Plant Identification … please [ Horticultural ]

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 13/09/2022 11:19:07

converted chapel block-paved.

MichaelG.

You might want to call in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[TrisParticipant @tris]

Posted by noel shelley on 13/09/2022 11:51:02:

Hi Tris, I understand the mention of Glyphosate but WHy add diesel ? Noel.

Makes a solution that can be painted on without too much runoff, and penetrates bark better. You can buy a forestry adjuvant that will do the same thing at huge cost

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Tris on 13/09/2022 13:57:49:

Posted by noel shelley on 13/09/2022 11:51:02:

Hi Tris, I understand the mention of Glyphosate but WHy add diesel ? Noel.

Makes a solution that can be painted on without too much runoff, and penetrates bark better. You can buy a forestry adjuvant that will do the same thing at huge cost

Adjuvant!!! My new word of the week.

Dave

[Alan Wood 4Participant @alanwood4]

Following on from the mention of tree stump killer – if you use a dilute solution of this in a plastic bottle and immerse the end leaves/shoots of ground elder, bind weed and brambles etc they merrily drink the solution and very quickly die back to the root. The immersion is more effective than just painting weed killer on.

Providing you don't want anything else to grow (e.g. pebble driveways) then a solution of salt and white vinegar is very effective.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Things took an exciting turn today …

Digging out some tree roots in the same general ares … I suddenly found this:

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I have asked the Water company for confirmation that this is my incoming Water supply pipe.

… it lines-up with the meter cover on the pavement, but it’s black and only buried a few inches deep

MichaelG.

[TrisParticipant @tris]

How that survived the concrete removal is astounding! I've managed to go through one with a spade chopping roots out before so well spotted. Good job you weren't at it with a mattock

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Tris on 14/09/2022 16:06:24:

How that survived the concrete removal is astounding! I've managed to go through one with a spade chopping roots out before so well spotted. Good job you weren't at it with a mattock

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Thanks

Good job I didn’t ask the guys to remove some soil and roots with that digger !

… Something told me that the extraction might need to be ‘surgical’

MichaelG.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

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