How can you stop a tree from producing sap?
Question:We have a tree in our front yard that hangs over our driveway. Every summer, the tree produces sap, dripping it on our cars and attracting lots of ants. Help! I love the tree, hate the sap.
Answers:
Only by killing the tree. Sap is it's life "blood".
Trim the limbs, after the leaves fall.
The only way to keep a tree from producing sap is to kill it. Sap is to a tree what blood is to us. In the winter when dormant it doesn't produce enough for it to be noticeable. The rest of the year it will.
Since you love the tree, perhaps you should look into building / erecting a prefab carport.
Cut it down and plant another type of tree.
It sounds like a job for Al Gore. If only he had been elected, we could have outlawed the practice of trees producing sap.
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