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Mulberry bush

09/03/2008 7:55 AM

I have three mulberry bushes growing inbetween a chain link fence. the more i prune the more branches grow. any ideas on how to kill the ********.

I heard driving copper nails into trees will kill them. will it kill the ******** mulberries?

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Re: Mulberry bush

09/03/2008 8:02 AM

Chill out and enjoy the free fruit...
Trees are beautiful...I have an idiot neighbour who complains when the blossom falls...complains when the leaves fall...I think she'd like to live in a multistorey carpark or something...<slaps furry head with paw>

Do a deal with the tree...you don't kill it...it won't kill you.

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09/04/2008 4:25 PM

I AM A TREE LOVER IN FACT I BELONG TO THE NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION. BUT THIS "BUSH" NOT A TREE IS A NUSANCE. GROWING THRU A CHAIN LINK FENCE EVEN MAKES IT UGLIER. FRUIT IS NOT EDIBLE.WHAT THERE IS OF IT.

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09/05/2008 3:25 AM

ok...ok...don't shout already...

(maybe the lack of Mullberry fruit has effected your sense of humour .)

Peace and chill
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Re: Mulberry bush

09/03/2008 8:23 AM

Round up brush treatment. Works great. I have a constant problem with a variety of trees seeking refuge in my fence and tearing it up, but Round up kill them and a regular treatment keeps them gone.

Steve, tree hater (when they are in my fence).

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Re: Mulberry bush

09/03/2008 10:11 AM

I have a similar problem with squirrel-sown pecan trees. If you really want to kill it, cut it off at the ground, cover the area with about 1/4 inch of newspaper, or black plastic, then some rocks. In a year it will be utterly dead, no poisons required.

If you just want to thin it, just whack it off at the ground once a year.

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Re: Mulberry bush

09/03/2008 10:27 AM

I had a problem with honeysuckle Grrrrrrrrr

Several years ago I talked my neighbours in to helping out with it.

We all stood around to put out any fires and I doused it with paraffin and burnt it where it stood.

It was the only humane way to kill it - honest!!

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09/04/2008 9:45 AM

Just because we performed this rite at midnight, on the summer solstice, wearing nothing and chanting dancing rould the honeysuckle, we were arrested!!!

Killed the honeysuckle though

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09/03/2008 5:16 PM

Copper sulfate.

"Better things for better living through chemistry" was what they were advertising on TV when i was a kid...

milo

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