autumn olive

[cbx46]

Anyone ever plant or know about autumn olive? I heard its unstoppable.

[SplitG2]

20 years ago it was promoted by wildlife agencies to plant it. Now it's considered invasive and don't plant it.

[cbx46]

If it provides food and cover for wild life that's all I care about.

[SplitG2]

Than it's a perfect fit for you. Do you have any farms around you? What you plant on your property may have severe issues for your neighbors?

[SplitG2]

I wanted to plant AO but planted native brush trees like dogwood, chokeberry, service berry, button bush, arrowwood, blackhaw and wild plum to name a few.

[growalot]

Autumn olive is not only invasive but it is HELL on tractor tires...for it does get short stem growth that is pointed and tough like thorns...we have had to have the tractor tire guy come up a few times...and it was autumn olive he found in the tire....I'm talking a 35 hrs JD tire...I'd look into something different and at all cost avoid buck thorn....

[cbx46]

I just planted 25 of each red oak, white pine, persimmon, wild plum , black gum, black cherry, elderberry, blackberry,hazelnut. You mentioned wildplum how do they do?

[SplitG2]

Wild plum do great.

[Fishon]

Its great if you want it to take over all of your land. It gets red berries in the fall, the birds eat them and spread them all over. They smell great in the spring time.

[growalot]

they also spread by roots...but I really like ours....just mow around them...and very pretty in the spring....You'll want to protect all of those from rodents...I use blk drain pipe I cut length wise...just in case I forget to remove it...that's happened..... Remember the persimmon break dormancy very late and can some times rarley not break at all the first year planted

[Setters4life]

20 years ago it was promoted by wildlife agencies to plant it. Now it's considered invasive and don't plant it.

So true. In New Jersey, it has become the bane of the state's WMA's. Concerted efforts the last few years have been made by the state to eradicate, or at least curtail its growth in many areas by burning and spraying.

[growalot]

We drove down to Watkins glen for brunch Sunday...and I had a raging head ache by the time we got home...all the Autumn Olive was in full bloom and the smell and pollen just tore me up...there wasn't any place along the road it wasn't growing

[landtracdeerhunter]

We have it. Seems to like lighter acid soils better the way it grows here, but I could be wrong on that. Doesn't spread all that well either, at least in this area. The other thing that seems strange, the berries hang there, sometimes all winter into the next spring, nothing eats them. Don't think ours has thorns.

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Edited May 17, 2012 by landtracdeerhunter

[growalot]

Yep thats ours...with speckling ion the berry...they are actually tasty when ripe ,,,but would never purposely plant them...not thorns but stem growths as pointed as thorns...I get some pics later and post

[landtracdeerhunter]

Found some autumn olive on the farm today. Growing on the knoll.