[nndl] Re: [NNADL] Losing Shade Trees

From: Monty < [at] >
Subject: Re: [NNADL] Losing Shade Trees
To: [at] , "Louis Redden" < [at] >
Cc: [at]
Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 4:53 PM

It is the 'rent' houses that have trees under stress.  The tenants don't know - the owners dont' care - or live somewhere where it isn't obvious.  No one would really see it on the water bill if they watered the trees. I have adopted some rent houses on my street and wter the trees for the tenants.  The trees are a bigger carbon offset than lawns. Water the trees!! Monty     --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Louis Redden < [at] > wrote: From: Louis Redden < [at] > Subject: [NNADL] Losing Shade Trees To: [at] Cc: [at] Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 10:17 AM Many trees were lost during the drought Steve mentioned. Yet, at that time, there wasn't a sustained heat wave. It's the combination of the high tree-root-stressing temperatures and the extreme drought, at the same time, which make this the year we could lose major shade trees; not just the little ones. The foliage may look healthy but the trees could be terminally drying out on the inside. Please, for sake of the of the neighborhood as well as your own arboreal canopy, soak those drip-line areas every week. This potentially devastating summer is an act of nature. Not taking steps to mitigate it is perverse.  From:   [at] Subject: RE: [nndl] Re: Help Watering your trees - What about Pecans ? Date: August 10, 2009 8:06:40 AM CDT To:   [at] In regards to this message: As one of the old Howard Nursery grunts I can pass on what Hank told us about water and trees: The feeder roots grow out to follow the edge of the growing canopy-the 'drip line' of the tree where the water runs off the tree and accumulates on the ground. So look up to where the tree's top reach and lay a drip line to soak.    Species adapt ( and go extinct) but your individual trees are not necessarily going to survive a drought. Hank told us back in the fifties there was a five year drought that killed an entire generation of trees in Texas under a five inch caliber so for a while the gap in the generational spread of the trees was noticeable for a period of time.   take care, Steve Coyle NNADL mailing list [at] http://northfieldna.org/mailman/listinfo/nnadl_northfieldna.org

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