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  • Summer Gardening Tips

    | Category: Tree & Plant Care | Tags: watering, gardening, summer, tips
    Water trees and shrubs deeply if natural rainfall is less than one inch per week. Watering the soil and not the foliage reduces leaf spot diseases. Watering Trees and Shrubs [PDF] Replenish mulch under trees and shrubs to conserve...

  • 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...