hey ..... a pic would really help ...

but in my experience.. maple do that naturally.. and there is nothing you are going to do to stop it.. they lift the soil at the trunk....

and with their surface.. fibrous roots... right at the trunk.. there probably isnt any soil for you to remove.. if in fact.. i doubt you could get a shovel in there ... if you wanted to ....

your base problem.. is that you want to force an aesthetic on the way a tree naturally grows ...

why cant you just let it do its own thing???

if it were bugging me.. i would round up the grass... and throw some mulch over it.. and be done with it .. and quit trying to grow grass under a huge tree .. you know.. in nature... there are not lawns under forest trees ... just leaf litter.. aka mulch ...

the short story is.. you are fighting nature.. its natural tendencies.. with trying to grow grass there..

so instead of growing the grass.. think about solving your dilemma some other way ....

good luck

ken

Be careful using Roundup around trees, Could kill the tree.

I have a very large Magnolia that has some roots on the surface. I want to remove the grass without hurting the tree. then I plan on planting the complete lawn are with Dymondia. our neighbor with a huge pine tree planted Dymondia. i figure we will add good growing dirt or something ? to protect the tree while we plant Dymondia

Please, please, please.

If you have a project you want to do, don't attach it to a decade old thread.

Instead, start your own thread with a proper title and add pictures from several angles and a few closeups.

You'll get way more and better suggestions as most people don't like to answer an old thread.

Welcome to the boards! ;-)

what bill said.. and NEVER change the grade over a mature tree ...ken