Getting Rid of Sweet Gum Balls?

shelley

February 27, 20110 found this helpful

What in the hell are gumballs?

bheinrichs1107

April 10, 20170 found this helpful

They're little booby traps in your yard that prevent you from walking outside barefooted.

 

Debbie Stewart

March 4, 20110 found this helpful

Look up Sweet Gum trees on the internet. Like the pine tree has pine cones, the sweet gum tree has gum balls. They are small round balls with sharp spikes all around them.

Julia
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March 4, 20110 found this helpful

You can collect the sweetgum balls (dried ones), spray paint and glitter them, and either use them on Christmas gifts
or Christmas trees, in bowls on the table on in clear glass vases or baskets with natural pine cones. They make really pretty ornamental touches for wreaths for every season when left natural, and I've used them in floral arrangements by gluing them onto thin sticks and placing them right in with cut, dried
or silk flowers.

You might not be able to prevent them from falling to the ground, but you can sure find lots of crafty uses for them.

There are people who will buy them for craft uses as well.

Hope this helps.

Pookarina

Peggy

March 5, 20110 found this helpful

I would pay postage to send me some! They are supposed to be good for spiders. I put some out several years ago and worked like a charm.

tazshania2

June 29, 20170 found this helpful

I have plenty of them in my yard. And U clearly hate them. Yoy can have all you want.

 

KATHIEMCNEESE

March 25, 20180 found this helpful

I have a ton of them in my backyard

 

ronald1952wwjd

March 20, 20190 found this helpful

How many do you want? I have just over 10,000 seed pods with each pod averaging 4 seeds each.

 

neilphillips378

March 21, 20200 found this helpful

How and where do you put them

 

jbt

March 21, 20210 found this helpful

I'll send you all I have........only pay postage.

 

Karin K.

April 21, 20220 found this helpful

Personal message me and I will send you some! I have buckets of them.

 

Very few of the many seeds are fertile. Gum balls can be tilled into compacted soil for aeration, minding the pH, of course.

I appreciate the craft ideas certainly, as my garden is polluted with balls from my (well-liked) neighbor. Are they a sourde for storax gum? Not sure, find your own web info at your own risk.

cjkingroxx

November 22, 20210 found this helpful

Will tilling in the gumballs greatly affect the ph of the soil?

 

Carla Jean P.

March 18, 20130 found this helpful

I have a whole big pile of sweet gumballs inback of my shed here in Springfield, Missouri. Anyone that wants them is welcome to them.