Sweet Gum Trees!!!!

fishhead · #21 10/07/11, 09:31 AM

They make a brush killer applicator that looks kind of like an axe. You chop into the bark and it dispenses the herbicide under the bark. That way you don't have to spend time chopping them down.

Farmerga · #22 10/07/11, 02:29 PM

I have noticed that pigs will take down small sweetgum trees. Coyotes will not mess with a pig that is ~50lbs or larger.

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Catalytic · #23 10/08/11, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by debo4702

Okay I need some help. My property is becoming infested with these horrible trees. They are worse than weeds. If you cut one down five come up in its place. They are taking over. I try digging them up but if any root is left over a tree grows from it. My pasture is full off them and since we got rid of the goats....with the help of a few local coyotes..there is nothing to eat them down. Now they are too big to bush hog so we have to hand cut them. Is there anything that I can put on the tree stumps to prevent them from growing back? I feel like I'm running around in circles trying to keep these under control. I hate to use poison but I have too much land to keep trying to hand cut these weed trees.

I'll trade you mimosa and azaleas for your sweet gums! We had a single-trunk mimosa growing beside our shed, it was destroying the roof. Cut it down, it came back triple in size. Cut that down, and now it's about 50 times the size it originally was, argh. I bought round-up for woody plants last week, praying that will work.

Ramblin Wreck · #24 10/09/11, 08:45 AM

Goats are the best thing I've found to control Sweet Gums (and just about anything else). I'd just buy more goats and find a neighbor with a coyote caller. If you kill a few of them, they tend to stay away from your farm, at least I've found that to be true.

BethW · #25 10/09/11, 01:41 PM

Our goats love nothing better than sweet gum trees

am1too · #26 10/09/11, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Catalytic

I'll trade you mimosa and azaleas for your sweet gums! We had a single-trunk mimosa growing beside our shed, it was destroying the roof. Cut it down, it came back triple in size. Cut that down, and now it's about 50 times the size it originally was, argh. I bought round-up for woody plants last week, praying that will work.

It is my understanding that if cut in a certian phaze of the moon they won't grow back. I'm not sure if it is the heart or dead of the moon. The terms may refer to the same thing. I had a great uncle that cut undesirables once a year. Seems like it was sometime between September through November. I have hundres of stumps that didn't grow back this year. Been diggin old stumps fpr a week.