New Hampshire guy is working on my house. We're swapping gardening stories. Says his grandfather cleared a field and had a bunch of stumps. He got an outlandish professional quote and decided to try it himself.

Drilled holes in the stumps, filled them with salt and watered. Well, you might guess the rest.

In their quest for salt, deer dug out the stumps- roots and all.

Just about the best gardening story I've ever heard.