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Looks like VT has a problem with the commercial preparations. I wonder why?

I was wondering about that. Any effect would have to happen before the cladding wore off. I could do both. I happen to have a fairly large cache of 100% copper pennies. I drop them in a can when I take particular notice. They're worth more than 1¢ in raw material. I use them to make durable...

Well, we'll find out. I've heard of the copper thing before. It'll only cost several cents to test it, and leave some alone as a control group to see if there's a difference between them. I guess I'll have to split some and add a penny. Split others and do nothing else, or maybe add a steel...

I could split the top with an axe, then drive a penny in sideways.

Yea, I've thought of that. I bought the boss a Fiskars hooked machete two years ago, and figured he could keep up with sprout maintenance pretty easily if he keeps up with it. My uneducated thinking on the matter says that a tree trying to sprout new limbs to stay alive will neglect spreading...

Perhaps. That's why I asked. It would be interesting to setup a test bed. If I had more room and more time, that's something I might be interested in doing.

Though I'm convinced by the uniform agreement that roots will breach plastic, I'm not convinced by that pic. My thoughts on it were roots break rock and masonry by exploiting flaws. They start working on a crack, make the crack bigger, then their buddies join in and break it up. With plastic...

The willow cutting I'm doing on the farm is partly cause the boss is afraid the tree roots will punch through the pond liner. There's a decently sized willow that would look good if it stayed. My contention is tree roots won't get through the plastic, and the tree should stay. I don't know how...