Well, damn

[johnridley]

Our ash tree is doomed. We got the emerald ash borer. I hadn't yet gone to take a good look at it this year, but yesterday I went to prune it a bit and it's badly infested.

We have two new trees being delivered from the nursery today, when they're put in I'll use up the compost that's in the trailer so I can free up the minivan, and pull the ash out. We were hoping it would escape this, but it was always a long shot. I want it out ASAP so it doesn't provide these hell-bugs with another habitat.

Here's what the trunk looks like. If your ash looks like this, sorry.




Here's the tree. Honestly, it used to be a lot more full than this; that's also a symptom but I hadn't noticed that it really hadn't filled out yet; all the trees look thin in early spring.

It comes down today and we'll dry and burn the wood.

Comments

[guyfie.livejournal.com]

I had 40 trees infected 5 years ago that died. Now young ash trees are getting to be 20 feet tall with no signs of borer. I'm not sure if I should rip them all out, or hope the insects don't swing through Southfield again.

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

Ours all died three years ago. I'm surprised there are any ash trees left in our county.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It's just been discovered in St. Paul.

K.