By the way, meant to ask someone: how do you include photos in these posts? Couldn't do it when tried once before; I might have been on iPad at the time - would that make a difference?
If you have the toolbar showing (above here) you can do it. Click on the tree and click select, then when the number is in the box, click upload then save, it should work for you then.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I've several stumps that need a coup de grace. One is the leftovers of a multi-trunk goat willow of some antiquity. Several trunks from ground level up to around 2' diameter. I can't really use a chemical stump killer as it overlooks a pond with some rather special inhabitants. Pulling and winching isn't an option as it is on a terraced bit of garden. Access isn't exactly easy, the ground slopes, and the retaining terracing structures are not of the best construction/strength . Willows sucker and coppice quite successfully. I've seen 'em in action. I'm spraying the suckers from others that had to be felled (their root systems were starting to break into a rather substantial gritstone retaining wall). With the big willow I'm not particularly worried as to how long it takes to rot as I could cover it with e.g. a scrambling clematis. Do copper nails still work? I know I could drill the stump and inject a strong solution of glyphosate, but the proximity to the pond makes me very wary. One accidental spill would be a bit of a disaster.
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That's an impressive bit of fungus.
I've several stumps that need a coup de grace. One is the leftovers of a multi-trunk goat willow of some antiquity. Several trunks from ground level up to around 2' diameter. I can't really use a chemical stump killer as it overlooks a pond with some rather special inhabitants. Pulling and winching isn't an option as it is on a terraced bit of garden. Access isn't exactly easy, the ground slopes, and the retaining terracing structures are not of the best construction/strength . Willows sucker and coppice quite successfully. I've seen 'em in action. I'm spraying the suckers from others that had to be felled (their root systems were starting to break into a rather substantial gritstone retaining wall). With the big willow I'm not particularly worried as to how long it takes to rot as I could cover it with e.g. a scrambling clematis. Do copper nails still work? I know I could drill the stump and inject a strong solution of glyphosate, but the proximity to the pond makes me very wary. One accidental spill would be a bit of a disaster.