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Old 17-06-2015, 12:04 PM
mike505 mike505 is offline
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Red face To kill a pine...

Hi folks,
We recently moved house and there's a dirty great pine in the back garden that is taking over, its nearly as tall as the house and is about 1 1/2 ft in diameter. I hate the thing and would like to replace it with a matured tree of another variety however the Mrs wants to keep it... is there anyway I could subtly kill it? I know I could probably just drill a few holes at the base and fill them with roundup, copper sulphate or just napalm the bugger but something that fast would be obvious. Is there anything I could to to promote rot or disease? would digging up and ring barking the roots and then re-burying them work?
Thanks in advance for any help!!!