Thanks bpgreen. I probably will. I've never grown grass from seed as you can probably guess. I'd read somewhere to water it twice a day the first 2-3 weeks. So I thought the early morning waterings were showing some restraint...sigh! Any ideas on how to undo the damage, stop the fungus from spreading???

If you let the bottom part of the stump regrow it has got the roots so it will be stable ...the other parts of the stump you can make into a hedge if you just leave them on the ground some will sprout and others won't. Either way its good mulch if the tree isn't diseased. Otherwise just use the stumps or compost them and only let the base with the roots regrow. You can wax the top of the stump with beeswax to seal the open wound and stop it rotten and getting diseased. we have an apple tree that grew back like that and ive got horse chestnuts growing that way. You can also employ a proper arbour maintenance guy to cut your trees into shapes that are less likely to get ripped up in a storm hey take a lot of the longer branches and shorten them so you get new flimsy growth which the wind can't break as easily and they look nice after a few years and if it is properly done. They do third in Europe a lot and it looks great. Here in Ireland a lot of people with an electric saw think they can do work with trees and really they have not a clue. So be careful to find a guy and see his work. Sometimes they cut them so ugly but when cut right it make a them a lot safer and still looks nice. Bit like a lollipop lol! But better than having no trees at all. You can also plant other trees around large trees to create wind break... Trees like poplar are good for that and birch they break the wind up and divert it before the fall force hits the big tree. Its not bad for buildings to have some wind break too. Might not make much difference during a hurricane though. If its a big oak its probably been there longer than you and birds may have lived there for generations ...trees are an amazing asset and take so long to mature that I'd do everything I could to protect them and help them endure safely before cutting them down. They do so much good. And you might find problems if you fell a lpt of them... Landsliding away flooding in paddocks and other things which the trees have been preventing for years.

Don't worry. They will sit it out until the weather is right for them. Many spring bulbs are showing here already but they know not to flower until the appropriate conditions arrive.

7-12-2023: My fault, I wasn't paying attention, but you can tell by the last picture of my Gleditsia Triacanthos tree from seed posted above, due to vigorous growth last season, the top 1/3 of the tree began to take a lean or bending over at the top. By the last part of August, it dawned on me that wasn't just a 'branch' leaning over but the whole top of the tree. 8-23-2022: After several attempts to stake/splint the tree with my 5 ft. step ladder (with DW holding it of course), I realize I needed to get higher, much higher, if I was going to make the tree 'perfect' lol. That tree has got to be 18 ft. tall maybe 20' after straightening it up. My new neighbor brought his 'Little Giant' safety ladder over and with him holding the ladder, we managed to get high enough to be able to get things back to almost perfect. There's a couple/three feet at the very top not attached to the pole, but it appears to be stiff enough to stay upright, hopefully long enough for the tree to adapt to its new direction. By Fall I'm hoping to take this all off. :-)