Peachy, Stump grinding can be pretty expensive. Keep all the suckers cut back as soon as they sprout and the stump will starve to death in a season and quit throwing suckers. Or if you can cut the sump low enough, just mow over it when you mow the grass and it will die quick enough. If you are not opposed to chemicals, you could spray the foliage with glyphosate (Round Up). One treatment of may do it, but it may send up a few more suckers after the initial treatment and a second treatment may be required. I've not had luck burning stumps out that are still green, unless you pile a lot of wood on them. You could pull it out as Murky suggests, but it will only work if it's pretty small. It's hard to cut all the roots if it's big and stumps are misleadingly tough to pull out if they are very big. It's a little off topic, but the other day I saw a commercial for a 4X4 truck (I think it was Chevy) and they pulled out a huge (about 2' dia.) stump. I thought, what a joke. I have quite a bit of experience in my lifetime trying to pull stumps out (using tractors and other equipment). If you've got the time, I'll share a couple stories: Once I tried to pull a stump out with a large 2 ton hay truck. I had a very big chain (almost the size of a railroad chain). The tree was only about 8" in diameter and I cut all the roots I could get to with a chainsaw. I thought the thing would come out with no problem. It was not a very big tree, it should have moved, so I thought I'd give it a little jerk. It still wouldn't come out so I got more and more aggressive. Finally I backed up about 10-15 feet to get a good run at it. I hit the end of that chain and the truck came to a shockingly abrupt stop. I bent the hitch of the truck and it flung the battery out of its compartment. I ended up digging a lot deeper and cutting more roots, before I got it out. Last year I tried to push out a stump with a road grader. It was about a 2' dia. stump. It was a large motor grader weighing 32,000 lbs. It had enough power to pull all but the very largest 4-wheel drive tractors backwards. Using the blade, I couldn't push the stump out even ramming it. I had to end up digging down and cutting more roots with the blade, more or less digging the stump out. There's no way a 4X4 pickup could pull a large stump out, as the advertisement suggested, even if they cut the roots. To get that to work on film, they had to dig the stump out and re-bury it in loose soil beforehand. This post was edited by olpea on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 10:16

Thanks guys for making me feel better! If I had a lot of property, I would have them all over and not worry about how close they are, but since I do not, I wanted to try and get a 4th tree in the same area, so in order to do that, I had to plant the cherry closer to the plumcot. I am sure it would take several years for them even to come close to each other, but when they do, I guess I can just prune them so they do not touch. Right now, I have fruit trees in the ground and containers since the ground is not diggable in certain places. So using the containers for those places lets me have more trees. The ones I have in containers ( a few dwarf apples, another pie cherry, a 2 in 1 sweet cherry, a peach , all dwarfs) I have in 21-24" containers. I hope they are big enough as a final container size. Anyway, back to the subject, I want to maybe put another pie cherry next to the cherry already planted, and will probably have to be 6 feet or so away like the others. Thanks again for easing my worried nature! Christy

The wood will probably not change the pH much, but it will deplete soil nitrogen for awhile as it decomposes. Compost and/or fertilizer would be a good thing if you plan to plant in it. Unless it is mostly fresh wood chips, you could probably plant now. Just keep an eye on your plants for nitrogen deficiency and give them some liquid fertilizer if it appears.

I'm not an expert, but have installed a couple shallow wells. You're down far enough to try it out. Like kittyl said, there are a lot of factors, but all things being equal you're best not going down any further than you need do. Do some research on developing the well as you can typically increase the GPM yield significantly over what you first achieve after hooking up the pump. Please post your results.