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  • From: "Kris Martin" <mars47@iinet.net.au>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: help! tree vandals
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 07:37:25 +0800


Mik, perhaps the tree needs some more biomass? In this event the hatchet
would become a valuable tool, hehehehe!

"If ELECTRICITY comes from ELECTRONS does MORALITY come from MORONS?"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikal Jakubal" <mjakubal@asis.com>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 11:48 PM
Subject: help! tree vandals


> Hi all,
> Thanks for the replies to my post a couple days ago. There's something I
> need some immediate advice on and maybe someone out there can help. I live
> across the street from this family of ignorant, violent, evil cretins
> (comparisons to some of the characters in the movie "Deliverance" come up
> frequently). They more or less leave me alone now (after three years of
> harassment), but occasionally get bored and start in again. The short of
it
> is that one of the wretched little monsters girdled my old apple tree
> yesterday--apparently as revenge for me telling him not to climb the fence
> and break the branches. It's the only mature producing tree on the place.
> The girdling is at least 3/4 complete and about 6"-8" wide (done with a
> hatchet). Any first-aid suggestions? I've heard of grafting twigs from the
> tree across such wounds--will that work this time of year? There's still
> some continuous bark left, so the tree probably won't die--just yet--but
> will be seriously weakened.
>
> Thanks,
> Mikal
>
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