# I'm In A Herbicidal Mood

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-a-herbicidal-mood/186305>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 4, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-a-herbicidal-mood/186305 "2003-07-04T23:03:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-a-herbicidal-mood/186305/1 "2003-07-04T23:03:58Z")

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I’ve got a couple of young saplings that are growing up next to the trailer, and I need to kill them. I tried chopping them down last year, but they’ve grown back bigger than ever this year. So how do I kill 'em? I don’t care if it kills the grass around them as well, I just want 'em dead. (Of course, I don’t want to poison myself in the process.)

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**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-a-herbicidal-mood/186305/2 "2003-07-05T00:06:51Z")

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Cut them down, and apply (brush) Ortho Brush-B-Gon on the stumps. Toxic to the plants, but avoids collateral damage. Wear rubber gloves

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-a-herbicidal-mood/186305/3 "2003-07-05T00:40:59Z")

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Brush-B-Gon works great on weed trees.