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.


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