On Feb 2, 8:53*am, Dave_s wrote:
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 .- Hide quoted text -

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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