What’s your recommended insecticide? I’ve tried PureCrop 1 but I think I may have messed up timing or frequency because I still got the plum curculio and stink bugs pretty bad. Trying Surround next year. No brown rot or other diseases observed yet at least.
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A large part of Portugal is eucalyptus forest, used for making toilet paper and for firewood. It’s non-native here, supports no wildlife at all, has almost no undergrowth, is extremely flammable, and creates big water shortages as it evaporates crazy amounts of water. When a eucalyptus forest burns down, the wood is still usable for toilet paper, but regardless of that the owner gets money as a compensation. This triggers land owners to set their eucalyptus farms on fire purposely. Everywhere you go, you see eucalyptus, and still in a rapid pace more remaining oak forests are being cut down to plant even more eucalyptus. After a few harvests the soil is depleted of all nutrients. This summer we had big fires that came dangerously close to our land. I can’t stand the smell of eucalyptus anymore.
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Yes, eucalyptus is the kraken. Absolutely no forest life, just large, decaying, leaves. And Portugal used to be oak country. No surprise it’s virtually impossible to get hold of wood for construction projects. Not a 2by4, nothing. Just these toilet paper trees everywhere.
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Among trees I have growing myself, probably male mulberries but they just take up space in my yard without producing any fruit (I’ll be cutting them down to make more room soon). For ones other people grow it’s probably junipers because they’re required for cedar apple rust to be able to infect fruit (it has to alternate hosts in order to spread)
black willow. i have huge ones ringing my property that constantly shed branches ,if theres even a moderate breeze.
In my current home, it was the Ash tree, it wrecked my paver patio 50 feet away! Nothing grew in my backyard within a 100 foot radius. As soon as I cut it down, all of my backyard trees and plants started growing gangbusters.
In my previous home, it was a trio of Poplar trees.
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lombardy poplars are the
worst.
Not sure which I hate most… thorny honeylocust or sweetgum, but boxelder and green ash are moving up the charts.
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No contest Chinese tallow tree they grow fast and everywhere. Almost impossible to remove. I’ve been fighting one in the middle of one of my Blueberry bushes for a while now.
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Huisache. (Sweet acacia) I suspect it’s the demonic love child of mesquite and cactus, covered in needle-sharp thorns. It is more of a bush but mature ones are small trees sometimes used as specimen trees. But it spreads really fast I have seen it overtake pastures and ruin them. It’s hard to kill due to incredible root depth. Mesquite wood is beautiful but I’m not sure Huisache has any redeeming quality other than sweet smell of blooms.
It was a tree of heaven, I couldn’t get rid of it. I finally cut it down and put a truck load of dirt on top of the stump. that was 10 years ago and haven’t seen any sign of it since. Knock on Wood.
CALLERY TREES!!! They are horrible nuisance here.
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Mulberry. Love the fruit, love the tree, absolutely hate the timing. Drops everything at once, stains everything within a 10 foot radius, and the birds find it before you do. Every year I tell myself I’ll net it properly and every year I don’t.
Buckthorn is the bane here
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Harrison has an annoying straight up growth habit that is giving me a bit of work to train. My most hated tree is the neighborhood bradford pears. They are all riddled with fireblight and eager to spread it. I wish more people would take advantage of the states bounty and remove them in exchange for free natives.
Chinese Tallow here also in SW Louisiana. Very invasive, but the honey producers love it. Also, Multiflora rose, also terrible for pastureland.