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Cliché will this kill the tree question
The previous homeowner covered a huge area of the yard with tarps and a bad landscaping feature. I’m removing it all now and just pulled up the tarps and the adjacent tree has all these roots at grade. I wanna plant grass here, but the ground so compact that it needs to be tilled a little bit, but I can’t do that with all the roots. If I cut all these roots back at the grass line how likely am I to kill this tree?
u/Jdlindberg89 — 5 days ago