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Re: Arboricide

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Nick Turland wrote:

> > Incidentally, my own biggest weed, even bigger than the ivy, is the
> > common sycamore. <snip!> I'm a law-abiding soul but I confess I harbour
> > arboricidal feelings towards that sycamore, if only I could think of a
> > way to Do The Deed and not get fingered as The Guilty Party. Anyone have
> > any ideas?

Ahh...so it's not your tree you want to "off?"  :)

> 
> Well, I once heard that hammering copper nails into trees will kill them,
> eventually, but don't know if it's true. You could try injecting
> translocated herbicide under the bark.

It would leave less telltale signs!

Funny, I just had a call come through here from a woman who had a tree
die, and she wanted to look into getting testing done to see if it was a
victim of arboricide!

Bob
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