Sycamore seeds dropping already!

[santas_spotty_pony]

I have a sycamore tree in one of my summer paddocks - I only this part of the field in the summer partly for this reason… but the damn seeds have started dropping in July! I think y eh cold weather last week has confused to tree and it thinks it’s Autumn! So if anybody has sycamore trees around your grazing keep a look out for seeds falling.

I’ve fenced off the area this evening - luckily it’s not a huge amount of grazing lost and not an area they tend to eat in much anyway!

 

[HappyHollyDays]

I have 5 trees along the back of my track and they fall from June onwards every year. I have to close it off until they have all fallen and then I do a mega clean up and they are allowed back on it.

 

[santas_spotty_pony]

I have 5 trees along the back of my track and they fall from June onwards every year. I have to close it off until they have all fallen and then I do a mega clean up and they are allowed back on it.

How do you clean up? Mow it or rake it? I attempted raking tonight before I fenced it off as they were dropping as I was raking and there was no way I could get them all.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

I've been checking all the trees, looks like it's going to be a mast year for acorns, loads of little green beads on the oak trees!

 

[HappyHollyDays]

How do you clean up? Mow it or rake it? I attempted raking tonight before I fenced it off as they were dropping as I was raking and there was no way I could get them all.

I use a leaf blower to get them into the same general area then I rake them and put them in a feed bag and burn the lot. Once I’ve done that I mow with the collector box so if any have seeded they are cut.

 

[3OldPonies]

I've noticed some coming down off the three on one edge of my field. Not many yet, but looks like there are masses up there. At the moment just getting a handful of so and a fair few 'wings' where the parakeets are getting tucked in!

Used a lawn rake last year to get them, then pulled any that germinated. Needless to say that bit was fenced off until cleared.