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Kill stump
On Feb 10, 9:25*pm, Dave_s wrote:
Pavel314 wrote: Why not just set the pots on the stumps? My wife started hiding/ decorating a couple of stumps that way, then it expanded to pots on upright logs of various heights. Illustration at: http://home.comcast.net/~rbfarm/ Paul * * * * Paul, putting pots with colorful annuals sure looks nice at your Rainbow Farm. Thanks for your suggestions. This stump grows new shoots so rapidly, that the annuals in a pot on this stump would repeatedly be surrounded by tall new shoots. *I'm wondering how you keep those new shoots from growing rapidly from your tree stumps. Do they periodically become taller than the annual plants in the pots? * * * * See my very actively growing ELM tree stump at (http://s1001.photobucket.com/albums/...0Tree%20Stump/...) and (http://s1001.photobucket.com/albums/...0Tree%20Stump/...) This tree, removed 2 years ago, *was 55 feet tall with an 14inch diameter trunk. The stump looks like it will live forever. Dave_S The three original stumps we had were from an oak, a sweetgum and a hickory, which grew within a couple of yards from each other. As I recall, they put out shoots for a while but we just cut them off until they gave up. Maybe elms are more persistant. A few ideas spring to mind, none of which I've actually tried: 1, make a solution of copper sulphate and pour it on the top of the stump every few days to kill it; 2, remove all the bark from the stump; 3, put rock salt around the stump. Paul |
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