H20fwler
5 year old buck +
The winter of 2018/19 we had some problems with mice&voles climbing the protective screen and girdled a few of our young five foot crabs way in the back of our shrub strips. I TreeKoted the wounds but they looked to damaged to make it. They were planted in an area where they got zero TLC after the initial planting and caging/screening. I looked at them mid-summer last year and they looked pretty much dead from it.
Last week I took a look around and one of the trees had healed over had leaves and blossoms and looked good, so I pruned and fertilized it.
Two had a bunch of suckers leafing out under the screens. I opened the screens up and the growth was above the grafts but the new branches were all twisted up, I tried to pick the best candidate for a new leader and pruned off the rest along with the old tree.
Not very pretty but hopefully I can make something out of them in the next few years with some creative pruning? Anyone ever fixed an ugly like this?
Last week I took a look around and one of the trees had healed over had leaves and blossoms and looked good, so I pruned and fertilized it.
Two had a bunch of suckers leafing out under the screens. I opened the screens up and the growth was above the grafts but the new branches were all twisted up, I tried to pick the best candidate for a new leader and pruned off the rest along with the old tree.
Not very pretty but hopefully I can make something out of them in the next few years with some creative pruning? Anyone ever fixed an ugly like this?
