I bet if I suggest this to my two sons (10 & 12) that stump won’t stand a chance.
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I’ve not done it, but a dairyman from Ohio, on one of the grazing management groups, swore that his Amish neighbors would just back the manure spreader up to large stumps in land that they were reclaiming from forest, dump a load of manure on/over it, and a year or so later it would be so rotten that they could just hook to it with a team and it would come right out.
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This is super helpful @don1357.
I have friends who are removing 2 older ornamental trees from their yard and want to plant in fruit trees.
The tree service tells them that they can grind the stumps about 12-18 inches into the ground.
On top of that, I think if we use your method of a large amount of nitrogen fertilizer, then would you guess the spot might be ready for a new tree in a year?
mulch, compost, potting soil on top, NZ spinach patch. it’s worked well for me as a planter; it’s decayed way faster than the one that’s empty but ground down further
not sure why it posted before I was done
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Ten years ago I planted a little herb garden in a stump. It was at least 5 years since the tree was cut. I made a depression with a chainsaw, I may have drilled a couple of drain holes too, probably wasn’t necessary. They probably died from lack of watering after a couple of years, and since I’ve ground all of the stumps out that were in our cleared portion of property. I’m gradually uncovering more.
15 years in, some of these stumps still smell like framing lumber when cut a few inches in from the bark. I’d be waiting decades for them to go away on their own.
I can’t find the photo with the herbs in it, I guess I can add it when it turns up.
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Does not look like that stump has been bothered by anything. I would drill holes and add oyster mushroom spawn plugs.
Shop Mushroom Plug Spawn | Grow on Logs, Stumps & Totems – North Spore
Also very cute.
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