Hello – I have a very large Maple in my front yard. I believe it is an Autumn Blaze. The size is such that I can maybe wrap my arms half-way around it.
I have this little root knot sticking up in the grass 8-10 feet away from the trunk. I hit it with the lawnmower last fall when I cut the grass shorter at the end of the year. The lawnmower barely clears it during summer cutting.
Can I shave the top inch or so off of this knot? I'm not wanting to cut the whole root or anything.
by PersFinToss
2 Comments
You shouldn’t harm the roots that have surfaced. One suggestion would be to carefully remove a bit of topsoil from around the tree and make a mulch ring around it. That would protect the roots and look appealing.
I’m not an arborist, so for all I know it’s perfectly safe to cut that, but if it was my yard I would just gradually build up the ground level in the area around it by topdressing over the course of a year or two.