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  • From: Doug Green <dgreen@kingston.net>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Re: Privet
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:28:20 -0400

At 03:03 PM 10/15/04, you wrote:
Privet is already invasive in the South. In fact, wildly invasive. It is taking over my woods and we haven't found an effective way to get rid of it yet. Digging out one little tree uncovered a colossal root ball with side shoots running all over the place. The township eventually got it out of its hole for us with a cherry picker.


While I won't argue with it being invasive, I can tell you how to easily and effectively eliminate individual plants. Whether you'd want to do this on a forest is another story (grin) Cut off the plant leaving approximately twelve inches of trunk. While the trunk is still freshly cut, paint it with full strength Roundup (glyphosate). This is a labelled practice and is extremely effective on any woody plant. I've killed Manitoba maples (Acer negundo) as well as poplar with this system and if you can kill those suckering trees, you can kill almost anything. I leave twelve inches of trunk in case I have to reapply it (it has happened only once on a 24 inch diameter maple) and then I can recut the trunk easily.

Doug
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