Death by Strimmer?

[Taupotreeman]

I'd suggest strimmer man should be purchasing a new tree.............and doing the washing up for the foreseeable future.

[agg221]

I would stick a sheet of corrugated cardboard down before the mulch (old cardboard box minus any plastic tape). This suppresses the weeds even better and the worms love the glue in the cardboard so they help aerate the soil.

 

I have seen much worse than this grow back - so long as it doesn't get silverleaf (and you should be OK for this as they are just starting to grow) you will probably find the bark grows right over it by the end of the year, the tree being young.

 

Alec

 

Alec

[treeseer]

Vaseline not a bad idea; something to prevent moisture loss.

 

In defense of your husband, when grass is grown up to the trunk, how is one to control it, with scissors?

 

Before you mulch, you might want to pull back grass and dirt and find the flare, where the first root grows off the trunk.

If you have to dig down to find the flare, that's a problem. Post an image of the flare, for more good news!

[Gary Prentice]

Guy, I think the juries still out on using Vaseline, although there's anecdotal information in another thread. Dean lofthouse used it on hornbeam and it appeared inhibitive to new growth.

 

Clingfilm to keep it moist may be affective

[treequip]

Realistically its goosed and should be replaced

 

The likelihood of it making a compete "recovery" is low, decay will set in and eventually the tree will need to be removed.

 

Do it now and confiscate the strimmer

[GTS]

may get canker after a while as it tries to repair. If you only have 1 or 2 fruit trees then try a covering product which seals the bark, its available from garden centres. I cant remember the name, you simply paint it on the areas strimmed and leave to dry. If you have lots of cherry and fruit trees then take it out as if it does get it later on then it will pass the canker on to the rest of your stock. Hope this gives a little help

[bob]

Well I think you should punish him with a good whipping

Every Saturday for the rest of his life

And if does it again you should use you wildest imagination for a suitable punishment

[Stephen Blair]

The trees will be fine, that's just a tickle!

Seriously though, that is some bad strimming, you wouldn't of known he'd been there going by the long grass.

He's sure to finish them off with the mower though

[easy-lift guy]

Did you choose to plant the tree so close to the fence do to lack of space?. Considering how large this tree can become in a few years I would have never planted any tree so close to a fence. Difficult to rationalize the damage done by your "strimmer man".

My shorter better half use to mow the lawn with the Snapper and though it was funny with myself following behind with my line trimmer or "strimmer" leveling all the streaks she would leave behind since she was to lazy to cut slower and use reverse.

She has been banned from all future Snapper use, for many good reasons.

I would suggest in future leaving all new trees with plenty of future growth space, remove all turf 24" from the trunk outward with a native type mulch as ground cover.

easy-lift guy

[woodrich]

Easy Lift Guy

The man is strimming the fence line next week.

 

There should be plenty of room for the trees by the time he has finished

 

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