On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 11:48:05 AM UTC, Spider wrote:
On 23/03/2014 23:50, MattyF wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:32:35 +0000, harryagain wrote:

You can buy a fungus to infect it with.
Gets rid of most stumps (by rotting) in a couple of years. Forestry
people use it.

I went for a walk in the forest and collected all kinds of rotten timber.
I put that on top of my tree stump, and after a few months it went rotten
and was easily chopped out with a pick axe.




I'm glad it worked for you. In principle, it's a good idea, but you
could have introduced Honey Fungus or other problems. I wouldn't
recommend it.

Possibly. In practise though, there's probably Honey Fungus (*) spores
already present in the garden. All he's done is increased the dose on
the stump. If there was a dying tree adjacent to the stump, bringing in
the rot might hasten it's end, but that's all.

(I am assuming that "the forest" is within a couple of miles, rather
than 50 miles away.)

*: Or whatever the NZ equivalent is.