Given where u are u can also paint those small branches after u cut them. Hopefully your method will work at this point. But really happy with your efforts.
Interesting - I will have to look into this. I'm trying to stay chemical free - especially by the water source, but I will do some research and learn more. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch my little video and for the suggestion too! 💚
@ understood but without some chems people will get frustrated with regrowth. And this is highly targeted use. U r literally just painted in the stump with a brush. Not a foliage spray. And it affects nothing around the tree or bush. Google it and u can see different ways people do it. Best of luck
Let me try this again.
What do you want to do is drill a hole into that stump a 1 inch to half inch hole as far down as the auger will go butterfly did whatever you want to use
Can you fill that hole full of sodium nitrate
Then you wait until the spring
You you in till everything dries out a little bit
And you can pour a little sodium nitrate maybe a little gun powder
Back into that hole
In the stump
At this point it should become a fuse.
Use a small amount of caution because there will be a fire involved in the lighting this probably with some kind of propane torch
Do you like that sucker on fire gun powder if you choose to use it will spark idea and if not the sodium nitrate will spark a bit and that's not cool turned into a giant use burn in the ground which you must take caution on keeping an ion him make sure he doesn't catch the forest on fire this is how you get rid of locus and any other gosh darn tree and has suckers coming up everywhere.
Anyway I got this information from the book from 1925 so what do I know.... bl
Interesting - I've never heard of that, and have no idea where to get gun powder lol thanks for the suggestion, but I'm trying to stay chemical free 💚
@@TheSuburbanGardenista Well the sodium nitrate
Is is a common fertilizer
Easily pick up at the farm store or local garden center maybe not so easily anymore.
You might just have to sign a list
That you bought it.
Did it it is a key component in gun powder. fuses.
Charcoal and sulfur will get your gun powder.
But yeah I do think it was an Audels
Gardening and fruit tree maintenance four part series for books from 1924.
The other great back they got from those books was that if you just turn your soil about 10 inches deep you don't need to fertilize.
But that could be a very big hole 10 inches deep. Thanks have fun
@@TheSuburbanGardenista there is also the Cayenne pepper balm for moles if you haven't heard of that one.
Fill a sock stuff in the hole
Lite it
Apparently nobody likes getting maced
@@PerspectiveEngineer 😳 holy moly! Things I never thought I'd be looking into! Thanks for the info!!
I had to clear an invasion of mulberry saplings so I denuded the bark and cambium layers to the ground, causing each to die. The buckthorn's bark looks more sturdy than the mulberry's, but I wonder if that would work on the younger ones you showed nearby to the sample subject.
Yes - I think that would be an option as well - I believe it's called 'girdling' - though from what I've read, you have to watch for new growth similarly, and bagging it is helpful in that case as well. I'm hoping with some good tugging, I'll be able to get the young ones out - it's in a creek bed, so the soil is shallow. Fingers crossed! Thanks for watching and for the comment! 💚
Any tips on wisteria removal
I haven't tried to manage that quite yet - I've heard it's quite the beast! I will keep that in mind for future videos - thanks! 💚
I dont see how covering the stump in the fall is gonna do much when the plant is going dormant and dropping leaves anyways. Might be a better idea in the spring. If theres a lot of energy stored in a big root system, its likely to sprout around the base of the stump too. In many places buckthorn has completely taken over the understory and its a big problem as nothing else will grow there. At some point you may have to accept that the only way to prevent this is through chemical management. Hopefully your strategy works and it doesnt come to that.
@@jeil5676 fair point for sure - I forgot to mention that I'll be leaving the bag on for 1-2 years (and replace if necessary). I'll add that to the comments too. I am expecting growth from the base unfortunately. I'll have to devise a bit of a skirt, but I think it'll get washed away in this location. I might just have to clip away as necessary. Thank you for your comment and for watching my little video! 💚
What a pain. I'm glad I don't have this to deal with.
@@thegardenfix Hallelujah!! It's a bully of a beast!
0:46 what you do do is your drill a 1 inch or a three-quarter inch pole down as far as you can as that stub till it was sodium nitrate and wait till the spring when the weather dries out Kapalua gun powder in there and legs are on fire and watch that root burn deep into the ground
It is almost impossible to add it on TH-cam these days😂
Do not for the love of God ever shop at Michael's that advertise on this video podcast thing Michael's crafts is a holy on subsidiary of ____ in my opinion
Lol funny enough, I think TH-cam targets the ads based on what it thinks you'll like - looks like they got that wrong for you!!
This is fine if you have A buckthorn, but nobody has A buckthorn. Have to treat with chemical if you want to get rid of it for good and get on with your life.
Fair point! I know chemicals are definitely an option, but unfortunately not one I'd like to use in this particular space. Hope your battle is easier than mine! Thanks for watching and for the comment 💚
If you were not so hung up you would simply roundup the damn thing!
Chemicals are definitely an option for some, but unfortunately not one for me and this particular space. Thanks for watching and for the comment 🙂
Roundup kills trees true it also kills indiscriminately. I'm pretty sure she didnt want to kill the trees next to it. Read the directions on roundup and it will say not to use under the drip line of any tree.
Treating with chemicals next to a water source is a terrible and ignorant thing to suggest.
@@stevezielonko1386 Thank you for your support! 💚 I also don't want the chemicals entering the creek or harming the other creatures in the area - no chemicals for this girl!
@@richey_rockI agree entirely with keeping chemicals out of the creek 💚 and out of the ecosystem entirely - I don't think any of the critters nearby would appreciate it either!