spruce

This spring we will be planting around 200 Norway spruce trees (14" bareroots) to screen off a long section of road that borders our property. The trees should arrive in the first week of April and we are planning on planting them as soon as weather permits. We have a properly sized auger on our...

Today I'm going to start bud capping 1 year old norway spruce 4a plugs. Most of them are obviously quite small. If I staple a folded index card over the leader, which also happens to cover most of the tree itself, will that harm or even kill the tree this coming growing season? Many of these...