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How do you remove wild shrubs and trees around your yard?

February 4th, 2007 by admin

Susanna asked:


I have tons of shrubs that have grown around the fence in my back yard of the old house I have bought. Currently I just trim them to keep them in control. But eventually I would like to build a new fence and I wonder if there is an easy way to remove these (money is an issue). I live in Atlanta Georgia - so my backyard edges are jungle like.
If you just saw them off, dosn’t that mean you have to saw them off the rest of your life? Is there a more permanent solution?

4 Responses to “How do you remove wild shrubs and trees around your yard?”

  1. spacedude4 Says:
    February 5th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    With a saw and some back breaking labor.

  2. anoldorganicgardener Says:
    February 9th, 2007 at 12:10 am

    We just landscaped and had to remove twenty or so old shrubs and trees. Shrubs can be dug around and yanked out, we used a tow strap on our Blazer and yanked, they actually had very shallow roots, so they came out easy. The crab apple tree took some slow chainsawing (with an additional person on hand) and then again we yanked the stump. You may find that most will just come right out after digging!! Also, could just trim back to almost nothing and then yank/dig them out.

    Hope this helps

  3. scott h Says:
    February 10th, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    Cut them off at ground level and then apply a herbicide to kill off the roots.

    If you don’t poison them the plants will continue to require retrimming as they attempt to regrow.

  4. Gem Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    You can poison them, it will take a few applications of a product like round-up to really kill them off.

    Then cut off with saw and use an ax to cut apart the stump. For some of the older better established bushes, I had to cut the base of the root away from the runners and used a pickup to pull the root ball out.

    Or you can just use the saw and attack the stump, I have found that a stump/root ball that has been killed off for a year or so is much easier to pull out of the ground, than the roots of an alive and thriving plant.