Re: did I kill my tree?

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

roch_mom wrote:

> This Sunday, my husband and I decided to dig up a row of prickly bushes
> planted 10 feet away from the property line. They were planted
> perpendicular to a tree (I think a maple) which is about 60 feet tall
> and turns yellow in the fall, with yellow/green flowers on it now. We
> want to plant grass there since the bushes broke up our property which
> goes back 40 feet and the bushes just took up 4 feet with dirt. Plus my
> son almost ran into these bushes which were full of thorns.
>
> When we were digging out these bushes we sawed through some roots which
> in hindsight were from the tree. One was pretty big and there were a
> three or foor that were an inch in diameter. Today, I realized what we
> had done and after looking on the net, I realized we might have killed
> the tree.
>
> Is there anything to do to save the tree? Can we plant grass there now
> that we dug up the bushes?
>
> Any and all advice would be great.
>

Pruning the tree might reduce its water requirements. I dunno. Maybe an
arborist is reading the group?

Carl


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