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Have I killed it!

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  • 15-05-2008 11:44am
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    [Deleted User]
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    The other day I was running the strimmer around cutting long grass & weeds that the lawnmower couldn't reach.
    Unfortunately got too close to a couple of harwthorn bushes & small beech trees and stripped some of the bark off all round, I am of the understanding that a tree "ringed" this way will die as the sap can't pass an open cut.

    I have put some waterproof tape around them, what do you think my chances are of saving them?


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    #2
    10-10-20
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    Possibly not. I'd take the tape off and let nature heal or rid it.


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    old boy
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    remove the tape, place an old tyre around the bottom, fill around it with earth, plant some peas or beans, and it will never happen again


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    Just to update this thread, I forgot to take the tape off untill a couple of weeks ago.
    It was still alive and I took off the tape, still going strong along with a couple of hawthorns that got "strimmed".

    I just put grass clippings down to stop the weeds now.


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    orbiturary.

    The beech died :(

    but the harthorn started sooting up from below the strim line.

    The strimmer had been "retired" for the time being!


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