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I'm putting a couple trees in next week so have learned ALOT these last few weeks. Seems EVERYONE has a different opinion, even here! I've talked to nurseries, Arborists, landscapers, etc and they ALL say something different. How does one know who to listen to???!!!!
So after i removed the bags; and sprayed; what about the bags i missed or did not see; they hatch and then how does this Captain Jack spray kill them???
You showed the plant feeder to bring tree back to its natural being but didn't show the chemicals close up so we can see what it looks like to PURCHASE
I just sprayed my junipers and arborvitae with Captain Jacks. However, I read that it's not effective if they already have the cocoons. Is that true? We've been so busy and I just discovered that the trees are covered in them. Should I still go out and pick hundreds off for hours or trust that the spray is going to work? Thanks for any advice!
When i start off i sit the tree while still in the container where i want it and take my shovel about 10inches back from the pot and push it down about 6inches deep making a circle around the pot ..Move the pot and start to remove the grass ...Dig my hole backfill the soil halfway up the rootball and totally flood the hole ..Go inside for 30 min and return and fill the hole . Put on a couple inches of mulch ...and what i normally do in place two of those green steel garden post one on each side just outside the 36" circle and tie the tree to the post with that 1inch wide green vinyl garden ribbon ...Just the way i do it
OMG! I found bag worms on my beautiful Japanese maple! That had never happened before. I started looking around my garden and discovered an Italian cypress about 20 feet from the maple was covered with the nasty buggers! Yeah, I'm spraying with malathion this afternoon!
This guy does not know what he is talking about .my yard man cut down my knock outs in the fall and they died because we had a FREEZE. Never cut your roses in fall .DO it in the spring.
All rose growers cut back in fall ! If you were facing a freeze you could have used mulch or straw to cover the base of plant to protect from a hard freeze !
Not really. They should be cut back in mid-to-late winter. Never leave the task to a landscaper. They will hack away in the fall to make the yard "pristine", and many times that comes from the direction of the homeowner/HOA. By the time spring rolls around, it really is too late to do a proper pruning. Anyone, and that includes the HOAs, who is considering a rose that will be maintained by a landscaper and/or be pruned with a hedge trimmer, don't plant them! There are several reasons why. Pick another shrub that can be maintained by a hedge trimmer.
Yes, you are correct. Also kills the birds. Not safe for humans to be around either. All these chemicals come with a very high price with cancer being one problem. People won’t like hearing this, but I speak the truth.
I am afraid that the soil around the tree in the container which I want to transfer to the ground is not compact and kind of loose and it will spill all over the hole and the soil will be lose all around what do I do in that case?
Wait until dormancy season when losing soil around the roots is not critical. When placed in the hole fill with soil recommended for the tree you are planting, compact it as needed and water.
As an International Society of Arboriculture Board Certified Master Arborist who has planted hundreds of trees that have all lived I can say this tree will soon die. Nearly every ANSI A300 tree planting standard was violated by this guy. He just a salesman selling his products.
I'm glad to hear your opinion on this. I just had a debate with a landscaping manager whose crew planted a rising sun redbud in my yard two years ago. The tree was half dead the following spring and died in the fall. It was planted with the burlap and wire cage. He argued with me that that was the correct way to plant. I sent him a note from another certified Arborist here in Georgia who stated to remove the burlap. Needless to say he reverted back to his 90 day warranty on trees surviving. Just seems like common sense to remove burlap, particularly in Georgia clay.
How to keep them shaped during warm weather. I first cut mine back like was done here. Looked really good for a little while. Called myself cutting the dead heads off to help others come out. Now it seems like new blooms don’t tend to come until the stem grows out a good ways past the main bush.
Better to expose the root flare and plant an extra inch to two inches high for additional girdling root removal down the road. Also allows for better drainage.
I much prefer seasonal Henbit & Chickweed (and other wildflowers) to a conventional lawn. They're both nutritious & tasty food for human & chickens alike! As these sources share: "Foraging For Wild Edibles: Henbit" hillsborough-homesteading.com/wild-edibles-henbit/ "Chickweed - A nutritious edible weed: Chickweed" hubpages.com/living/stellaria?
*It's really obvious how no one from nursery goes back and checks how trees are doing after few years.* As an Arborist I'm the one that has to tell tree owners better luck next time. Otherwise if professionals that plant trees would be interested enough coming back 5, 10 and then 15 years to see how their quote unquote planting methods really turn out. Which does not mean driving by and saying well it's alive So I obviously did okay. Once they were able to look around base of tree they'd say WTF look at all new confused adventitious Roots growing on top of the ground in all directions and especially back toward root strangled trunk. Was an empirical inevitable result of breaking the "no added grade on top of root ball surface" law. Which suffocates original root system that came with the ball and burlap producing a naturally correct radially outbound root system. Similar to spokes on a wheel. Tossing dirt inward when digging edge then stomping loosen dirt down was first increase in soil line. All mulch inevitably itself turns into soil, especially grade of this preparatory lush small particle mulch mix in video. That added cap of mulch is another addition to soil line height.
Perfect Benny Hill music for a comedy of errors. Well folks now you know why trees don't live over 35 years. And as an arborist I get called in to give folks the bad news. If only I had a time machine to go back when your tree was first planted, then I could rescue it from trunk strangling roots. Also making sure that all roots are radially outbound just like guy wires holding up a tower antenna. By completely pruning off all pot bound Roots back to before they became deflected. Trunk arrived already too deep in root ball, then surface of root ball smothered over in more added soil grade on top of already added grade burying trunk during uppotting stages in nursery. It's obvious how these well-intentioned whatever's never actually returned to see how things were progressing.
