did I kill my tree?
 

"roch_mom" wrote in message
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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.

If you only cut off a few roots and the biggest was only 1 inch
in diameter you probably did not harm your 60 foot tree. I would
not plant grass under the tree however. In all likely hood the
tree will suck up all the available water and shade the grass and
then it (the grass) will struggle or die.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5