Neighbor has a tree that shits leaves and gunk all over our back patio and the roots are coming under our fence and fucking up our concrete. I want to start spraying the limbs hanging over our fence with salt water and pour buckets of the stuff down on the roots if necessary. Approx how much salt am I going to need and how long do I need to keep dousing it to see this tree dead? Tree is approx. 20 foot tall and 10 years old.
Salt water’s a fool’s game, you’ll never kill a grown tree that way. Look into limb girdling
I don’t want to go on their property. I don’t even want to reach over the fence line. I want to use science and chemistry to murder the shit out of the parts on my side of the fence. As a welder, my first instinct was actually to use fire. However, the officials around where I live are particularly jumpy about starting fires. Its not like I wouldn’t have a running hose in my other hand.
In which case, why not just spray herbicide on the limb? You’d need a constant supply of gallons of saltwater over several days to really stop it
Don’t give him advice, for fuck’s sake. He’s the bad guy in this scenario.