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	Name:	MrHodja -
	Subject:	Serious Answer
	Date:	8/23/2009 9:31:32 PM

I share your landscaper's opinion of the Hackberry, also known locally as a sugarberry tree. Our property at one time long ago was a dairy farm, and there was a barbed wire fence that ran from the front of our property to the back, and someone planted the hackberrys along the fence line. The tree line actually kind of splits the property into a 100X722 lot and a 200X722 lot.

So I have a 722 foot line of hackberrys, spread about 10-15 feet apart. The danm things send roots for what seems like miles, and the roots send shoots up everywhere. Mowing takes care of the shoots in the open area, but I am forever cutting out hackberry saplings that grow up into our decent shrubs and plants.

I guess the hackberry is the tree version of kudzu.....