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I have a ridiculous problem:
I have this fantastic 5 year old Myer's Lemon in the ground.
Last year it bore some 500+ fruits, is about 15 ft.
wide and 6 feet tall. It overwinters with Xmas lights
that come on at dusk.
A pesky squirrel that has since met his maker used to
strip my pecan trees. He buried one under this fruit
tree and it sprouted. It is about two feet tall almost
directly next to the trunk. My experience with pecans
is that the tap roots go soooo deep I have no hope of
digging this out, especially since I'd need a suit of armour
just to get at it. Also, I used to do container gardening
near my pecans on a slab. When the loose pecan stuff started
to fall it would kill almost anything in a pot, just like
my old black walnuts did. So I quit that.
That leaves me in a bit of a fix. Should I:
A)Leave the tree alone, hope it doesn't adversely affect the
lemon, and maybe even give it some overhead coverage one day.
B)Chop it at the soil line every year.
C)Use something not-to-toxic like rock salt to kill it after
drilling it, and hope it doesn't hurt the lemon.
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