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Tree roots under my lawn!
While walking on the grass in my bare feet at the weekend, I noticed a
bobbily bit under foot. On closer inspection I found it was a tree root from a tree about 10-12 metres away, outside of the garden. I pulled it up as much as I could, creating a rip right across the grass before it seemed to go deeper forcing me to cut it - still about 2m inside the lawn. Can these tree roots have any adverse effects on the lawn (hogging the water etc.) and is there a best practice for getting rid of them? TIA |
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Tree roots under my lawn!
In article , Nel
wrote: While walking on the grass in my bare feet at the weekend, I noticed a bobbily bit under foot. On closer inspection I found it was a tree root from a tree about 10-12 metres away, outside of the garden. I pulled it up as much as I could, creating a rip right across the grass before it seemed to go deeper forcing me to cut it - still about 2m inside the lawn. Can these tree roots have any adverse effects on the lawn (hogging the water etc.) and is there a best practice for getting rid of them? Some tree roots can be very damaging - especially if they head for the foundations of your house. In the lawn they will take moisture away and they can also make the lawn uneven and therefore potentially hazardous. If they break through to the surface they can wreak havoc on mower blades too. But you can also cause damage by severing a sizeable root. As it dies and rots down, it will cause a depression in your lawn. And it can still throw out new roots from the point where you severed it, even if you use a chemical in a bid to kill it. I live with mine. I have a row of mature poplars up to 100ft high on one side of the garden and their roots go right across my lawn, throwing up hundreds of pesky suckers which grow faster the more I mow over them. I could kill the trees but they are more important to me than the lawn. But if they were heading for the house I would have to do something about them. |
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Tree roots under my lawn!
Stan The Man wrote:
I live with mine. I have a row of mature poplars up to 100ft high on one side of the garden and their roots go right across my lawn, throwing up hundreds of pesky suckers which grow faster the more I mow over them. I could kill the trees but they are more important to me than the lawn. But if they were heading for the house I would have to do something about them. Are the poplars yours? A boundary is not meant to be more than a few feet in height. Get them chopped down if you are not the owner, but they will probably will still sucker. Poplar roots are as deep as the tree is high! -- |
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Tree roots under my lawn!
In article , Saxman
wrote: Stan The Man wrote: I live with mine. I have a row of mature poplars up to 100ft high on one side of the garden and their roots go right across my lawn, throwing up hundreds of pesky suckers which grow faster the more I mow over them. I could kill the trees but they are more important to me than the lawn. But if they were heading for the house I would have to do something about them. Are the poplars yours? A boundary is not meant to be more than a few feet in height. Get them chopped down if you are not the owner, but they will probably will still sucker. Poplar roots are as deep as the tree is high! They are mine and they aren't on the boundary. Even if they were, I'm surrounded by fields so no-one would complain... |
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