Hot weather & summer equal lots of house work, including wrangling those runaway trees in your fence line! If you are like me & avoid toxic chemicals at all costs I offer you some earth-friendly solutions :-)
1.Destroying the Bark:
"If the food-transporting phloem is severed all the way around the tree
(a process called "girdling"), food cannot be carried to the roots and
they will eventually die. As the roots die, so does the tree. Periods of
rapid growth, usually from March until June in North America, are the
best times to girdle a tree. These spring growth spurts are when tree
bark "slips". The phloem and cork layer easily peels free, leaving the
cambium and xylem exposed.
Remove as wide a section of bark as you have time for to make an
adequate girdle ring. Then scrape (or chop) into the surface of the
xylem to remove the cambium. If any cambial material remains, the tree
will heal by overgrowing the girdle. The best time to girdle is before
the trees leaf out. The process of leafing out will deplete energy
stores from the roots, which stores cannot be renewed if the phloem
conduit has been interrupted."
-I've used this on small & medium size trees with great results!
2. If you cannot girdle you can chop down your tree & drill holes vertically into the stump, once drilling is complete pack drill holes with salt.
Happy tree hunting!
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