How do I kill it ?????

Cuz im a broke single mom whos putting every penny into building a cabin. The goin rate for something like that is about $450

Ya Deaconjim, that would probably work also. thnx

Oooo and Ive never had mesquite honey or jelly...sounds interesting.

Have you ever seen the insides of a large mesquite? Its bright yellow. Weird.

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Are you confusing mesquite with bois d'arc? Mesquite wood isn't yellow.
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I'm with whiterock! Every mesquite I've ever seen was red with a yellow ring on the outer edge on some....

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They say you are what you eat. Nuts must be more common in diets than we thought.

Well....I hired an arborist to come out and look at my trees (so I wouldnt cut down something good) before I started clearing and he told me it was a mesquite. After I cut it down I looked at the branches and it did have the same long thorns on it just like the smaller trees. Hmmmm idk, maybe I got ripped off????
I'll take a pic today or tomrw and post it.

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go to tractor supply or some farm store and check on a spray called CROSSBOW it kills every thing in my area that i dont want growing but not sure about mesquite but you could read the label thats on it. its a lil expensive but well worth every penny to get rid of problem plants and trees.

Are the thorns really long, like about 3", and the seed pods kind of twisted and flat, about 10 -12 " lon and 1'11/2" wide? If so that is a Honey Locust, and I would much prefer mesquite. I have both but the locust is just plain dangerous. I haven't cut one of any size in sometime. There is another small tree, that has short thorns all over the trunk, and smaller thorns on the limbs, it has a yellow wood, and if you cut limbs off and let them graze you on the way to the ground they will cut like a knife. It is called Hercules's club. Has a very strange scent to the wood and the leaves.
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Ok so heres the mystery tree....

It doesnt look as yellow as when I first cut it - it was bright yellow

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That is a Bois d'arc, also called Osage Orange, or Horse Apple. Makes VERY good fence posts, doesn't rot, dries to be so hard you can strike sparks with a hammer blow, burns hot but throws a lot of sparks. Plant the seeds close together and it will make one heck of a fence.
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O I C thnx, well since I'm such a novice and it looks like I got ripped off by the arborist, I better make sure what Im trying to kill is indeed mesquite.....
Sorry about the quality, my camera keeps wanting to focus on the ground

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You cannot fight nature. You must learn to work with it. First of all, put in some raised beds, second of all, cut down that mesquite, bag it and sell it to people to use in their barbeques. BINGO! cottage industry and income stream

donsgal

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Yes, wood carvers like it too because it is so hard they can make things that other wood is too soft for. Also, the wood chips are used by fiber artists as a dye.

I seem to recall that I read somewhere that, because it is so dense, that it gives off the highest BTUs than any other wood when you burn it in a wood stove.

I want to plant some on the fence line between the road so that if a car runs off the road it will not end up in our yard. LOL They are fast growing too, but lordie, they are messy with those hedge apples falling all over the place.

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The last pic showed a young mesquite, the reddish vines at the ground are dewberries.
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We call it hedge up here in Iowa, it sells for about 4 to 8 dollars for a 8 ft line post. A corner post can range from 10 to 30 dollars depending on how straight they are. These posts will still be holding fence long after you are gone. And if you drive a fence staple into one, that's right where it stays cuz you can't pull it out.

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A grown mesquite can have a tap root more than a hundred feet deep, and lateral roots stretching out over 50-75 away from the tree. Very hard to get all of the roots, but it is possible to kill by removing as many roots as possible. A D5 with a six way blade angled all the way to one side and tilted downward can be used to pop the trees out of the ground and drag the roots out with little damage to the ground.

Best wood for bow making is Bois d'arc....

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If you're going to be there a few more years, you might consider thinning out the smaller trees & selling them for firewood or, if they're big enough, for timber. The larger trees will then get that much bigger. It's a fairly valuable wood. Takes a beautiful stain.

Alternately, dig up and sell the medium sized trees for landscaping. You might have quite a bit of $$$ in landscape trees there.

To get rid of mesquite, wait until summer, fertilize it after a good wet spell, when it's growing and lush. Water it. When it explodes with growth, hit it with roundup. Never had to do a repeat treatment. If it comes up from seeds, they're fairly easy to whack with a hoe.

I get occasional mesquite trees growing in my yard because it gets baled in hay and since I don't know the variety or cross (I'm not so fond of chilean mesquite from a landscape standpoint) I kill it.

Sooner or later, I'll plant some blue mesquite. THAT is a nice landscape tree,

-- Leva

Tell it to Texas A&M,they endorse useing the mix to kill mesquites.

Goats will not control mesquites in 100 years. Any animal that eats the mesquite beans are just planting more mesquite trees in the animals droppings.