Country life, as well as for summer residence, especially in spring and autumn is very diverse: there is always work whether it be building a house, site layout and landscape of the future, cultivation of vegetables, berries, fruit and ornamental trees, fish farming, and many more. All this requires time, attention and physical labor, to later harvest or build a house to enjoy his work.
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Today in this article we will focus on the trees that failed to survive the winter season, either because of their age are no longer fertile or simply withered away. What to do in this case: delete, file down, uprooted or just leave it as it is? These are the questions we will try to answer you.
In most cases unfit cut down trees, leaving stumps or uproot them, but it's not all the strength, since removal of the root system is sufficient time-consuming task. But do not despair. By stumps are not removed at the site can be approached creatively and elevate the area around it by writing your stump harmoniously into the landscape and area make it part of the decor, saving yourself from having to do the hard work and create something original and unlike the neighboring section.
To root out or leave?
Such a question is difficult to answer unequivocally yes, uproot or not, leave the stump in its place. If you think the remaining stump bring you discomfort, then the question of its removal is obvious. The main disadvantage is the root system of the tree or shrub, which, even after its removal may appear in the garden over the years. This behavior is typical of fruit trees: cherries, cherry plum, plum. Therefore, getting rid of the stumps, ask yourself how much you will interfere with this or that section of the tree. In addressing this issue, it is worth considering a few factors:
- location stump and that is next to it. If proximity are the beds, it is better to remove the stumps, so as not to reduce the harvest, and if it proved to be a stump next to the flower bed, it fits perfectly into the landscape;
- frequency processing portion, on which stands a stump. If every season you need to dig up the soil around the plant is transplanted stump, its root system will complicate your job, so - a tree stump to be removed completely from the root. If you are around the stump blooming perennial flowers and it does not cause any inconvenience, it is necessary to leave it and ennoble flowerbed given decorative characteristics, its height, presence or absence of propensity to produce shoots, etc. The exceptions are very rotten, old and rotten stumps, pest infestation. Also, for a flower garden is not suitable pine and spruce, as their wood is very short-lived, as contained in the resin it can not give the plants develop. Best fit the remains of fruit trees, oak, maple and so on. Bear in mind, the thicker the stump, the wider and more luxuriant will be your bed.
How to decorate a beat or a stump on the site?
To create a flower bed do not fit any rotten stumps. To arrange them nicely and beat, make it more interesting and unusual, it is necessary "to include" the fantasy and give free rein to creativity.
Here are a few options for how you can beat the stump:
- "Rainbow Tree" - if a dead tree has not yet been cut down and should your future masterpiece in a prominent place, offer to create modern organic sculpture, which is included in your design will be the attraction of attention to all family members and friends. To create a sculpture made of wood, it is very useful brush and paint on wood for outdoor use. Just paint the tree in bright monochrome colors (red, orange, green), relying on the taste. Upon completion of the work remains to wait for the complete drying and the sculpture is ready. The tree can be decorated with street garland, or hang a little satin ribbons as decoration element
- "Stump as a prop" - one of the best options for its use in the garden. For example, the story pointer or a funny inscription bird feeder, nailed a small piece of plywood. Your creative imagination are always welcome and do not be afraid to experiment.
- "Stump mushroom - as a bright garden decoration" - to make a very simple decor. Painting the stump - the future Stipe, paint for the exterior, take a leaky at home bowl, turn it upside down and fasten to SPIL 2-3 nails. Stained "mushroom cap" on your mood and the presence of color. Mushroom ready. Think of any image that corresponds to your site, and make it happen.
- "Stump - flower" - one of the most common options to refine the garden area. You will need: a small ax with which to cut through a hole in the center of the stump. Its depth depends on the decision to put him in a flower pot or directly planted in his plant. When you have achieved the desired result, process your stump antiseptic as possible cover the varnish, it will make your flower more durable. Thereafter, sleeps layer of stones to drain, fill soil, rich in minerals, and precipitated with beautiful colors. Alternatively, well suited succulents, which are at the height of fashion and landscape design widely used for decorating the Alpine hills, rockeries, creating unusual compositions pots. Other color options are no less attractive: petunia, bluebells, marigolds, geraniums, pansies, cornflowers, saxifrage, thyme, host, Heather, Heuchera. Decorate the finished flower garden any decorative object (statuettes, figurines, bird feeders).
If you like our design ideas stump, use them in the design of your garden and create a unique corner.
Methods of getting rid of stumps
If you do decide to return to the space corresponding to the type and use of the space on the stump in its purpose, it is necessary to get rid of them.
The process of removing tree stumps are not always associated with the use of special equipment and call the professionals, it is possible to remove them yourself using only the means at hand and materials.
Consider two approaches to the destruction of stumps - a chemical and physical. The chemical method (without uprooting) based on the processing of wood residues reagents which accelerate the process of destruction and lead to complete burn during combustion (e.g., using sodium nitrate or potassium, more known as a nitrate, ammonium sulfate or chloride sodium). These substances are able to kill the root system of the tree. Main Use caution and use protective equipment when working with chemicals, to avoid poisoning.
The physical method - uprooting using shovels, saws and axes. To remove the stump yourself, you will need helpers. First of all, we clean the stump from the surrounding land. Alternatively dig about half a meter space around the stump using a small bayonet spade and cast aside land shovel; or at a distance of 1-2 meters from the stump dig a pit depth of about 50 cm - 1 m and begin to wash the ground around the stump water. If the trunk is not very wide, the tree can be easily shatter and try to pull it out, if not, use a winch firmly secure it to the other tree.
There is another way to remove the stump - speed up the process of decomposition by any herbaceous perennial with a powerful and deep root system (this may be Stachys, chrysanthemum, maiden grapes). It is only necessary to make a small indentation in the center of the stump to fall asleep necessary amount of land and densely planted plants. Of course, if you have decided not to put this kind of plant, just okuchte stump and overlaid it with compost. A few years later a stump turned into dust, and it will be easier to remove.
In any case, the uprooting and removing the stump takes more time and effort than its preservation and decoration. Whatever decision you have taken for themselves not: keep the stump and make it the center of attention, or remove it completely - do not forget about security measures.
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