Moan, Moan, Moan - 2012

[art600]

How can I reliably kill Elderberry bushes.  I thought I had achieved this several times but they keep coming back.

The roots are too big to dig out and in a relatively inaccessible place.

Currently thinking of drilling holes in the trunks and putting a chemical to kill off the roots.

Thanks in advance

[Gerry]

Chop hard back in March, feed well and water with brushwood killer in May.

An African cultivation hoe is very good for getting roots out. Try e-bay.

[mark smyth]

I killed mine by spraying the leaves with weed killer

[David Nicholson]

How can I reliably kill Elderberry bushes............... 

What! and miss the opportunity of making red wine (paint stripper) with them

[art600]

Chop hard back in March, feed well and water with brushwood killer in May.

An African cultivation hoe is very good for getting roots out. Try e-bay.

Gerry

My pal has his special spade from BT and we thought we had dealt with them - they keep coming back.

Must find the right chemical to fill the holes I will drill in the trunks.  Elderbery is a menace in a garden - though I am partial to elderflower cordial

[Anthony Darby]

I had a balsam poplar in the corner of the garden and when I chopped it down the roots suckered all through the garden and even destroyed the pavement, coming up through the tarmac of the footpath other side of the garden wall. One spraying with brushwood killer in the late summer killed it.

[fermi de Sousa]

Oh Fermi!!  That must be heartbreaking.   Does it usually flower for you?  Not a first flowering I hope?  I have fingers crossed that I may finally get a persica seedling big enough to flower next year...... maybe.

Paul,
No, not the first flowering; I got it flowering size from a friend who thought it would do better at our place! Last year I posted a pic because I'd moved it in growth and though it hadn't produced top growth when I moved it what did merge looked a bit distorted though there was no problem with it this year - till the cockies hit!

Maggi,
we are responsible cat-owners and the moggies are all inside at night and early hours; besides, Lachie wouldn't know what to do with anything larger than a mouse!
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Mark S,

Not sure where else to ask this, so thought here would be as good as any.......

Why do you have your eyes closed in your avatar pic?  Seeing no evil as one of the wise monkeys? 

I just had to ask, as an interesting choice.  I realise perhaps those who have a deceased pet still as their avatar perhaps shouldn't be throwing the first stone. 

[Anthony Darby]

To look inscrutable? Empathy with bats? Sun too bright?

[Maggi Young]

Why do you have your eyes closed in your avatar pic?

 Unless I am very much mistaken, that's a classic "I'm taking the sun" pose - can be seen in any place where the sun appears infrequently and so the populace is keen to soak up as many rays as possible, while it lasts.....
Fat lot of use here, where by the time one has  found the sun lotion and applied it, the weather is more than likely turned right around and you need wellington boots and waterproofs to even venture outside....

[J.B.Wyllie]

Lovely sunny day here in Sunny Dunnie but yesterday ugg The A 9 south  after the Little Chef was like a river till it reached a dip then poured the 'water' into a garden  and house beside the road. Craig my daughter's husband was on the train from Glasgow that was derailed between Bridge of Allan and Dunblane by a land slide It took well over an hour to decide what to do.The passengers were not allowed to leave the train? Health and safety!!!Craig got home 4hours later

[Maggi Young]

Bright here too, today, but really cold wind.
Good to hear  thatCraig got home in one piece eventually, Jean.
I heard about the derailment on the radio and it sounded pretty scary.

[Anthony Darby]

I've seen pictures from Dunblane and Bridge of Allan. Not seen anything like it in 35 years of living in Dunblane.

[Anthony Darby]

Now it's optional Gerry

Not surprised. Where would it get you? Teaching? When I started teaching over 30 years ago it would have taken me about 10 years to earn the annual salary of a top CEO. Now it would take me over 300 years!

[Darren]

Lovely sunny day here in Sunny Dunnie but yesterday ugg The A 9 south  after the Little Chef was like a river till it reached a dip then poured the 'water' into a garden  and house beside the road. Craig my daughter's husband was on the train from Glasgow that was derailed between Bridge of Allan and Dunblane by a land slide It took well over an hour to decide what to do.The passengers were not allowed to leave the train? Health and safety!!!Craig got home 4hours later

Indeed the important thing is that he got home safe.

The west coast main line runs along the bottom of our garden. I was on a train home once that broke down exactly there but they wouldn't let me get out and scale the fence!