A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2004 Roots, grrrrrrrrrrrrr

I've just purchased a new home and am attempting to
put a garden in, but getting the maple shoot roots
out is almost impossible by hand. Does anyone have any hints for removing these roots? Is there some "machinery" I could rent that would make it easier?? Help!

I have maple seedlings all over the place, I am always pulling them & mowing them down. I would think if the roots are giving you that much trouble they must be more like small trees growing everywhere, because the seedlings are pretty easy to pull out by hand. You could use a roto-tiller/cultivator or a ground hog hand tool.

I'd sure love to have the problem of maple shoots - - anyone want to trade maple for say - mesquite? Now - there can be an issue - the rooting system on mesquite - if it's not where you want it - - get it young!

My maples from Arbor don't seem to be going to make it. But I'm still nursing them.

Jon

I'm mailing your box out to you Monday morning Jon...want me to throw a few maple seedlings in? I have some a foot tall or more. I have more maple trees trying to grow than I know what to do with:) Chrissy

Oh Chrissy,
You beat me to it,

Jon, I'll see you Chrissy's amount
and double it!!

I still have my mother's landscaped fence
to "PLUCK", how many do you want!!!?????
(There's only about 4,0000000000000000)

Weezie

Sorry I didn't get to this until now. I'd love the maples. Now admittedly - this is not the most conducive environment for them - - but I figure with some TLC I should be able to get them to grow. Heck -- I got a giant sequoia in the ground and it is making a comeback - after the shock of transplanting it.

I was doing the figuring today - - I actually have about 10 acres - between mom, aunt/uncle, mom's bf, and my place.

Chrissy - - how is the creosote holding out?????

Smiles to Wheezie

6871 Carrol Cir
Pahrump, NV 89060

Just tell me what you might like in return.

Jon

Hey Jon,
Wayyyyyyyyy more than happy to send you some,
1 question?????
What zone are you in???????

Will the maple do okay where you are???
I think it needs some type of cold to
be a good tree?????????????????????????

Do you know???

I know for like maple sugar, there has to be
a cold, dormant period, with warming days and cold nights.....???

What do you think??????

I'm off to go to the auction and then lunch and pick my kid up from school, won't be back until my time 4:00pm, will look up info on it when I come back!!!

Wayyyyyyyyyyy more than happy to send them....
1, 2, 3, hundred???

I will be getting after them very shortly,
And will look up growing info!

Weezie

Hi. According to the Arbor Society they should grow here (Arbor Society sets us as zone 8). According to Sunset's "Western Garden Book" which uses its own zone charting (1 - 24, H1, H2) to account for microclimates, I am in zone 10.

(Anyone reading this and has the book - I'm just north of the minor 1A zone, while Vegas is in 11.)

Some species of maple are zoned into zone 10, while others stop at 9 and resume at 14 and a few don't even make it to 9. Sugar maples are zoned for 10, while red is zone 9.

We definitely get cold here - into the high 20s and low 30s in the winter - though days will warm up more than a little - sometimes hitting the 60s and 70s during the winter. On the other hand - - summers are H O T. Where I am, we have a number of days that get dustings of snow - but the snow doesn't stick around.

Jon