Controlling invasive common buckthorn

NCC staff demonstrate manual control of invasive common buckthorn, including introduction, identification, control methods, restoration notes and other considerations.

[TheSuburbanGardenista]

Great video - super helpful info here! 💚 How do you feel about "buckthorn baggies" or covering a cut stump with a heavy duty bag to help kill the tree?

[tomvarga]

Great video, thank you for your work. Would like to see more control methods and identification of invasive plants in the area.

[MylifeofTao]

Thanks for the video! We have lots here along the trails in Saskatchewan. This will help me get rid of them. I plan on using the girdling method in the spring and summer before the berries are mature. Also pulling young plants.

[suneethajayawickrema]

I there any medicinal value in buckthon tree?

[JohnMcNerney]

You comment about removing all of the root when pulling. My understanding is that while Buckthorn will sprout from the stump, it does not root sprout. Do you have some definitve knowledge or documentation that it does, in fact, root sprout?

[miltyway]

Thank you for the video. Together we can get a control over this aggressive plant!

[suneethajayawickrema]

Is there any edicinaj value in buckthon tree?

[StevenSmith-t]

The process is correct but way too tedious if you really have a buckthorn problem. Chemical control is much more efficient.

[kevinberg]

I was told that goats love eating buckthorn and if youkeep moving them around they will graduate defeat them