Getting rid of ash

[PokHas]

Does anybody know how to get rid of ash saplings sprouting around my garden? Some I’m struggling to cut as they’re so close to the walls and they’re too bug to be just pulled out.

Can you just take a sharp pair of secateurs and snip them at the base and watch out for regrowth.
Saplings are a pain at this time of year and it really pays to get in early to pull them out. Had to dig out a sycamore sapling I missed and the root was massive already.

I’ll try that but these are quite big already as I suspect they’ve been here for a while. We moved here in March and I just had the chance to look at the garden.
Is there no way of killing the bottom bits? As I know they’ll just bring little side branches closer to the ground. I have so many of them.

I hunt for them and pull out the roots as soon as can. Once they get established they’re buggers to get out.

Your only option if they cannot be dug out is a stump killer called SBK, cut the sampling and apply the solution to the cut area.

Trees like this will damage walls, even if cut back regularly, the root ball still grows.

Oh, thank you for this, I didn’t know that!

Google using Epsom Salts to kill small stumps etc. It's meant to be more eco friendly and is certainly less expensive than chemicals

Looking at your pic, i would try and dig out slightly around the stump and then snip below ground level.

Then a bit of SBK (it’s v effective as a pp said)in a small amount directly onto the stump, and then cover.