WARNING: DO NOT plant the Asian / Russian white or paper Mulberries! They are devastatingly invasive! You CANNOT KILL THEM! The roots spread when you try they take over EVERYTHING! One tiny piece of root destroys your compost pile and leaf mould. Mulberry (Trees from the Moraceae Morus family) 25.8 Hickory, Bitternut (Carya cordiformis) 26.7ġ0. Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) 26.7Ĩ. Locust, Black (Robinia pseudoacacia) 27.9ħ. Oddly neither Ash nor Elm are included, however, I cannot grow either tree because of Dutch Elm disease and Emerald Ash borer, which decimated all trees near me (Long Ialsnd, NY).ģ. I found this list of firewood trees for zones 5 and up. I highly recommend ash for firewood growth on your property but do keep an eye out for the boreres.yhouc an get plugs to put into the tree to kill them but so far we haven't invsted in t he lugs here yet.not sure about insecticides you know. We wil be cutting a few ash this next year.but we have a lot of them growing.they eventually have to be thinned out anyway as they'lll grow quite close togheter into a large woods very quickly. Some of our ash are showing signs of decline.but they tend to grow quite large before they decline.so they make quick firewood.so we aren't oging to eliminate the ash trees, and who knows, maybe they'll grow some resistance to boreres like the elm did to elm disease.
Once you have an adult ash and it sends out seeds, you'll have ash babies everywhere.Īsh babies grow extremely fast and make tall straight trunks very quickly, which is great for firewood but also for lumber. so the trees don't have a great chance of growing to adulthood. We have a lot of white ash on our property.problem is now the emerald ash borere is getting to be quite a problem all over our area. One cord/acre/year doesn't sound like very much to me, but I'm just getting started with this firewood stuff and my sense of these things isn't very well tuned. if that's the case, you'll have at least five years until your first harvest, though you would be planting every year until then. my guess is that you would harvest on something around a five to eight year rotation, where 1/5 to 1/8 of the trunks are cut each year. I have seen the figure one cord/acre/year for coppiced ash thrown around, and I imagine that's probably a reasonable estimate of what you could get from a mature woodlot. How much land and time you'll need to supply yourself with ash or willow firewood is going to be very much dependent on the specifics of your site. the internet even tells me that automobile frames are made from ash. think baseball and cricket bats, musical instruments, furniture. I don't think it'll last exposed to the elements, though.
fortunately, both your candidates there are useful for a great many other things beside burning.Īsh ( Fraxinus) wood is very useful stuff for all sorts of woodworking. I don't think I would plant a tree for the single function of firewood.
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