We're plauged by ash trees/ sapllings, everytime I clear a space (we moved in here in April this year!) there's another sodding 10 lurking in the undergrowth!
if they're really little above ground but have been cut back so the roots are quite big, if you try and pull the blighters up the bark and leaves just slide off the centre shoot!
we have one which is taller than the house and is coming down in the next month or so our neighbour says it's less than 8 years old and it's roots are so big it's raised all the flags on her patio...... god alone knows what it's done to her drainage pipes! the only way those roots are going is to be ground out, go with the creoste and pray to anything you can think of it works because those seedling pop up in places you never know you had..... Good luck!!!
Matt says he wants to plant something else in the area so not a good idea to use the creosote as it will kill other plants in the area !
Roundup Stump Killer will kill the stump but you've got to wait for that to happen and you've still got to dig it out because it doesn't hasten the decompostion of the wood.
You might just as well dig it out in the first place and hone and tone that fit young body!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
we had htis with a tree we wanted out.. we gut it down as far as we could.. then stuck copper nails in it.. left it for a year.. and it was dead enough that we dug around the roots and then sawed off the tap root and main big roots.. left them to die on their own and not cause subsidence
but i undersntand you dont have this much time to wait.. so you will have to dig it out.. dig around and down as much of the roots as you can.. then cut off main roots at a level out the way.. then just get the axe to it.. as their roots go long way.. leave main roots to die on their own and the space will fill up wihtout leaving gapping tunels and holes under your ground.
Yes, that'll be fine - just get down as far as you can then saw through it, even with a hacksaw blade if access is difficult, then back fill the hole and add a bit of blood, fish and bone meal, or Growmore general fertiliser when you plant something - you'll just have to remember that the roots are there and that you won't be able to plant a large shrub there, but it'll be fine for perennials, or a honeysuckle or clematis to go up that fence, or for most smaller plants.
Much better than poisoning it and having to wait for it to die and rot off - could've taken years!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@mattbeer87.. good grief.. they do themselves in the most awkward places dont they maybe be better off with an axe if you can get your hands on one.. easier to use when trying to chop in a confined area.. .. concrete is a pain.. all way down our one side we have large lumps of it from neighbours fences.. when they replace they just put post on the inside of one and never dig them out.. we have lost 2 ft all down oneside when we put our patio wall up to avoid the damn things.. do annoying.. we did break sum up with a sledge hammer but damned hard going.
just keep at it.. you will get the blighter out soon..
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We're plauged by ash trees/ sapllings, everytime I clear a space (we moved in here in April this year!) there's another sodding 10 lurking in the undergrowth!
if they're really little above ground but have been cut back so the roots are quite big, if you try and pull the blighters up the bark and leaves just slide off the centre shoot!
we have one which is taller than the house and is coming down in the next month or so our neighbour says it's less than 8 years old and it's roots are so big it's raised all the flags on her patio...... god alone knows what it's done to her drainage pipes! the only way those roots are going is to be ground out, go with the creoste and pray to anything you can think of it works because those seedling pop up in places you never know you had..... Good luck!!!
Matt says he wants to plant something else in the area so not a good idea to use the creosote as it will kill other plants in the area !
Roundup Stump Killer will kill the stump but you've got to wait for that to happen and you've still got to dig it out because it doesn't hasten the decompostion of the wood.
You might just as well dig it out in the first place and hone and tone that fit young body!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is on my list of jobs today! Hopefully I can get the blighter out!
we had htis with a tree we wanted out.. we gut it down as far as we could.. then stuck copper nails in it.. left it for a year.. and it was dead enough that we dug around the roots and then sawed off the tap root and main big roots.. left them to die on their own and not cause subsidence
but i undersntand you dont have this much time to wait.. so you will have to dig it out.. dig around and down as much of the roots as you can.. then cut off main roots at a level out the way.. then just get the axe to it.. as their roots go long way.. leave main roots to die on their own and the space will fill up wihtout leaving gapping tunels and holes under your ground.
I don't know whos winning at the moment but I'm contending with Concrete on both sides now, digging it out is virtually impossible.
I think I'll have to saw it down as low as possible and shovel soil over it in the hope that will kill it (Eventually..)
Yes, that'll be fine - just get down as far as you can then saw through it, even with a hacksaw blade if access is difficult, then back fill the hole and add a bit of blood, fish and bone meal, or Growmore general fertiliser when you plant something - you'll just have to remember that the roots are there and that you won't be able to plant a large shrub there, but it'll be fine for perennials, or a honeysuckle or clematis to go up that fence, or for most smaller plants.
Much better than poisoning it and having to wait for it to die and rot off - could've taken years!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@mattbeer87.. good grief.. they do themselves in the most awkward places dont they
maybe be better off with an axe if you can get your hands on one.. easier to use when trying to chop in a confined area.. .. concrete is a pain.. all way down our one side we have large lumps of it from neighbours fences.. when they replace they just put post on the inside of one and never dig them out.. we have lost 2 ft all down oneside when we put our patio wall up to avoid the damn things.. do annoying..
we did break sum up with a sledge hammer but damned hard going.
just keep at it.. you will get the blighter out soon..
Painted that entire fence behind it today but forgot to get myself a decent saw zzzz
Tomorrow I'll go and grab something with a sharp blade.
I'm hoping to get a Mandarin Honeysuckle from the Local Garden Centre but if not I'll have to settle for the plain pink one.
Looking forward to seeing a pick of the honeysuckle happily growing up the fence
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.