Watering the Black Walnut Treets 07/12/23
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It's been a dry summer, so far. Forecast keeps calling for rain, but
the sky only delivers clouds, mostly.
Last summer was dry, too. It was apparently hard on one of the three
black walnut trees behind our house, which suffered from what is known
as Sudden Limb Drop. The large limb that tree shed, landed on a bit of
chain-link fence. It made a gnarled mess of the fence (I cut out that
section, now we have a nice entry to the back part of our yard), but
did give a friend of mine some nice wood to put on the lathe, and left
plenty of smaller scraps for us to burn in the fire pit.
This year I decided to water the trees. They have a large root system
(and an herbicidal one at that!), but I've been watering them at the
base mostly. Just let the hose run for a while on each one. Probably
need to run it in the yard under the canopy, where the roots run.
That'd help the grass out too, I suppose.
There might be some rain tonight, but I'm getting a little worried
that the weather folks just don't know what's they're doing after so
many failures. If not, perhaps I'll water the yard tomorrow.
