Dchall_San_Antonio wrote:
Within Reason, are you saying the Cedar Eater approach or plucking the trees out of the ground and grinding them to mulch will not work or that it is expensive?
Dchall, their typical mulching unit, will not kill a mesquite, it justmakes the land "look" brush free for a while, but then you end up with a very multi-stemmed plant, that is more of a problem, then in its original form.
Plucking the trees out of the ground works great, but there are disadvantages.
You typically end up with a large divot in the ground after grubbing. Also, the ground disturbance to stimulate the germination of other undesirable weeds, as well as has a tendency to to be a new found location of a prickly pear cactus.
Regardless, the grubbing works to kill the mesquite, but the size machine they run, is much too large for a small sapling infestation. Just far too much ground disturbance for the size tree being controlled. For large trees, I think their excavation method is great!
They didn't always have their grubbing equipment, and would used to just "mulch" mesquite, that is a bad idea, if your are actually wanting rid of the mesquite.