SUBJECT: How to poison weed-like squirrel-planted YOUNG-trees after scythe-ing off the stalks.
In the back yard we have this large patch of pakasandra (sp?), which each year turns into a jungle of thus-far-juvenile trees. (Each year they get planted via squirrels burring nuts, some of which they clearly don't locate later on.)
Anyway, this year I got this (home-depot) serrated-edge scythe and went out there and chopped them all, shortening them from maybe 5 to 8 feet tall to 2 or 3 foot-high truncated stalks.
How to get rid of these things -- so at least *this* batch doesn't grow back?
I was thinking that since I want to preserve the *desired* plants (eg pakasandra(sp?)), I'd want to be super-careful with any poison.
Obviously (I think) I wouldn't want to spray anything over the entire area.
So, I was thinking that maybe I could carefully "paint" some poison directly on the chopped cross-section of each of those remaining stalks?
(At this point, there's no leaves left, just the roughly-chopped stalks.)
QUESTION: does this make any sense?
If so, what *kind* of poison -- that would hopefully be just enough to kill *that* attempting-to-be-a-tree stalk (and roots?), but that wouldn't propagate out to roots of *other* plants.
Ideas?
Thanks!
David