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| I have 12-15 amur maples in a boulevard area. They look nice, but they are not well-behaved. They seem to drop seeds year-round. Anyway, one area of the lawn is bad -- there are hundreds of seedlings and they aren't kind to the lawn. What would you all recommend for dealing with this? Thanks |
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| Mow 'em? Trees generally don't tolerate mowing well. |
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| I have numerous large, mature maples. I did a sample count and then multiplied and determined that I have about 30,000 maple seedlings in my one acre lawn. I've been just mowing them for over 25 years and have never had one make it through May. Just mow and ignore. |
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| Any chance that Scott's 2-Plus turf builder would wipe them out? |
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| The following quote is from another thread, but I wanted to put it here to keep it in the correct subject: "My main problem is Amur Maple seedlings covering a huge portion of my front yard. The lawn in that area is not very green or thick, and I wonder if the seedlings are robbing the lawn of nutrients. I tried some Weed-B-Gon tonight, which previously worked wonders for creeping charlie, but was not kind to the lawn. I need something that isn't going to totally wipe out the lawn." reply: "If you read the label on Weed B Gone and follow the directions you shouldn't have problems. Not sure why you feel the need to treat tree seedlings as they will disappear after a few mowings. I get a lot of sycamore seedlings every spring, I don't worry about them, and they disappear in due time. The only way they would be robbing the lawn of nutrients if there were thousands of them throughout the lawn." --- Well, it's been several mowings and the amur maple seedlings have not disappeared. They don't appear to be growing much in height, but they aren't going away. Other suggestions? I don't want to apply Weed-B-Gon to the entire lawn. |
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