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Posted by Colbyt on July 9, 2009, 3:54 pm
>> blueman wrote:
>>> I took down some saplings last year (about 2-3" diameter) that were on
>>> a relatively steep hill in our front yard.
>>> Is there any simple/cheap way to speed their decomposition?
>>> It probably doesn't pay to rent a shredder plus it would be difficult
>>> to manouvre it in the hilly area.
>>> I had heard in the past of chemicals that are drilled into the trunk.
>>> I'm looking for something readily available that is faster than
>>> natural decomposition.
>> Drill holes and fill with a high nitrogen (first of the three numbers
>> is much larger than the other two) fertilizer.
> Just did that...
> How long does it take to have a noticeable effect? How long till it is
> mostly complete? Days? Weeks? Months? Years?
I had a hack berry tree (soft wood) with about a 14" base and multiple
stumps from that. I built a flower box over it out of untreated 2x pine.
We fed the flowers a lot of rapid grow and by the time the flower box rotted
the stumps were also. Estimated 4 years.
All you need is a high nitrogen fertilizer. Try to buy to ammonium nitrate
(pure nitrogen) might be a problem these days if you aren't a farmer. The
super green lawn products are about the same content at 29-0-10.
Keep it moist and it will rot faster.
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Colbyt
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> a relatively steep hill in our front yard.
>
> Is there any simple/cheap way to speed their decomposition?
> It probably doesn't pay to rent a shredder plus it would be difficult
> to manouvre it in the hilly area.
> I had heard in the past of chemicals that are drilled into the trunk.
> I'm looking for something readily available that is faster than
> natural decomposition.