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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2017 14:03:29 GMT
...specifically a Twisted Hazel.
Any of you green fingered types out there advise how critical it is to remove ALL the roots ? I don't want the bugger coming back.
I got down about a metre and a half got the tree, stump and most of the roots out but one, I guess the main root, goes straight down.
Now, my dilemma, I don't want to put Creosote or diesel or anything else that poisons the ground as I want to move a cherry tree into the same spot. If I put gravel for drainage on top of the main root at this kind of depth, lava gravel on top then soil and the cherry tree on top of this will it be enough to see off the twisted hazel ?
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Post by Humph on Aug 19, 2017 16:10:32 GMT
In truth I don't know the answer. But, I had a similar wrestling match with 3 large and unwanted leylandii a few years back. It turned into a battle royal and cost me several broken garden implements and a great deal of sweat, but I emerged victorious, apart from, as you have found, the deepest roots.
I didn't poison them either and to date they haven't come back. However, your tree may be more of a fighter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2017 16:21:40 GMT
For Leylandi I've heard a nail driven into the bark does the job. I pulled all the "easy" roots up which came up close to the surface, my main concern is what looks like a main root or possibly a tap root. If I can bury without poisoning that then I'm happy.
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Post by WDB on Aug 20, 2017 19:23:30 GMT
Any nail? Or a copper one? Got five of the blighters at the end of our garden. Horrible things, but they do a good job of screening the view of the house beyond, which isn't all that far away.
Would like to replace them with beech but that would take decades to grow to screening height.
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Post by hobbit on Aug 21, 2017 11:06:06 GMT
Paint the top of the root with Round-up weed killer, leave it exposed 24hrs then cover it over and you'll be ok. Round-up doesn't poison the ground around it as it neutralises on contact with soil but will kill the root.
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Post by Humph on Aug 21, 2017 11:25:49 GMT
Now that Hobbit, is exactly what the internet is for ! Brilliant suggestion and one I shall now never forget. Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2017 17:20:42 GMT
Thank you hobbit.
Now, where do I get some Round-up? The burghers banned it here and the "new & improved" (don't get me started on that load of nonsense English) one does not have the active ingredient that made it work.
We can't even use salt and vinegar mixed with some washing-up liquid as a weed killer here as it poisons the waterways and they have little men who have nothing else to do than trace it back through the pipework with 3,000€ fines if you're caught.
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