90% sure they are part of the tree, pretty much need to cut clip them all every few weeks during the spring and summer. If there is no way to deal with them that doesn’t involve hurting the tree then i’ll just continue on with the clipping till I die ☺️
by Hugsforpeace
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Only option is, indeed, clipping. They are most likely from the tree.
Since we cannot see the whole tree, is difficult to tell, but maybe the tree is in distress. Check with an arborist.
Why some pavers upside down?
Move your silly little circle of blocks into an oval shape to surround them
That’s one of those pear trees everyone hates kill it and plant something better
Those are called sucker roots. They’re coming out of the roots from that tree. It was originally planted too high, which is why that is happening. They do make a product that you can spray to kill those so they don’t come back without harming the tree.
Remove that blight on the ecosystem and keep cutting them out of the lawn while you grow a need native tree.
Napalm
Oy vey
That tree wants to be a shrub. It’s trying to live within its means.
Pick them as they come up
Get something called “Sucker Stopper” from your local hardware store. It does wonders and realistically the only thing that I know of to get rid of this mess.
These are suckers, just cut them back. They are linked to root system of the tree. I do not recommend spraying them with anything as it may affect the tree.
I take a spade shovel and chop them through the soil. Easier than clipping them down with pruners or even hedge trimmers.
Figure out what’s stressing the tree out but considering it’s in a devil’s strip, it’s probably out of your control anyway. With those it’s usually because the tree has outgrown the space and it’s dripline is over the hard surfaces or because the hard surfaces are constricting root growth. Could really be a combination of both along with competing with the grass for resources.
Get rid of pavers and leave bags of mulch around the base of tree. Cut the center of bags open so floor has the plastic on top and then mulch layer. Spread mulch so it looks nice. Never again!
Pull them out with your hands
Keep cutting them back, never let them got this big again. They are sucking the nutrients from the tree
Try vinegar soap and water spray .. don’t cut them down, spray the entire stock and leaves with the mixture on a nice hot sunny day, repeat for a few days… should kill them
Remove the mulch from the base of the tree
You can’t clip them you have to dig them out if you want to make them slow down at least. That way they only come back once a year
You can cut off the offending root as well. Hopefully it isn’t the whole freaking tree
RTU Sucker stop is the product
Wow, thats a nice tree ring
Hilarious. Are you in Bolingbrook? Looks exactly like the crap in front of my house (although my pavers are oriented correctly). I cut them short the first time but then I just mow over them. Never get more than a couple inches high.
But also the HOA is a complete joke so they aren’t going to do anything.
Take a chainsaw and cut about 4” from the ground all the way through the main trunk.
You should have kept that all mowed down and string trimmed before they got so big. Anyhow that looks like a callery pear just cut it down now before it splits in half.