We’ve got three large ash trees growing out of our back deck. Last fall they dropped approximately one metric tonne of seeds, many of which slipped through the deck boards. They’ve sprouted. Now I’m looking at seedlings as dense as a lawn, each one is certain it will be the one to blast through the deck. I should probably get under there with the Roundup before it gets out of hand…
Up here in Maine/New Hampshire it’s Rock (Sugar) Maple and Red Maple, I have a metric crapton of seedlings around the border of the house and I need to spend some time pulling them up
how well do seedlings transplant, I hate to throw out potential trees, let them grow for a bit and free kindling, let them grow a little more, and sapling trunks for walking sticks and firewood, rock maple is an extremely hard and dense wood and is a great firewood
For ash trees all you have to do is wait.
New house to us, I’ve never dealt with them before. Are you suggesting they are unlikely to make it through the summer? Otherwise I may go under there with a couple egg cartons and capture some seedlings before launching a chem strike on the others.
Sorry for the confusion, yes you’re going to have to deal with the seedlings. I was more commenting on how the Emerald Ash Borer has been obliterating ash populations sense it’s discovery in in North America in the early 2000’s. I really don’t know where you’re located but I would think about planting a few more trees of other species around the property soon, to give them time to grow.
Ailanthus and sugar maple seedlings dominate here. If I didn’t mow the lawn I’d have a dense forest of spindly maples in no time.
Joe-pye weed and multiflora rose have an amazing reproductive capacity also.