Fruit trees are notoriously hard to extinguish. I have apples, cherries, pears, wild cherries grapes, and some kind of Japanese, I guess dogwood type trees that bear copious amounts of fruit that the birds, and deer and chickens love.. every fruit tree just re-sprouts if cut. I will also add that maple trees and many offensive invaders have the same traits of regeneration. In the case of fruit trees, i have embraced the idea that as long as they bear fruit for the wild co inhabitants that enjoy them, they will remain uncut.
We had two fruit trees die of, I expect, natural causes, and we cut them but did not try to remove the stumps. I share your attitude to fruit trees, which is why we left the mulberry tree that is actually a tree be. We also discovered three sour cherries during routine clearing and we're taking care of them.
Invaders are scary. We have a whole copse of the poetically named tree of heaven and the rate, at which they sprout new saplings is impressive. I spent some time weeding the small ones this summer. A copse is fine at the bottom of the garden but we can't have them take it over.
Wow. I've not tried this myself, but I'm told that if you cut at the base and make some slits with an axe and pour in concentrated roundup, it "should" kill the tree. Personally, I use the mattock, though I've never had to deal with a mulberry tree.
Yeah, but you'd still have to pull it out afterwards. I did consider boiling water, to be honest, before I saw the size of those roots... We don't have a mattock but I like how it looks. We'll get one, thanks!
Fruit trees are notoriously hard to extinguish. I have apples, cherries, pears, wild cherries grapes, and some kind of Japanese, I guess dogwood type trees that bear copious amounts of fruit that the birds, and deer and chickens love.. every fruit tree just re-sprouts if cut. I will also add that maple trees and many offensive invaders have the same traits of regeneration. In the case of fruit trees, i have embraced the idea that as long as they bear fruit for the wild co inhabitants that enjoy them, they will remain uncut.
We had two fruit trees die of, I expect, natural causes, and we cut them but did not try to remove the stumps. I share your attitude to fruit trees, which is why we left the mulberry tree that is actually a tree be. We also discovered three sour cherries during routine clearing and we're taking care of them.
Invaders are scary. We have a whole copse of the poetically named tree of heaven and the rate, at which they sprout new saplings is impressive. I spent some time weeding the small ones this summer. A copse is fine at the bottom of the garden but we can't have them take it over.
Wow. I've not tried this myself, but I'm told that if you cut at the base and make some slits with an axe and pour in concentrated roundup, it "should" kill the tree. Personally, I use the mattock, though I've never had to deal with a mulberry tree.
Yeah, but you'd still have to pull it out afterwards. I did consider boiling water, to be honest, before I saw the size of those roots... We don't have a mattock but I like how it looks. We'll get one, thanks!