Sounds like a perfect set up to cause disease to me
Don't let the suckers get so big that you cannot rub them off with
your thumb.
Suckers from the base can be pulled removing a piece of below or near
ground tissue with the bud that geve rise to them.

"Bill C." wrote in message ...
Cherry Question


Because it is pruned fairly heavily, there's a tendency for it to produce
many suckers growing out of its base root system close to the main trunk.
Saplings are easy to yank out, but these suckers have to be cut pretty
frequently. Its is a maintenance problem and could ultimately be an entry
point to disease. If I wrap the base with landscape cloth and mulch heavily
will the suckers whither and die? Or will they simply push their way
through because they are attached to the main tree and keep coming?
Thoughts?