I am in the proccess of clearing a sizable chunk of my garden in the hope of using it in future to grow vegetables. I've had to shift a lot of brambles, old bricks etc and have cut down a sycamore tree and am now left with the stump which has 4or 5 smaller stumps coming off it. As sycamore tend to regrow faste than weeds, I need to know how to kill off the stump/s. No doubt, as my project progresses, I will be returning to this part of the forum to pick your brains on the subject of establishing a successful veg plot.

I did this quite successfully with creosote but I dont think you can get it now.

Isnt there a product available from the garden centre called something like stump killer?

If you intend using the area for food growing make sure that whatever you use is suitable for use in food growing areas - some of the solutions are likely to be toxic to humans. Is the stump too big to dig out?

Yes, it would take months to dig it out so really I need one of those solutions where you drill afew holes in the stump, and then pour it in. Maybe hacking all the bark off might have the desired effect.

<- watching with interest as I have a tree that is starting to threaten my kitchen wall