Gopher
ArboristSite Operative
Today, I visited three more sites with the onslaught of oak wilt (in the large red oak trees.
At one location, there is a lot jointly owned by three neighbors, and fortunately, there are more white oaks than red. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if there may be any advantage to trenching around the two (one smitten, the other I'm sure is as well -no outward signs as yet) to possibly prolong the lives of a couple other large red oaks on the property?
I'm thinking that perhaps a better use of their dollar would be to inject the whites, and remove the reds as they go down. Like I said, they do have more white than red oaks. Still, I'm going back tomorrow (oops - today, now!) to do a little measuring and some more investigating.
We've been losing some large red oaks again this year, and other than some more than average amount of anthracnose with the whites, and some chlorotic leaves, the whites are worth spending the dollar on.
Thoughts, comments, laughter - all are welcome!
Thank you.
Gopher
At one location, there is a lot jointly owned by three neighbors, and fortunately, there are more white oaks than red. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if there may be any advantage to trenching around the two (one smitten, the other I'm sure is as well -no outward signs as yet) to possibly prolong the lives of a couple other large red oaks on the property?
I'm thinking that perhaps a better use of their dollar would be to inject the whites, and remove the reds as they go down. Like I said, they do have more white than red oaks. Still, I'm going back tomorrow (oops - today, now!) to do a little measuring and some more investigating.
We've been losing some large red oaks again this year, and other than some more than average amount of anthracnose with the whites, and some chlorotic leaves, the whites are worth spending the dollar on.
Thoughts, comments, laughter - all are welcome!
Thank you.
Gopher
