Group,

Here is my experience with gasoline/oil mixture to kill an ELM tree
stump. Does not work! Please see below.



sockiescat wrote:
'Phisherman[_3_];876254']On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:19:56 -0800 (PST), Higgs
Boson
wrote:
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I am having two large evergreen bushes removed. They
were standing on each side of my front walk. I intend
to put large decorative pots in their place with appropriate plants.
(Suggestions welcome -mini-climate is So. Calif coastal)

What's the fastest way to kill the stumps (approx 10-12" diameter)?

Last time I dealt with a stump, decades ago, one was supposed to
buy a chemical and introduce it via holes bored in the stump.

When the tree removal workers removed a 55 foot high ELM tree (15 inch
diameter), they cut deep grooves into the stump surface. Next they
poured chainsaw oil/gas mixture into the grooves. This gas and oil mix
did nothing to kill the tree stump. Numerous times every year, thousands
of new shoots grow from this stump. The new shoots grow from the outer
bark, not where the grooves and gas was poured. I have repeated the
gas/oil treatment quite a few times. Nothing helps.
The stump is very much alive.

Regards, Dave_S
Gardener just told me to use gasoline.

Any information out there on (a) fastest and (b) most effective,
and maybe (c) least expensive way. (though that's not the deciding
factor ).

Persephone-


One time I saw a man blast a large stump with a shotgun, so maybe
you're not alone. Have a fire permit?


just a thought but it might look nice if u got the stumps cut down, put
a small bed around them, grew ivy to grow over the stumps and put your
flower pots on top of them.
cyaaaaaaaaaa, sockiescat .