Re: Pepper tree going crazy

Jul 14, 2003 1 Replies

When the tree is gone, the animosity between neighbours will live on....clip it and live with it. Its all part of living in a community.....


My next door neighbor has a very mature pepper tree, about 70 feet tall,
> that is located just over his side of the fence. It of course hangs over my
> side of the property line, dropping annoying peppercorns, but worse, it has
> a bunch of volunteer pepper trees popping up from underground, on my side of
> the fence.
> I've tried to talk to my neighbor about this situation, to no avail. His
> attitude is that it simply isn't his problem, and that if I don't like it,
> "tough luck." At this point, I'd like to kill this tree. Is there any way
> to do so, effectively? Is there a poisin that I can effectively apply to
> the tree as I trim back those above-ground branches that I cut back that
> come over the fence? Or can I also apply poisin to the volunteers that are
> popping up, and hope that it'll do the job?
> Thanks in advance for any helpful advice!
>
>

Actually, the "neighbor" is an absentee landlord whose tenants share my opinion of the messy pepper tree, so back to the question at hand: how do I effectively kill it?

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