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- How can I remove a corkscrew willow?
- preparatory work
- To remove the corkscrew willow with stump and stalk
- Hammer off small roots
- Tips
The larger the corkscrew grazing, the deeper the roots reach
How can I remove a corkscrew willow?
Those who refrain from pruning their corkscrew pasture will have to deal with a monster within a few years. Above ground, the winding branches stretch up to 8 meters towards the sky, while the long root strands resemble them underground. Find out how to completely remove an oversized Salix matsudana.
preparatory work
To bring the exhausting project to a tolerable level, the well-considered preparation makes a valuable contribution. The choice of the best possible tool for the removal of the powerful root strands plays into it. How to do it right:
As a tool should be available: a spade, a digger fork, a saw and a Hoehopfhacke (Rodehacke). The hoopoe hoe, in particular, makes the work noticeably easier. As a symbiosis between hatchet and hoe, the tool takes it with the strongest roots.
To remove the corkscrew willow with stump and stalk
It is an incontrovertible fact that every pasture drives out again while its roots are still in the ground. The radical pruning is thus only the overture of the core work. How to finally eliminate the corkscrew grazing:
With the next blow turn the hoe hoe in seconds, so that you lift the rhizome out of the ground with its beak, without heavy earth on it. Dig up the rootstock yourself completely. If space permits, place a chain around the stump and pull the root ball out of the ground with a towing vehicle.
Hammer off small roots
So that you only have to accept the thickest rhizomes with hatchet and hoe, tap the rhizome first with a hammer. The smaller roots dissolve by themselves and are only dug up.
Tips
The removal of a corkscrew grape must be completed by the beginning of March. The federal nature law provides for shrubs, hedges and trees from 1 March to 30 September, a grandfathering. The purpose of this regulation is the protection of breeding sites within woody plants of all kinds. During this time only care cuts of a maximum of one third are allowed.