Soil treatment after removing trees?
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Comments (3)Too bad about your tree. You're very lucky it was only a tree and not everything. Please clarify: did you grind the stump and refill the hole with the ground stump? Filling the hole with chipped wood will result in a hole exactly the size of the hole you started with. The only thing you can fill a hole with is minerals like a soil containing clay, silt, and sand. A hole full of organic matter will completely empty itself before your eyes. Not only that but while it is disappearing, nothing will grow on it because of the huge nitrogen requirement to decompose the wood. The fastest way out of your situation would be to go out in the woods, find a piece of rotten wood, and put that on top of your pile of chipped wood. Then keep the pile moist (not soaking wet) for several weeks until the wood rot takes hold in the wood chips. After that the wood rot fungus will sustain itself without the continual moisture. Still it will take a year or so to completely rot away. then you can fill the hole with soil. If you dig out half and fill it will soil, the rest will eventually rot away and leave you with a hole again. ...and nothing will grow on the top layer of soil while the wood underneath the soil is rotting. Agree with Mitter. Hay is not what you want. You want straw. But I wouldn't even do that. It is too late in the season to expect grass seed to sprout. I would sit back and let Nature take Her course. Then see what you have left. She may do you a favor or may send you something worse....See Moresoil after tree removal
Comments (17)The answer depends in part on the current conditions of the soil and what your intended new plants prefer. I don't see how compost could do any harm. Aside from that, the stump and roots are your big problem as discussed in the responses above. My first thought is that sometimes stumps don't completely die right away even when the tree was sick so you might even want to make sure you finish it off with a little herbicide right after the tree crew is done (I did this with two Ailanthus trees which have to be poisoned to insure death. Fortunately, Ailanthus rots much quicker than Oak). I would go with grinding out as much as you can. One hour with a grinder is worth years of natural decay. There are also various products that increase the rotting of the stump and others that burn the stump. You can also do some things without fancy products to speed up the decay like drilling holes and packing in high nitrogen manure or fertilizer. Hack up the big exposed roots as best you can also. Also, A little work with a mattock to hack up all the little feeder roots might also make your eventual new planting easier. I think that whatever route you take it will be a while before it is all gone but there are faster ways and slower ways depending on time, energy and budget. Be mindful over the years that if there are big roots under the asphalt it is possible that part of the driveway will sink in a bit at some point when the roots finally rot away but if it's just asphalt without concrete underneath that's easily fixed. I'm attaching a link to one online article about stump removal. Here is a link that might be useful: stump removal without grinding...See MorePlanting after pine tree removal
Comments (4)May, on my acre of North St Louis glory I would probably just cut it flush with the ground. If it is only 12 foot tall how thick is the trunk? Maybe a foot across. Someplace large than that I can not cut flush with my chainsaw and they seem to linger. FWIW when I had a large white ash removed with its about three foot across trunk I had it ground. Three years later the soil where it was still is not right to plant in. The soil near the rotting 30 inch across stump I left for decoration when I removed a white ash almost a decade ago was and is much better. Maybe I just should have asked how large a yard do you have, how manicured it is, and whay your plans are for the spot. I'm long winded....See MoreCan I remove plastic from elm tree stump after one year?
Comments (9)For over 20 years I have killed the roots of remaining stumps by painting the cut surface,IMMEDIATELY, with full strength 41% roundup. Not all trees will regrow from a stump, or roots in the ground, so I use Roundup selectively. If I am asleep at the switch and miss a tree, I can still kill it by spraying the new growth with brush killer, but it will take usually three years to kill. Al...See MoreJohn D Zn6a PIT Pa
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