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Controlling Osage Orange Growth

snuffy2
14 years ago

Hoping someone out there would have some advice or recommendations.

I bought a new house about a year ago and the back of the property between me & my neighbor is a row of Osage Orange trees (& his fence). There are 5 main tree cluster with multiple stumps in each cluster. The trees themselves are fine as long as I keep them well trimmed and cut high enough that kids dont get attacked by the thorns.

My issue is in the spaces between the trees there are innumerable new sproutlings of the Osage complete with the thorns of doom! They are crazy and are constantly scratching the kids and looking rather poor in my yard (yard is not big ~1/4 acre).

My question is how can I keep the trees alive but prevent trees from making its new sproutlings from the roots? I'd love to clean up that area, lay down a ground tarp and mulch or plant some ground cover plants in the area (Hosta, Pachysandra, etc.) but those sprouts are completely overwhelming and incessant. I'd love a one time or once yearly treatment for this if possible.

Ideas? Thanks in advance.

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