The Results: Using Epsom Salts to Stop Stumps from Growing

When I'd originally posted the tutorial on How to stop stumps from growing back, organically!, I'd made a promise - to come back to talk about how the process went and show the results.  Well, here it is!

How to stop stumps from growing back, organically!

We were thrilled to move into a house that had an orange tree in the backyard!  Unfortunately the former owners had left it ungroomed for years.  The result - lots of baby trees were growing under the original and competing for livelihood.

We'd cut down the baby trees a few months ago, but they were persistently sprouting new shoots.  As much fun as sawing branches is...it was time for a more permanent approach.

How to Remove a Yucca - Organically

In the corner of our new yard was a mysterious stump.  It didn't take long for the true identity of the tangle of milky root - within weeks spiky green stalks began poking from the cut trunk.  We had a Yucca.