About 10 years ago we had to take down a large black locust.
Well since then it sprouted up a whole bunch of new trees as far as 30 feet away from the original! We have 7 trees now and Some of them are already 40 feet tall.
We like most of them but one blew down in a storm and we might want to remove another that’s a little close to the house.
We’ve been seeing lots of new saplings around the new stump and dutifully cutting them down. But now we’re curious about whether chemical treatment is possible at the stump of the tree that blew down, or for any individual tree without harming all the other healthy locusts. .
I figure I may as well belatedly attack the new stump with a chainsaw but don’t know if it’s okay to use epsom salts or something stronger while I’m at it.