Just when you thought you heard everything:
A friend relayed a story to me of a neighbor who decided that he wanted to get rid of a tree.
He decides, for whatever reason, that it would be best to kill the tree before cutting it.
His method to kill the tree: mix together FIVE GALLONS of "Roundup", FOUR GALLONS of "Weed B-Gone", a bag of Scott's granular weed killer, and a half gallon of TURPENTINE ("for extra good measure"?) and pour the concoction into the ground at the base of three tree.
He'll probably kill everything within 100 feet too.
He'll probably kill everything within 100 feet too.
He could have used total vegetation killer. But this brings up the issue of why anyone would kill a tree with herbicide when they are then faced with a more serious problem of having a dead tree that will eventually fall and/or break. Since you have to remove the tree, dead or alive, it seems like a waste of time and money to kill it first - all other issues aside related to the indiscriminate use of herbicides.
yeah? nice. I have a tree out front that isn't coming back, after 6 years. Oh, and I have a grass loving neighbour next door.
Why not just gird the tree? By that I mean cutting all around through the outer layers and get slightly into the real wood of the tree. Keep the channel open and do not let it grow together or grow over. The tree should die, given time.
Hoyt W.
Sounds like an apocryphal story to me. "Five gallons of Roundup" costs a small fortune.
Cut the tree down while it's alive (it's a lot safer that way), then paint the freshly cut stump with undiluted "Brush B-Gone" if you want to prevent it from resprouting.
Bob
I do hope he is on a well.
People are appallingly ignorant. Look at newsgroup questions for which RTFM is an entirely appropriate response. And *these* people at least bothered to ask before jumping into something with no clue whatsoever. High IQ or position in life has no correlation with common sense.
I think that is the exact recipe for the infamous Vietnam war defoliant Agent Orange.
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