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how to kill bush w/o uprooting
We are currently renting and the homeowner is refusing to get rid of this horribly overgrown bush/tree in our yard. We spent the entire weekend at the start of the summer chopping the damn thing down and taking all the branches to the dump. Only two months later it's growing back. We don't have the skill/equipement/money to have it uprooted and our neighbor suspects its grown into the bulkhead (metal that divides our yard from the canal behind us) so it might not even be able to be done.
Is there some sort of magic poison I can dump on it to kill it? I can't spend my whole life pruning this thing back into submission. Help!
Re: how to kill bush w/o uprooting
NB has a good point.
Does the owner want to keep it, or are they just not willing to spend the money/time to get rid of it?
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You live on a waterway, and you want to pour poison on plants at the waters edge?
Do you live in the mid-atlantic region, by chance? I want to make sure I don't prejudice myself if your landlord hires me.
All you have to do is girdle the tree, it's not that hard, and it is extremely safe for the environment. Take a knife and run the blade around the trunk near the soil at least a centimeter deep. Go up about half an inch and do it again. Make a third cut for good measure, if you like. Make sure the cut goes all the way around the trunk, for a complete circle. If not, it's wont' kill it.
This will cut into the vascular tissue so water and nutrients can't move throughout the plant anymore. It may live through the fall, but come Spring the sap wont' be able to travel up the trunk and it will be dead.
Disclaimer: If the shrub is as vigorous as you say, girdling very well may increase suckering. That's when the roots send up little baby shrubs because the main plant is dying. As that happens, just pull them up...