Well, damn
Jun. 4th, 2009 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyOur 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.
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.
