How to Remove Suckers from Trees and Shrubs by The Gardening Tutor-Mary Frost
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- In this video we use a beautiful shrub called Corylus avellana 'Contorta', also known as Harry Lauder's Walking Stick, to demonstrate how to remove suckers from trees and shrubs. Watch to the end for more photos and extra tips.
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Even Prince gets thumbs down. Ha! I'm in good company there. :) Thank you for sticking up for me! -mary
Very helpful
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I met you while you were working on my neighbor’s yard. I subscribed to your site.
Yes, I remember you Karen. That's great! Hope you find the sites helpful. -mary
Hi Everybody! Just putting a comment here to test as your comments are not showing up on my end. Thanks for watching!
I love Harry Lauder's walking stick!!!
Yah, me too!
Thanks
I moved here 4 years ago and I have a small weeping tree with many, many suckers each year. I cut them off but it's hard to get at them where it's planted in a raised bed. They keep coming back. Anyway, thanks for this video and I will see if I can damage the suckers.
Thank you for watching Sandra. Suckers will always come back on a plant prone to them. Grafted trees and shrubs (your weeping variety is most likely grafted) do tend to sucker the most. There is a product that you may want to check out. I have not used it but it is called Sucker Stop. it is Not Systemic, it works by burning the suckers. Maybe this can help. Getting suckers while they are young and tender is key (as you've probably figured out by now). Best, mary
I'm wondering if this would work for my plum tree. . . They come up all over the yard not just by the trunk. . .
Yes, if they are suckers and not seedlings that could be pulled out completely. If they are suckers from the roots you can cut them close to the ground and smash them hard with a hammer! Ha! Really, I'm not kidding. This is what is done especially for suckering trees that are growing in lawns. -m
Thank you.
You're welcome Sharon. Thanks for watching! -mary
This was great information on tree suckers. Question, after damaging them, can I cover them and plant flowers around the tree?
The suckers will most likely always come back even with removing as the video shows. But removing them this way slows down the suckers instead of invigorating more suckering by giving it a clean cut. Most likely the suckers would grow up through any plants that get planted at the base of the tree/shrub but planting farther out may work fine. -mary