Ha, dove! he did grow quite quickly. One minute a boy and the next saying "Mum, I can do that..." He's now in his twentys and has really sorted my house and garden out for me. I don't know how I managed before he grew up! Homemade chicken soup and something green everyday - brought them up on my own with not a lot of money and everything homemade - healthy boys! My other son is bigger and stronger but is completely the opposite and simply watches him.
Nora if the stumps are too short to rock as verdun suggested try this way.....Dig about a foot back from the stump in a circle. Any roots you hit that are not too big chop with a saw or a good pair of loppers. Keep going round and round doing this until you can just lift the stump out. Then go back to getting each cut root out. I have managed to get huge stumps out this way much to the surprise of many a male customer who had given up lol!
Addict - what do you do when you have got them out - ie to get them ready for planting again? Is my plan of loads of horse muck going to work, or do I need something more??
addict- I need you here to get my dead stump out! No idea what tree it is as it was well dead when I moved in but I did exactly the same thing with it as you said but I can see a big thick root going vertically from the stump so I've no chance. I sawed about 6 or 7 big roots but it ain't shifting so I'll have to work round it somehow
chick - I think the more good stuff you can put in the better.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Addict - what do you do when you have got them out - ie to get them ready for planting again? Is my plan of loads of horse muck going to work, or do I need something more??
Yes chicky. Anything and everything to improve the soil.
Fairygirl I wish you were closer I would give it a go even if it meant digging to Australia lol. How tall is the stump thats left? Could you grow a short clematis over it?
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Nora - one at a time - you've got all winter!!
Ha, dove! he did grow quite quickly. One minute a boy and the next saying "Mum, I can do that..." He's now in his twentys and has really sorted my house and garden out for me. I don't know how I managed before he grew up! Homemade chicken soup and something green everyday - brought them up on my own with not a lot of money and everything homemade - healthy boys! My other son is bigger and stronger but is completely the opposite and simply watches him.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Nora if the stumps are too short to rock as verdun suggested try this way.....Dig about a foot back from the stump in a circle. Any roots you hit that are not too big chop with a saw or a good pair of loppers. Keep going round and round doing this until you can just lift the stump out. Then go back to getting each cut root out. I have managed to get huge stumps out this way much to the surprise of many a male customer who had given up lol!
Why thank you Verdun
No massive biceps just dogged determination (some would call it obstinacy) and good tools!
Addict - what do you do when you have got them out - ie to get them ready for planting again? Is my plan of loads of horse muck going to work, or do I need something more??
addict- I need you here to get my dead stump out! No idea what tree it is as it was well dead when I moved in but I did exactly the same thing with it as you said but I can see a big thick root going vertically from the stump so I've no chance. I sawed about 6 or 7 big roots but it ain't shifting so I'll have to work round it somehow
chick - I think the more good stuff you can put in the better.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes chicky. Anything and everything to improve the soil.
Fairygirl I wish you were closer
I would give it a go even if it meant digging to Australia lol. How tall is the stump thats left? Could you grow a short clematis over it?