GG

I have three Liberty Elms - disease resistant elms, Jeff - that I  
planted as whips in 1999.  The biggest one is over 30 fee tall and  
about 6 inches in diameter.  They are thriving, but this morning I  
noticed something.

There are a lot of new leaves on the ground around the base of all  
three.  Each piece on the ground is the new growth for the year,  
about 2-4 inches long, with about a half dozen leaves on it.  The  
base of each little stalk shows sign of having been bitten off. It  
looks like something is biting off the new leaves.

Any ideas??

Ed Minch
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Do you have a lot of squirrels or chipmunks around?  If they are low on
food, they like the new, fresh growth stuff.  

Fix??  Got a cat?

 

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 >Michele Minch
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 >Subject: [OldTools] Elm tree Problem
 >
 >GG
 >
 >I have three Liberty Elms - disease resistant elms, Jeff - that I  
 >planted as whips in 1999.  The biggest one is over 30 fee tall and  
 >about 6 inches in diameter.  They are thriving, but this morning I  
 >noticed something.
 >
 >There are a lot of new leaves on the ground around the base of all  
 >three.  Each piece on the ground is the new growth for the year,  
 >about 2-4 inches long, with about a half dozen leaves on it.  The  
 >base of each little stalk shows sign of having been bitten off. It  
 >looks like something is biting off the new leaves.
 >
 >Any ideas??
 >
 >Ed Minch
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On 3 May 2006 at 6:30, Michele Minch wrote:

> GG
> 
> I have three Liberty Elms - disease resistant elms, Jeff - that I  
> planted as whips in 1999.  The biggest one is over 30 fee tall and  
> about 6 inches in diameter.  They are thriving, but this morning I  
> noticed something.
> 
> There are a lot of new leaves on the ground around the base of all  
> three.  Each piece on the ground is the new growth for the year,  
> about 2-4 inches long, with about a half dozen leaves on it.  The  
> base of each little stalk shows sign of having been bitten off. It  
> looks like something is biting off the new leaves.
> 
> Any ideas??
> 
 
   County extension office? Local nursery?

_____________

Spike Cornelius
PDX - Crazy for Shavings

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Michele and other infested GGs
Gary's onto the truth. Look up into your tree for squirrels. They  
start making nests this time of year to have their young-uns. Each  
spring I'm forced to stop them before they completely strip the  
foliage from my big silver maple in the back yard.

It's a good time to get rid of the pests before they have a brood.  
I'm not advocating any particular method. Myself? I prefer to catch  
them in luxuriously appointed and food-filled traps. Then I hire a  
limo for them out to the suburbs where they are released gently and  
can chomp on all the new growth they want. Unfortunately, they're  
just rats, so they sometimes bribe the driver and return. That's when  
I lightly, gently and with great pureness of heart kill them.

Sorry,
Wes

On May 3, 2006, at 5:30 AM, Michele Minch wrote:
>
> There are a lot of new leaves on the ground around the base of all  
> three.  Each piece on the ground is the new growth for the year,  
> about 2-4 inches long, with about a half dozen leaves on it.  The  
> base of each little stalk shows sign of having been bitten off. It  
> looks like something is biting off the new leaves.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Ed Minch
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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:02, Yarrow, Gary wrote:
> Do you have a lot of squirrels or chipmunks around?  If they are low
> on food, they like the new, fresh growth stuff.

and they don't need to be real low on food.  We have a fine crop of 
squirrels every year and I see them, each spring, tasting new shoots and 
leafs.  Doesn't seem to hurt the trees, from what I've seen.  

> Fix??  Got a cat?
>

Young cat, might be a temp fix.  We've got fat squirrels and fat cats.

Marv    in Lex, KY  enjoying spring and 2 new cats

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> Look up into your tree for squirrels.

GG

Although I haven't actually seen them up there, the general consensus  
of knowledgable galoots is that there are critters in them trees.  I  
guess I will keep my eyes opena nd cross my fingers and see what  
happens.

Thanks to all who responded

Ed Minch
trying to grow future windsor chairs.

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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 17:20, Wes G wrote:
> Gary's onto the truth. Look up into your tree for squirrels. They  
> start making nests this time of year to have their young-uns. Each  
> spring I'm forced to stop them before they completely strip the  
> foliage from my big silver maple in the back yard.
>
> It's a good time to get rid of the pests before they have a brood.  
> I'm not advocating any particular method. Myself? I prefer to catch  
> them in luxuriously appointed and food-filled traps. Then I hire a  
> limo for them out to the suburbs where they are released gently and  
> can chomp on all the new growth they want. Unfortunately, they're  
> just rats, so they sometimes bribe the driver and return. That's when
>   I lightly, gently and with great pureness of heart kill them.

Story here is that some guy here was hauling em out to the burbs one day
and met a guy walking toward him with a cage full.  Guy said he trapped
em round there and took em down town and ...

Marv in Lex, KY

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>On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:02, Yarrow, Gary wrote:
>>  Do you have a lot of squirrels or chipmunks around?  If they are low
>>  on food, they like the new, fresh growth stuff.
>
>and they don't need to be real low on food.  We have a fine crop of
>squirrels every year and I see them, each spring, tasting new shoots and
>leafs.  Doesn't seem to hurt the trees, from what I've seen. 
>
>>  Fix??  Got a cat?
>>
>
>Young cat, might be a temp fix.  We've got fat squirrels and fat cats.
>
>Marv    in Lex, KY  enjoying spring and 2 new cats

Over here in the UK we have way too many of your squirrels and not 
enough of our own, but anyway. When we lived in suburban London we 
had squirrels in the garden and the neighbour had a cat. The 
squirrels were wont to sit on the fence between our places and peer 
into our kitchen (the kids liked feeding them nuts). One morning the 
squirrel had given up its 'look I'm cute, feed me' act on the fence 
and was wandering off along the top of said fence. Now next door's 
cat leaps onto the fence and decides that the classic 'cat chases 
rodent' thing is happening and indeed it does, until the squirrel 
decides otherwise, does a 180 handbrake turn, up goes the tail, it 
bristles, rest of squirrel bristles. Cat screeches to a halt, thinks 
'this isn't going to script', eyes belligerent rodent and decides 
that ones that fight back are no fun. So in true cat style it 
nonchalantly hops off the fence projecting 'I wasn't chasing anybody' 
and the squirrel progresses along the fence before transferring to 
the oak that swathed the shed.

Moral: don't rely on cats to remove squirrels, harass maybe at most.

Peter
Who having drilled 24 holes through mortises and 24 slightly offset 
holes in tenons* goes out to get more 10mm# dowel for pegs as I 
calculate I don't have enough. I can get 9mm, I can get 12mm but 10mm 
cannot be found, but I have already drilled the holes... Maybe the 
universe is trying to tell me it is time to get a lathe and learn to 
use it.

*Just to drag things slightly on topic.
#I grew up in New Zealand and think in metric, also so does the EU.
-- 
Dundee, Scotland.

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