What are you fertillizing with?
Was the area in softwoods or hardwoods before clearing?
Do you mulch these trees?
Are you planting at the ground level of the pot or deeper?
Are you creating a moat around the young tree to get good saturation?
Are you using a weed and Feed fertillizer on your lawn?
What do you use to fertillize;a.your lawn,b.your trees.
What is the pH of your soil?
It is odd that dogwoods(Crnus florida) could be 'bored' as they are
toxic to most bugs.,or--- are they some asian types?
Did you buy locally?What zone are you in?
Were they planted near other more mature trees?
What are these trees? How far away are you trying to plant from other
trees?Do you loosen the rootball before planting?
If I were selling you a tree to plant I would ask these things knowing
the history of your attempts and not knowing I would try to ask most of
this If I were your nursery person,I would have tried to get to the
bottom of things after the first one.Do you see sawdust around the tree
or little chunks?Do you plant the trees when they are active or dormant?
Feel free to write directly.----Holland
In a message dated 5/3/04 11:47:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
hollandsi...@charter.net writes:
If the borer beetles are coming up from debree and or the
soil---yes,tanglefoot would stop them.If the beetles are flying in
then---No.
Hmmmm -- I don't know where the heck they're coming from. All I know is
that for the past 18 years, every damn tree that I plant dies from
borers attacking it. And I feed them well, water them in drought and
spray for borers the way the nursery tells me to. I've got two young
Kwanzan Cherries dying in the front yard right now. They replaced two
Dogwoods. Which replaced two Dogwoods. Ad infinitum. Borers have also
badly damaged two young Maple trees, and my cherry (producing) tree.
I'm SO disgusted. This year I tried Diamataceous Earth for the first
time. Don't know if it's working or not. Unfortunately, I find out if
the product is (not) working by the tree dying the following year. :-(
Thanks for the info. MA
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