I agree if the worms are healthy it's OK. Bleach would be used up pretty quickly reacting with all that organic matter, and assuming it does break down to NaCl, it's not that much salt considering bleach is only 5% by weight to begin with. I'm not sure why anyone would recommend putting bleach on a stump, though. You want the fungi and bacteria and grubs and beetles in the soil to break down the stump, and bleach is not going to make any of them work faster. Quite the contrary. Last stump I had, I drilled 3/4" holes into half of it and filled them with fertilizer. That half of the stump broke down twice as fast as the other half. If your stump was stinky, it could be the type of tree. Was this an oak tree or what?

I've also been longing for a fringe tree but have never seen it for sale in my area. From what I've read about them they can be grown as either an understory tree or out in the open. My mature dogwood is in decline and needs to be cut down but my young redbud is going strong. I really like both trees. You really lucked out getting what sounds like large trees for free! And so many of them! Here is a link that might be useful: http://forestry.about.com/od/silviculture/p/fringetree.htm

I am so VERY lucky! Renée, the poppers were gone by the end of the 2nd day! I ate them all in 2 sittings, I'm embarrassed to say!! I enjoyed taking the pictures! The kids just cannot understand why I keep getting presents from my "Secret Santa!" [I don't even quite know how they understand the concept of "Secret Santa" (as we're Jewish!), but they do!] The DOROT cookbook is FABULOUS! I keep reading and reading it. It is so rich in stories, the recipes are almost incidental! I truly enjoy the reading and will continue to read and even reread! Renée, again, I am so greatly appreciative of everything! Thank you! Deb

I did and at cliq studio and a few others but my husband wants ones fully assembled rather than need to be assembled. Tomorrow the Amish cabinets company are coming to measure and give me an estimate. That will give me a few different options. The workers are BACK!! Yesterday we finally received a check from the mortgage company for a portion of our money. Good grief what an ordeal. And instead of the check being made out just to us it's made out to us and our contractors company. So he endorsed it and gave me a copy of his business w9 with his signature on it. We go to our bank and immediately there's a problem. We are told it can't be deposited into our account it must be deposited into the contractor business account. We went round and round. Nope not budging. We don't owe that amount to the contractor it's our money not his. Well we had to call him to come to the bank and deposit our entire check into his account. Now please tell me how this protects me the homeowner? This is how contractors are running off with huge sums of money! So all the money is in his account. We trust him and hopefully he will deposit our money back into our account today but good grief what happens if he doesn't. I just think this is the most ridiculous display of stupidity. What do you think the mortgage company would do if that happens and we have no funds to fix the house because this position they are putting homeowners in that's a definite possibility. No doubt they would come after the homeowner. I hope my contractor deposits my money!