Re-Growth

Mister Honeysuckle has seen it all and believes the most cost effective way to remove a honeysuckle infestation in urban and surburban 'disturbed' areas (which most of it is), is to first remove all the smaller ones that you can manually with the honeysuckle popper, then saw off and kill the stumps of the larger ones. After that, just wait and see what happens next year.

The ground disturbance created by manually removing the small stumps unleashes the seed bank and you will get a lot of new vegetation, most good, some bad. One really good thing is new tree seedlings. The bad is usually garlic mustard which you will attack quickly as part of your restoration schedule.  READ MORE