Slowly making progress on removing aggressive invasives on our mostly wooded, almost 3 acres in NE Ohio. Recently found a young autumn olive- which I haven’t come across before. I don’t think it’s gone to seed yet? I know they are aggressive and I’m glad I found it in a spot I don’t mow and haven’t focused on natives yet. It’s under a walnut tree.
1. What are most effective ways to get rid of autumn olive? Do I need to dig it up and get all the roots or cut close to the base and apply herbicides (which I don’t have- so it would help to know what works best. I usually avoid them except with all the Buckthorn we have a friend who helps paint as I cut the larger ones that we can’t use our puller bear to remove). Would the puller bear work for this? The soil here is dry heavy clay.
2. Also welcoming images, plans, ideas for native scaping beneath walnut trees!
by MysticAlicorn
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At that size you could very easily dig it up. Just need to keep an eye on anything popping back up next year.
Cut and treat like you have been with the buckthorn with undiluted glyphosate or triclopyr.
garlon 4 is a good one. glycophosphate doesn’t actually kill alot of things like buckthorn and honeysuckle.
Digging or the pullerbear would be effective on an olive of this size as long as the roots from the walnut don’t interfere. Otherwise cut stump treatment with glyphosate or triclopyr works too!
You also have a multiflora rose in the foreground of your photo that should be pulled out!
I missed the part about the Pullerbear. Yes it will absolutely pull these. I love mine and use it for so much at this size and even bigger.
Good luck. My property is overrun with those damn things.
I’ve cut down a lot of autumn olive. Maybe I’m missing something but this doesn’t look like autumn olive to me. Where are the wicked thorns and the beige color on young stems?