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How To Kill A Hedge?

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    garyessexgaryessex Posts: 9,083
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    Did you succeed?
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    FlufanFlufan Posts: 2,544
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    garyessex wrote: »
    Did you succeed?

    I mean, really? Good grief.

    The hedge has probably died of old age by now, if not been redeveloped into a by-pass.
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    JulesandSandJulesandSand Posts: 6,012
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    Is nearly 13 years the record for thread exhumation? :confused::p
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    Will_BeeWill_Bee Posts: 1,567
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    Say for instance a neighbour had one of them big 40ft high leylandii hedges, how could that be killed in a discreet way?

    Obviously there might be a little law somewhere about killing someone elses hedge off, so theoretically, how would one do it without any suspicion?
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    LaVieEnRoseLaVieEnRose Posts: 12,836
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    Will_Bee wrote: »
    Say for instance a neighbour had one of them big 40ft high leylandii hedges, how could that be killed in a discreet way?

    Obviously there might be a little law somewhere about killing someone elses hedge off, so theoretically, how would one do it without any suspicion?

    I would like to know this too ;-)
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    ArmiArmi Posts: 3,317
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    Will_Bee wrote: »
    Say for instance a neighbour had one of them big 40ft high leylandii hedges, how could that be killed in a discreet way?

    Obviously there might be a little law somewhere about killing someone elses hedge off, so theoretically, how would one do it without any suspicion?

    Find the roots in your garden and keep soaking them with diesel.
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    LaVieEnRoseLaVieEnRose Posts: 12,836
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    Armi wrote: »
    Find the roots in your garden and keep soaking them with diesel.

    Thanks! I'll pass that on to the interested party.
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    ArmiArmi Posts: 3,317
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    Thanks! I'll pass that on to the interested party.

    It will of course pollute the ground around where it's done. So don't do it in the middle of your lawn, or near any of your own precious shrubs.
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    worzilworzil Posts: 4,590
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    I would like to know this too ;-)

    If the Leylandii edge is causing a nuisance go to the council.
    I know in a lot of places they are forbidden in residential housing.
    Near me people had to remove them.
    I think with other edges its better to dig them out hard work but better result.
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    Thine WonkThine Wonk Posts: 17,190
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    Hedge Murderer
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    GusGusGusGus Posts: 728
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    We removed our 20ft tall privet hedge. A gardener cut it down to stump level with chainsaws and shredded it all
    A goundworker arrived with a stump removing machine, incredible space age sort of contraption that shook the ground when working but which removed all the stumps
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    LaVieEnRoseLaVieEnRose Posts: 12,836
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    Armi wrote: »
    It will of course pollute the ground around where it's done. So don't do it in the middle of your lawn, or near any of your own precious shrubs.

    Cheers, it's not on my property but I will let them know.
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    TheEricPollardTheEricPollard Posts: 11,582
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    Armi wrote: »
    Find the roots in your garden and keep soaking them with diesel.
    Thanks! I'll pass that on to the interested party.

    Pretty excellent example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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    Fairyprincess0Fairyprincess0 Posts: 30,075
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    Has it died of old age, yet?????
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    wot-lies.aheadwot-lies.ahead Posts: 640
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    It died in an am.bush.
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    TheEricPollardTheEricPollard Posts: 11,582
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    It died in an am.bush.

    just lolled my head off.
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    OvalteenieOvalteenie Posts: 24,169
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    oh ***Damo*** from back in the day :cool: ... Hope he is doing well wherever he is now :)
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    LakieLadyLakieLady Posts: 19,722
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    Has it died of old age, yet?????

    I have a hedge that was supposedly "on its last legs" when I moved into this house. Twenty-four years later, the bloody thing is still alive and well.

    If anyone wants to discover the secret of eternal life, I recommend analysing the DNA of lonicera nitida.
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    Uncle FesterUncle Fester Posts: 15,357
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    Pour Diesel around the roots ,got rid of a big pine tree that way
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    St DabeocSt Dabeoc Posts: 3,936
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    a harsh word or a funny look works for things growing in our garden
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