browndog
5 year old buck +
I checked on my apple trees yesterday and they are loaded but there is a slight problem with a few of them. We had some high winds this past weekend and three of the trees are leaning to the east. The ground around the trunks is heaved a little, any more hard wind and I think the some roots are going to pop out of the ground. Trees are 8-10' tall and I didn't have them staked anymore. I re-staked two of them this morning and got them standing fairly straight with a t-post and I used a bungee strap to secure the tree to the stake but it seems like there was alot of pressure on the trunk of the tree and was kind of worried about the pressure on the tree from the strap. I also tamped the ground down around the trunk. Just looking for some advice on what you guys would do and if I did the right thing.
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