sycamore trees

moneyistooshorttomention

Very quick query that I cant find the answer to on Google.

How many feet per year do sycamore trees grow please? Am taking an interest because of the number of sycamore seedlings I'm having to pull out from my garden this year.

DaftyDuck

Depends on age, but say a foot or two a year. The seedlings won't survive a hoe if you chop them on a warm, dry day (even in Wales), and it's easy enough to keep them under control. On the lawn just now them. If they do ever get to six inches, just tug, or thwack them in half at soil level with a spade.

Most will just die anyway.

arbrighton

I pull hundreds of sycamore seedlings each spring- they're easy if you get them just as they sprout or one or two pairs of leaves max.

I've a few I missed that I'm going to get OH to spread stump killer on. I don't want another sycamore tree- the one on our land and the selection across the road in the woods are plenty.

Crag30

If you want a couple of thousand, you can come round here and pick your own. Sick of spending my evenings getting rid of the things behind and under our shrubs. :mad:

moneyistooshorttomention

I walked past one of the concrete front gardens round here the other day and spotted a very noticeable number of the seedlings in the cracks between the paving stones and thought "They'll need to get shot of them - or they'll have a front garden full of trees at some point".

Mind you - I'm not planning on making any sympathetic comments to them about it if I spot them in their garden - as I'd much prefer to see a garden full of trees than one full of concrete paving stones personally...

glasgowdan

Why do people spend hours pulling things out by hand when a 15-second spray with systemic biodegradable weed killer does the job?!

Davesnave

glasgowdan wrote: »

Why do people spend hours pulling things out by hand when a 15-second spray with systemic biodegradable weed killer does the job?!

Probably because the seedlings are among plants they wish to keep.

I've never lived near sycamores, but my old Dad's garden used to grow ash seedlings every spring. I once counted how many I pulled from a square metre where they were worst, and it was 54.

Sycamores are fast-growing and not much use for anything, except making violins. Field maples are a decent enough tree for putting where other trees might struggle.

Crag30

This is just some of what I contending with

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And they come from these trees that had seeded themselves that nobody will take responsibilty for, even the local council

arbrighton

Well Glasgow Dan

1) I'm pregnant so probably can't (according to the endless list of don'ts) spray
2) I try not to use chemicals in my garden
3) as stated, they get in between things in the beds. Spray drift = dead borders
4) They're easy and I find it oddly satisfying

Crag: yep, that's my daily haul for about three weeks each spring!

Crag30

arbrighton wrote: »

Well Glasgow Dan

1) I'm pregnant so probably can't (according to the endless list of don'ts) spray
2) I try not to use chemicals in my garden
3) as stated, they get in between things in the beds. Spray drift = dead borders
4) They're easy and I find it oddly satisfying

Crag: yep, that's my daily haul for about three weeks each spring!

What's on the table didn't take an hour, and I'm still climbing behind shrubs and shifting through plants trying to get at them all.

I've stripped one border completely, put down a membrane and replanted some shrubs hopefully to stop them coming through.

I'm sick of spending my evenings after work trying to sort this out.

If only a spray would do :wall:

arbrighton

Mine are mostly done now, just the odd one popping up, in and around my plants I do want.

It does end! (well for this year)