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killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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calsmom 8/9 (
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Sat, Jan 27, 07 at 20:51
I dream of a woodland garden! I have the perfect area and land for it. The only problem is the horrible awful yaupon. I know some people plant this stuff as ornamental "trees" but it has taken over here. I have tried clearing some of the land using some good old fashioned elbow grease and sweat....3 saws later All the stumps a resprouting. I have some of it over 3 inches thick. They are the size of small to medium trees and tough suckers too!!!
Does anyone know how to kill the stuff?? If I can get rid of it, I can have a beautiful woodland and wildlife garden. As it is I have a jungle. The space I need to clear is over an acre so a little Weed B Gone won't work. :( Does anyone have any suggestions?? I am more than willing to saw it down by hand (might have to look into a chainsaw), any thought on how to keep it from resprouting??
Thanks for the help!
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RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| I took out a couple hundred leaf bags full here. And then the HOA send me a nasty letter about loving native plants and all. The previous owners were clearly not gardeners. Nor the HOA members. ;-) After cutting it down, cut the stump to the ground and give it a good spray with Round Up. You may have to go back over it with the round up a few times, but stick with it. Besides it doesn't take but a few minutes once a week to spray the Round Up where needed. |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| According to some forestry sites I visit, you have to spray the stump within minutes of cutting down the tree. So have your bottle of Round Up with you when you cut. |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| We have the same problem here with privet (also a small leaved evergreen). Use an herbicide for "woody" plants. Not "weed be gone" but "brush be gone". Or Roundup has a new product for woody plants. As the others said, make fresh cuts and apply immediately. Be sure to get the chemical on the outer edges of the woody growth, that is the actively growing layer between the bark and the heart wood. |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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- Posted by calsmom 8/9 Spring, TX (My Page) on
Sun, Jan 28, 07 at 16:22
I tried to fight some yaupon today.....I am hoping the roundup will work. The more yaupon I cut down the more I realize there aren't as many trees as I thought. These things are HUGE!!!! I think I am going to rent a chainsaw from home depot and see if I can't get throught this a little faster.
The land was previously farmed by my Great Grandfather and his family before him. So there are some beautiful old Oak trees in what was previously the fence line. Hopefully, if I survive this project, :) we will be able to see the trees and their awesome beauty. Today I found the old chicken house, a watering trough (not sure if thats how you spell it), and a few of the original fence posts! Its been a great day. And what a feeling to know the person who last worked with these things was someone I never met but is related to me. :) I love the outdoors!!! |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| I hope you don't cut them all out. Yaupon is a wonderful woodland shrub and understory tree, and the berries are great food for your birds. Maybe leave a few that are manageable? Males won't sprout new seedlings, but I still would like to see you leave some females for the birds to enjoy. |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| Even though weedy, yaupon is a native shrub and it not considered "invasive". I have cleared out three acres of Chinese privet that was smothering my yaupon, that's what I call invasive. Back in presettlement times, periodic forest fires kept them under control. Since we seldom have forest fires anymore you could say that we have made the yaupon into a problem. But if you absolutely must get rid of them , I'd say to paint full strength Brush-B-Gone® on the stumps after cutting. |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| Thanks for all your wonderful tips!! Only time will tell if the stuff is really gone! :) Debndal~ The yaupon here is so thick you cannot even walk through it. I always try to leave plants for the wildlife--even had a wildlife bioligist out to see what could be left to keep the animals happy and not destroy their habitat. He told us that yaupon is good for the birds and the deer, but this is so thick thy can't even get through it. Which I had noticed....they cannot fly through the branches. Anyways, since clearing out a lot of it--the birds are still fluttering about and the deer still have enough of the stuff around to eat.
So all in all--I'm happy and the animals are happy! I'm sure the makers of brush b gone are happy to as much of it as I have bought!!!! :) |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| I am waging war against Privet. When we cut it, we immediately spray the stump with "Tordon" which we get from the Farmer's Co-op. This stops re-sprouting!! |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| Definitely buy a chainsaw! You'll be able to cut quickly and easily. After cutting you can immediately spray the stump, or what I do is wait for resprouts and cut them off then spray the bits that are left, or just spray them while they are small. It will take repeated treatments to kill the stump, but if you are spraying only the sprouts it doesn't take a lot of chemical. This minimizes any bad impacts on your garden and lowers the cost for chemicals. |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| I have been killing yaupon for many years on our 10 acres in northwest Florida. It is not easy. After I cut It I chip and shred it for mulch. A chainsaw is possible but (I have three of them) the yaupon is so tough it tends to throw the chain. Be sure to tighten your chain and have plenty of room for a clean cut. This stuff is nasty! |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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oh I hate this junk. You can go at it with brute force like with a chainsaw, but you would probably be better off looking for a chemical solution so that you can prevent it from coming back as well! Amazon Textbook Coupons 2012the latest coupons for amazon books are available from damngreatdeals.com. These great book coupons are unbeatable, so check them out today. |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| How is yaupon invasive????? It's native. In a managed garden it makes a lovely tree--if it's thinned to just a few specimens. The seedlings are easy to pull. In areas that are foresty/scrubby, like much of central Texas, the canopy stays open and doesn't form a true forest, and yaupon is naturally thick. Which is great for natural areas and not so great for gardening in which people actually walk through... |
I love Yaupon
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| You folks should be sent to Landscaping Jail! :) 1. Yaupon is beautiful.
2. Yaupon is evergreen.
3. Yaupon is THE major food source around here that sustains the dwindling bird populations.
4. I can walk through a thick Yaupon underbrush (with some ducking and contorting, of course).
5. Yaupon provides awesome visual and noise screen.
6. Yaupon is better adapted to these parts than every non-native species - Yaupon tolerates heat and drought like few others.
7. Yaupon maximizes the bio-load and combats ecological issues.
8. It's native, folks, native - for a reason! |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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@ s8us89ds:
You can have all my yaupon..Let me tell you what it did to me..
Our home was affected by the big fires here in Bastrop county last year. We didn't lose our home but we lost every oak tree we had behind our home, because of the yaupon holly that surrounded them. We didn't know any better and didn't expect a forest fire but this stuff is noxious here in Bastrop. Yes, it's native but I don't care, it goes. Because yaupon is so flammable it basically ruined all the oak trees. To make matters worse, the dang stuff that burned is growing back! The stuff was so thick you absolutely couldn't walk through it. |
RE: killing the invasive yaupon!!!!
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| Yaupon (and Gallberry) is adapted to being burned periodically, which is why they typically grow in pine forests, not among hardwoods. I admit I have cut down quiet a bit of Yaupon and wax myrtle in my woods, but I always leave a few scattered for the birds. |
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