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Articles tagged Mulching

• Mulching Trees and Shrubs

  | Category: Tree & Plant Care | Tags: Trees and Shrubs, Mulching, Horticultural Care
  Mulching plants is both functional and decorative. Mulch typically is an organic material spread on the soil surface to protect roots from heat, cold, and drought, and to provide nutrients to plants as it decomposes. Once you have chosen the right...

• Caring For Newly Planted Trees and Shrubs

  | Category: Tree & Plant Care | Tags: fertilizing, Mulching, watering
  By Doris TaylorPlant Information SpecialistThe Morton Arboretum Transplant shock is fairly common in newly transplanted trees. Arboretum researchers have found that a tree can lose as much as 90% of its root system when it is removed from the...

• Plant Health Care Report June 29, 2012

  | Category: Plant Health Care Reports | Tags: genista caterpillar, oak slug sawfly, Entomosporium, bagworm, Botryosphaeria canker, Mulching, Pine needle scale, remontanent flowers, rust, spiny elm caterpillar, walnut anthracnose
    June 29,...