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Articles tagged drought

• April 5, 2013 issue of Plant Health Care Report

  | Category: Plant Health Care Reports | Tags: weather, voles, salt damage, drought, growing degree days
    This issue contains information ongrowing degree daysweather, drought, salt damage,vole damage   To download the pdf of the Plant Health Care Report click here    

• Drought Care

  | Category: Tree & Plant Care | Tags: drought, summer, tips, watering
  Weather extremes and the prospect of continued global warming require us to understand the special care trees need in the event of drought. Drought stress develops in plants when the available soil water becomes limited. As this happens, young...

• Plant Health Care Report July 6, 2012

  | Category: Plant Health Care Reports | Tags: abiotic leaf scorch, annual cicada, Anthracnose, bullseye leaf spot, drought, earwig, filbert blight, magnolia scale, Rose curculio, sooty mold, tar spot
    July 6,...

• Drought Stress

  | Category: Tree & Plant Care | Tags: drought
  By Doris TaylorPlant Information SpecialistThe Morton Arboretum According to weather predictions, the Chicago area is destined for a long, dry summer. If landscape plants are not maintained properly, excessively dry soils can cause roots to die,...

• Plant Health Care Report June 15, 2012

  | Category: Plant Health Care Reports | Tags: bacterial blight, Cedar-quince rust, Chlorosis, drought, Euonymus scale, galls, Japanese beetle, mosaic virus on katsura, watering
    June 15,  2012                                            ...

• Tips for your Trees: Water, water, water.

  | Category: Tree & Plant Care | Tags: weather, drought
  According to experts at The Morton Arboretum, this year's drought is causing serious stress for trees. Here are some tips on watering trees and other plants. WHEN AND HOW TO WATER YOUR TREES Check the soil. To check the soil's moisture, either...