2peas 0 Report post Posted May 7, 2014 Help! Our front lawn has 2 huge "naturalized" beds that have been infested with thousands of Norway maple seedlings so thick that it looks like ground cover! We don't use herbicides, so have already spent hours hand weeding. Even the mulch and thick leaves from last Fall has not stopped them although there are fewer in those areas. Will they all mature if we can't get to them? Are there any other ways to deal with them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denny144 0 Report post Posted June 3, 2014 I've never been able to stand it long enough to know if they would all grow but I would imagine that you'd end up with some spindly survivors. What I typically do early on before adding a new layer of mulch is to take my hoe and repeatedly drag it across the ground. That will either pull the seedlings out of the ground or mangle them enough that they die. Several rounds of this a few days apart gets most of them so I don't do much hand weeding. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steven Nikkila 32 Report post Posted June 3, 2014 Hoe the seedlings! Or do what a friend of ours did, have a party and tell the guests the admission fee is a bag, small sandwich provided by you, of maple seedlings gets them in. It worked for them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
