OT..Getting rid of sumac

RickieBlue · Mar 12, 2013

Is there any good ways to get rid of sumac trees? We have a bunch in an area next to a creek I would like to get rid of but they continue to come up after I pull them up............kinda sick of them........Thanks for any ideas!

Erik Ks farmer · Mar 12, 2013

Spray them with Remedy (herbicide), they must be leafed out and actively growing.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 12, 2013

I spray them with 2,4,D or even Weed-B-Gone works
good. Easy to kill but if you get poison ivy stay
away from the leaves and sap.

mark us · Mar 12, 2013

usually the second week in june just spray with 2-4d and they'll be dead and gone. had an old hay field that had been allowed to infest with them, thick, sprayed them waited awile till they were good and dead then rotary mowed them to the ground. fertilized next year after a soil sample and had good hay. main thing is to NOT cut them off ahead of time, like the fall before, or they will come back. they have to have some growth to them when you spray or you are wasting your time.

GregCO · Mar 12, 2013

Not sure how you get rid of them. I planted a bunch 20 years ago and they have gone nuts. The guy next door set them on fire one year burning fence lines and they came back better then ever.

Greg F.

FBH44 · Mar 13, 2013

I've also found if you can cut them, mow them, and keep mowing over the srpouts, they'll eventually die off.

showcrop · Mar 13, 2013

Their roots are just under the ground surface. You can push them roots and all easily into a pile to burn with your loader. Then just go after the small plants that are left with 2-4d, they die easily.

Erik Ks farmer · Mar 13, 2013

sounds like a different kind of sumac than I fight, I have never killed it easily. Don't waist your time with 2-4d, and yes mowing it repeatedly works if you want to spend the next 5 years fighting it. Spray it with remedy and be done.

ss55 · Mar 13, 2013

It takes two to three years to starve the root enough that they die. If I had to do it again I'd spray the live plants to get some killing herbicide into the roots for a few weeks before cutting the trees. Frequent mowing after that prevents the roots from getting enough nutrients.

Be careful handling any part of the plants including the roots. The sap gave me an itchy rash that lasted almost two weeks, itched worse than heavy mosquito bites.

RickieBlue · Mar 13, 2013

Thanks for all the Great Advice!!!

Anonymous-0 · Mar 13, 2013

I cut them off with a chainsaw on the end of a weedeater, then paint the stump with 50% A.I. Roundup. Pure Roundup is 41% A.I., so 20% A.I. is what you want to shoot for.

OT..Getting rid of sumac

RickieBlue

Member

Erik Ks farmer

Well-known Member

Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

mark us

Member

GregCO

Member

FBH44

Well-known Member

showcrop

Well-known Member

Erik Ks farmer

Well-known Member

ss55

Well-known Member

RickieBlue

Member

Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

Similar threads