On Tue, 14 May 2019 12:16:02 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 2:40:38 PM UTC-4, Leon wrote:
On 5/14/2019 8:01 AM, Sonny wrote:
Of the 10 trees planted, 8 are doing well, sprouting leaves, looking healthy. The two doing poorly (or may be dead) were among 5 that were trampled by cows. We had replanted the cow-affected ones.

The two poor ones seem to have small leaves sprouting from their bottoms, but can't tell for sure, as the leaf sprouts are right at or below the soil surface.... they may be of some other plant. I didn't dig to see if they are attached to the chestnut stems. The leaf sprouts look like chestnut, but also resemble other small plants in the area. These leaf sprouts are too small to be certain of exactly what they are. We should know better in a month or so, hopefully.

Sonny



I have found that a tree that is not going to do well will often sprout
leaves from the roots.

You don't need the tree, or even the stump.

My locust was severely damaged in an ice storm and had to be cut down. The
following spring I dug a huge hole around the stump, cut all of the roots
about 2-3 feet out from the stump and then ripped it out with a truck.

About a month later I came home from work and saw little plants growing all
over my yard. The remaining roots all across my yard had begun to sprout
hundreds of little locust trees. If you stood where the tree used to be,
you could follow the line of each root as it radiated from the spot.

I spent the rest of the summer ripping out the roots, obviously destroying
my entire lawn. What a mess.

The sprouts would have stopped, eventually, just by mowing the lawn
(well, you said "yard" but I assume it was mowed grass).