This week's video is about the highly invasive multiflora rose. This is a plant that was promoted back in the day for everything - erosion control, living fence, wildlife habitat projects and highway edging. By the time people figured out it was a terrible idea to plant this stuff it was too late and it is now everywhere in eastern North America.

Hope you find it interesting! Let me know what you thought of the video.

Anthony

Annoying invasive maybe, but is superb cover and feed for rabbits

A great living fence for sure

About 50 years ago I shot a bobwhite quail that fell in a multiflora fence row. Our bird dog could see and smell the dead bird but was unable to retrieve it because of the thick thorns. I think we retrieved it with a long stick.

They are easy enough to kill, cut and treat stump and burning knocks them back and will out right kill smaller ones.

It's a menace

Back in the 50's the Iowa Conservation Commission promoted them big time. We planted a row on our farm. Then all of a sudden they were declared a noxious pest.. So Dad tore them out.

I do not know why it is so invasive But I think the person that planted the first plants that have created the problem we now have should be brought back to life and be forced to hunt and run a trapline like many of us now end up having to do because the stuff grows everywhere

This was planted in the thumb of Michigan for live fences. A large land owner pastured cattle and he planted this junk everywhere. This would have in the 1940s. It is now all over.

I’m in a continual war eradicating this junk and even worse autumn olive

I had a bad problem in a small pasture, I rented it to my Amish neighbor for his mules. The mules really put a hurt on it and with a little extra control the next season , I got rid of it.

Dirty D - It is not hard to kill, but there is a ton of it in my area. Trying to get to where I can burn on my place more, but it is a work in progress.

Diggerman - Livestock will eat the stuff, especially goats, mules and donkeys and are a great way to set it back so it can be taken out easily with herbicide.

Thanks to everyone who checked it out!

Another good one Anthony. Thanks.

Thanks K-zoo!

Good video. I watched your clip on poison hemlock. I found I had some growing along the highway in front of the house. Sprayed it twice last month on warm days. No more green growth!

Bigbrownie - Thanks! I have a bunch I need to get sprayed. They went through and mulched all of the shrubs growing along the roadside and with the sun on the ground the hemlock is sprouting like crazy.

We had that stuff here in WV and the way we got rid of it was to twist and wind a chain through the Bases and then used a Tractor to pull it up. Then we burned it.

Burning is hard, if even possible, to do on most properties in my area