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[pompeyfaith]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Needs re-turfing so probably best way is to hire a Rotavator then screed the soil through some chicken wire to remove all the crap.

[pompeyfaith]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Somehow I do not think my wifes suggestion of brown vinegar will work as these are not piddly patio weeds but monsters lol

[vint1954]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Could I make a suggestion, as it splits at ground level and I don't know if you have a chainsaw. It sounds like a sod to work on. Drill holes at a downward angle about 6 - 9 Inches from the ground. Add the Stump Killer. You could use Plasticine or putty to seal the holes as at that angle wax wont work. Ring bark the stump about a foot from the ground (remove the bark all round the diameter of the stump in an inch wide strip) this will help speed things up. Then use the stump as a support for a nice climbing Rose or Clematis. I always wrap a tube of Chicken wire around the first few feet to give the young climbers a bit of grip while the get going.

Just a thought.

Regards, Handy

Great idea Handy.

No, I do not have a chain saw. I have removed what I can with a recipricating saw, but the big stumps will be too big for this. I was contemplating using a Puttock, but that seems long winded.

Vint

[Handyman]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

How true is it that brown vinegar is a good weedkiller if you have pets, just with the rain we have had plus the dog pooing the soil is rich and thus the weeds are like 3ft tall.

The 2 most toxic substances known to mankind, Polar Bear Liver and Cat Poo.

The reason nothing grows in the Arctic or my Garden

[pompeyfaith]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

How true is it that brown vinegar is a good weedkiller if you have pets, just with the rain we have had plus the dog pooing the soil is rich and thus the weeds are like 3ft tall.

[pompeyfaith]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

The froggie bit must have come from me! A colleague of mine who used to live in Central London always said I lived 'almost in France'!

I live almost on Isle of Wight, can see it but cannot quiet touch it!!!!!

[Handyman]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Thanks Handy. I will give that a go.

I had kept it trimmed down to about 14 ft, but it had to go.

It must have been there for years. I inherited it with the house.

I have got most of the greenery down, but the trunks are still at about 5ft. I will attack it agan tomorrow. The trunk at ground level is massive. It then splits into 2 trunks each about 8 or 9 inches accross. There are another couple of 6 in trunks coming out of the ground. The problem is that it is right up against the fence. I think it must have crept in from next door at some point.

Thanks for the advice.

Vint

Could I make a suggestion, as it splits at ground level and I don't know if you have a chainsaw. It sounds like a sod to work on. Drill holes at a downward angle about 6 - 9 Inches from the ground. Add the Stump Killer. You could use Plasticine or putty to seal the holes as at that angle wax wont work. Ring bark the stump about a foot from the ground (remove the bark all round the diameter of the stump in an inch wide strip) this will help speed things up. Then use the stump as a support for a nice climbing Rose or Clematis. I always wrap a tube of Chicken wire around the first few feet to give the young climbers a bit of grip while the get going.

Just a thought.

Regards, Handy

[vint1954]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Round up Tree and Stump Killer is what you need. Follow the instructions. For your size of Tree Stump, what I would do is drill up to 6 1/2 inch holes as deep as you can say 4 - 5 inches. Pour the neat liquid into the holes and then I drip candle wax over the top of the holes to seal in the liquid. This stops rain diluting or evaporation. You can also paint the cut stump with a diluted mixture.

Having said all this I have on stubborn old Buddleia that just refuses to die no matter how much stump killer I feed it

How close have you cut it to the ground? I try to cut mine as close to the ground without buggering the chainsaw blade. If you want to lose the root below ground level It should have rotted enough by spring to knock bits off for if I remember rightly The Bay tree is of the Laurel Family and loosely related to the Eucalyptus. As a shrub they are pretty easy to lift the roots but as a mature tree the roots tend to go for a fair distance.

A 14 inch stump? what height was it? 20 + feet?

Regards, Handy

Thanks Handy. I will give that a go.

I had kept it trimmed down to about 14 ft, but it had to go.

It must have been there for years. I inherited it with the house.

I have got most of the greenery down, but the trunks are still at about 5ft. I will attack it agan tomorrow. The trunk at ground level is massive. It then splits into 2 trunks each about 8 or 9 inches accross. There are another couple of 6 in trunks coming out of the ground. The problem is that it is right up against the fence. I think it must have crept in from next door at some point.

Thanks for the advice.

Vint

[Handyman]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Round up Tree and Stump Killer is what you need. Follow the instructions. For your size of Tree Stump, what I would do is drill up to 6 1/2 inch holes as deep as you can say 4 - 5 inches. Pour the neat liquid into the holes and then I drip candle wax over the top of the holes to seal in the liquid. This stops rain diluting or evaporation. You can also paint the cut stump with a diluted mixture.

Having said all this I have on stubborn old Buddleia that just refuses to die no matter how much stump killer I feed it

How close have you cut it to the ground? I try to cut mine as close to the ground without buggering the chainsaw blade. If you want to lose the root below ground level It should have rotted enough by spring to knock bits off for if I remember rightly The Bay tree is of the Laurel Family and loosely related to the Eucalyptus. As a shrub they are pretty easy to lift the roots but as a mature tree the roots tend to go for a fair distance.

A 14 inch stump? what height was it? 20 + feet?

Regards, Handy

[Deepie]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Spent all day in the garden removing a huge Bay bush.

Anybody know how to kill a Bay trunk, about 14 inches accross?

Handyman's your man..............give him a PM

[vint1954]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Spent all day in the garden removing a huge Bay bush.

Anybody know how to kill a Bay trunk, about 14 inches accross?

[vint1954]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Yea but I'm in Yorkshire not Scotland

So you iz ze frog? Ahhhhhh.....

Ah. There is a vineyard in Leeds!

Only a Frog when it comes to getting cheap wine and fags

My father came from Yorkshire, my mother from Lancashire, so more northern than continental.

Plant that vine Niddy, and buy yourself a machete

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

I have heard of vinyards in Scotland!

Indeed, closer to France than London.

They do have vineyards in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Yea but I'm in Yorkshire not Scotland

So you iz ze frog? Ahhhhhh.....

[Handyman]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

Only have an Air Rifle myself these days. I don't have much of a rabbit problem here at Hooray Hall as we had a big myxi outbreak last year and the cat picked off the affected.

When I was on the Estate in Scotland the Rabbits got into the kitchen garden no matter how well I fenced it. Mrs H said I was turning into Elmer Fud. At night the security lights would go on at the back of the Lodge and I would be off.

Biggest problem I had was the Red Dear nipping over the fence to nibble my lettuce.

Still as far North as we were we has Great Strawberries, Gooseberries, Raspberries and plums. The season was 6 to 8 weeks later than down south but we had great crops.

Regards, Handy

[vint1954]

Re: Garden Corner: for the green fingered amongst us

I have to say I do like a nip of Sloe gin from the hip flask on a cold Autumn / winters morning when fishing or shooting. Not that I get chance to do much of either these days.

I do more shooting with the camera these day's as Mrs Handy wont let me do Rabbit or Pigeon Pie.

Day's were when I could get my meat and two veg from my Vegetable Garden

Nothing wrong with a hip flask at any time of year.

I have not been able to shoot for some time now. They wanted me to get a licence!