Gardeners are being urged not to cut down or remove tree stumps from their gardens - because it will do more harm than good ...

Break out the rotten wood with a sharpened felling ax. For a completely labor-free removal, some manufacturers of tree stump removal chemicals suggest burning out what's left of the stump by ...

This would probably be illegal and might well kill whatever was living on the rotting tree stump, though. “Better to have decomposing wood in a garden. If you have a dying tree, let it die.