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Sycamore seeds

SarahKateSarahKate Posts: 37
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How do all you gardeners cope with sycamore seeds.?   With trees shedding them all over my garden each year I have them growing everywhere as it is impossible to gather them all up.     Do squirrels or birds eat them?   I have fed them into compost bins along with their leaves but am not sure that this is the thing to do.  
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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Same as we do with the Ash seedlings. Pull them up when they are small and dig them up when we miss them.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I wouldn't put them into compost bins, unless you want a forest next year.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    And go over them with the lawnmower if they're in the grass.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SarahKateSarahKate Posts: 37
    Thank you for your replies - but do squirrels and/or birds eat them?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I used to just mow them.
    I don't think they get eaten, Virginia, but I could be wrong.
    They're not really like acorns or other 'nuts' and the little wings might make it tricky unless they have knives and forks  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ive seen fieldmice take them. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're handy with cutlery, those mice,  Dove  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • SarahKateSarahKate Posts: 37
    Encouraging to hear that at least field mice find them tasty.    I was rather hoping squirrels might too as I have seen squirrels run along the top of the fence into my neighbour's apple tree and eat the tiny green apples.    Plenty of squirrels about here.!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Plenty of squirrels in my part of Devon too, Virginia,   They scoff the bird food, don’t think they eat the tree seeds. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Johnprescott929Johnprescott929 Posts: 18
    I would have loved some of those seedlings. Love trees in pots! 
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