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What are your favorite honeysuckle removal tools?

 
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I'm in zone 6b, in the first year on 5 acres, this season is mostly about just observing and removing invasives as time allows.

Over winter I cut a bunch of honeysuckle at the ground, knowing that it would pop up this spring. As I'm walking the property I've found that this flooring scraper has been fantastic at knocking down the shoots. The blade is double sided and easy to sharpen. If I need a replacement, or even want to change the cutter shape, its just some flat stock clamped in place. I know you can poison the roots, but I'm hoping to use little to no herbicides anywhere around here.

What are your favorite de-honeysuckling tools? Ive seen high-lift jacks, spud bars, slash and burn.
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What kind of honeysuckle is this? I notice that the common bush hedge honeysuckle (L. tatarica complex) dies out when the trees grow in. The native L. canadensis is tolerant of shade. This kind seems like neither by the leaves, but perhaps another kind of bush honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle has some excellent medicinal properties in my experience. I harvest the bark, leaves, twigs, and flowers for tea.
 
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While I don't recognize the exact variety of bush honeysuckle, I'm sure it's one of the extremely invasive ones. In the midwest we have something called the Amber honeysuckle, (Lonicera maackii), that will actually form a true monoculture under trees and kill all natives where it's established. They are bad news.  Normally most non natives have some benefits and aren't as bad as people say, but honeysuckles are an exception.

Anyways, I have a tiny property and I literally just prune them off with normal pruners. If you keep doing that they eventually starve and die.
 
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