The stump is gone

[fivemack]

Took about two hours in three sessions, quite a lot of digging, the use of both (borrowed; thanks rmc28) axe and mattock, and some blisters on my hands; I'm very thankful that leylandii don't have tap-roots, I'm not sure what I'd have done in that case.

Now all I have to do is fill in the hole where the stump was, and I'll never trip over it again. Is rotting wood a good fertiliser?

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

You know, your name scans in the same number of syllables as "Lizzie Borden", so the first thing I thought when seeing that picture was "TW, with an axe..."

Good thing it was just a tree stump!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Twomac, legendary slayer of roots, depicted here kneeling over a butchered foe.

[aendr.livejournal.com]

twomack with an axe is a scary concept.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Rotting wood can use up nitrogen, because there's lots of carbon in wood. But it's great soil conditioner once it's broken down a bit.

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. You would have to chop it up into small chunks and keep it in your compost heap for a couple of years. Alternatively, if you have a woodlandie bit of garden, tuck it under a shrub and allow it to provide natural habitat for woodlice and fungus etc and watch it breakdown over the years.