... and there was me hoping you'd been a Lumberjack! (pressing wild flowers...)
I've not run across outdoor figs (I have a ficus benjamina, but it's in a pot, and that ensures I will always be bigger and can maintain the upper hand); from your evidence, figs are almost as bad as dandelions. or lilac, for that matter.
I spoze if you put grass/lawn around the stump, if cut to/below soil level, it could be controlled easily enough, just keep mowing when you (or the gardening professionals) go by while attending to the grass.
I heard tell (and if you're still feeling bitter about the former landlord, you might want to bear this in mind), one of the nasty horticultural things to do to people (obviously to be done under cover of darkness, or otherwise undetected) is to plant potatoes under the lawn. Stick a spade into the lawn, wiggle it back and forth to create a wedge-shaped hole, drop in a couple of potatoes, stomp the grass flat again, and voila!
Unless the owners of the -er- augmented lawn dig them ALL up (andthereby leave the lawn looking like a groundhog convention, or the site of trench warfare in Flanders, circa 1917) the potatoes keep coming back and coming back and coming back - they don't need to photosynthesise for quite a while, there's a LOT of energy in the tubers / potatoes. it can take two or three years to get rid of them by mowing. Bwa-ha-ha.
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Date: 2008-05-02 04:22 am (UTC)I've not run across outdoor figs (I have a ficus benjamina, but it's in a pot, and that ensures I will always be bigger and can maintain the upper hand); from your evidence, figs are almost as bad as dandelions. or lilac, for that matter.
I spoze if you put grass/lawn around the stump, if cut to/below soil level, it could be controlled easily enough, just keep mowing when you (or the gardening professionals) go by while attending to the grass.
I heard tell (and if you're still feeling bitter about the former landlord, you might want to bear this in mind), one of the nasty horticultural things to do to people (obviously to be done under cover of darkness, or otherwise undetected) is to plant potatoes under the lawn. Stick a spade into the lawn, wiggle it back and forth to create a wedge-shaped hole, drop in a couple of potatoes, stomp the grass flat again, and voila!
Unless the owners of the -er- augmented lawn dig them ALL up (andthereby leave the lawn looking like a groundhog convention, or the site of trench warfare in Flanders, circa 1917) the potatoes keep coming back and coming back and coming back - they don't need to photosynthesise for quite a while, there's a LOT of energy in the tubers / potatoes. it can take two or three years to get rid of them by mowing. Bwa-ha-ha.