Fall is an excellent time of year to prune trees for winter safety. Woody Shrubs can also use pruning at this time of year if you avoid pruning spring flowering shrubs to make sure you have blooms on them next spring. Fall is the best time to feed the root systems of trees and shrubs. Be sure to keep leaves raked off the lawn and beds all through the fall and winter.
There are various ways to deal with tree stumps and roots, depending on how quickly you want the stump to be totally gone. True Care Inc., along with most Arborists, offer a procedure called “Stump Grinding”.
A pH of 7.0 is considered “neutral”. Soils with a pH lower than 7.0 is an acidic soil and one with a pH higher than 7.0 is alkaline.
Powdery mildews appear as white or gray powdery growth on the surface of leaves in the garden. This is rarely a fatal disease however; infected plants are unsightly and can make fruit and flowers unmarketable.
Parasitic wasps parasitize a variety of insects such as aphids, caterpillars, beetle larvae, flies and hornworms, at different growth stages. Few species of parasitic wasps sting, and then only when they’re mishandled.
Mulches can have many positive effects on soil. If done improperly, mulching may harm, or even kill the trees and shrubs you are trying to enhance.
Rose Diseases In the upper Willamette Valley we have extended periods of moisture, including, rain, dews, fogs and high humidity which create ideal situations for the fungal diseases that plague Roses. We can minimize these conditions with a few simple rules. Always plant rose cultivars known to be resistant in your area. Remember, “resistant” does [...]
Moss and Lichens on Trees and Shrubs The bark of some trees and shrubs can develop fungi, algae, lichens or moss. These are non-parasitic organisms that do not injure the plants on which they grow. Lichens and Moss develop on vigorous plants to some degree in areas where the humidity is high, as in our [...]
