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Old 29-08-2006, 09:40 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stan The Man Stan The Man is offline
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Default Tree roots under my lawn!

In article , Saxman
wrote:

Stan The Man wrote:


I live with mine. I have a row of mature poplars up to 100ft high on
one side of the garden and their roots go right across my lawn,
throwing up hundreds of pesky suckers which grow faster the more I mow
over them.

I could kill the trees but they are more important to me than the lawn.
But if they were heading for the house I would have to do something
about them.


Are the poplars yours? A boundary is not meant to be more than a few feet in
height. Get them chopped down if you are not the owner, but they will
probably will
still sucker.

Poplar roots are as deep as the tree is high!


They are mine and they aren't on the boundary. Even if they were, I'm
surrounded by fields so no-one would complain...