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Ash tree saplings

GINNIE2GINNIE2 Posts: 3
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Every year my front garden is inundated with ash saplings, ranging from small to large. I find them when they are about 3" high, if I'm lucky.  If not I find them among my shrubs 3 - 4 feet high. what can I put on them to kill them.  I can pull out as many a 15 at a time.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Only 15 image

    I have these and field maple, sycamore and Norway Maple, though the parent tree has been gone for a couple of years. I pull them out as babies, if not, I dig them out when the ground is wet, If I leave them too long I excavate a bit and cut them off below ground.

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    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • mushermusher Posts: 389

    I first notice them when they pop out of the top of the privets.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Sounds about right musher There's a 10foot sycamore emerging from the top of an 8 foot viburnum. That may be beyond extraction, cut back onlyimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • geum keenbutgreengeum keenbutgreen Posts: 508

    I've got a twenty foot laburnum (spindly twiggy thing that it is) emerging from the highest, thickest corner of my laurel hedge. Pretty sure it's not meant to be there...

  • GINNIE2GINNIE2 Posts: 3

    Thank you for your comments.  At least I don't feel so alone.  I will battle on!

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