How do you kill tree rootswe have had a tree chopped down from outside our house because the roots were lifting the flags but now we are getting new sproutings what can we do?
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Make downward cuts in the bark of the sprouts but leave them intact. Pour some concentrated roundup into the cuts. Do this for each sprout. It may take a few attempts but after going through a couple attempts to send out sprouts, the tree will give up and die.

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The only way to make sure no more sprouts come up is to remove the stump that has been left. The root system below will always try to send up new sprouts, unless you completely remove the stump and roots. The above answer may work, but I am not sure that a tree will "give up and die".

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