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What is the surest way to permanently kill a junk tree besides cutting a full ring around the trunk's bark?In: Home and Garden [Recategorize] |
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A herbicide called Velpar 2cc per inch of trunk at chest height
There are several types of herbicide to eliminate a tree, you just need to be careful as some will be soil active, meaning it will stay there and kill other vegetation too.
If you can get the tree down, flush off the stump and use a herbicide around the outer cambium layer. This is the living tissue just inside the bark, and you don't need to treat the whole top. Look at the labels in the store and look for the active ingredient tryclopyr or picloram. Usually if you can buy it off the shelf, it is non restricted. These are in many of the brand names you can get at a home store. If you can't get the tree down, you can treat the outside, spraying from knee height down to and including the root flare. Be warned, some trees may be attached to the root systems of other trees(locust is an example), and if you treat one, others around it can die too.
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