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Gardening

BobTheSubgenius

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17. That's some good advice right there!

Reply to mopinko (Reply #8)

Mon May 17, 2021, 06:49 PM

May 2021

Any contusion of tree bark is an invitation to fungus or insects.

I had a friend, now deceased, sadly, that was a complete well of botanical knowledge. He taught me a lot of things like this - not just how to start and then manage something that's going well, but, more important, what to do when things aren't going all that well.

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This is the Maple Tree I thought, for sure, was dying. [View all] Siwsan May 2021 OP

What a gorgeous tree! I hope it can hang in there. 50 Shades Of Blue May 2021 #1

I have another BIG one, in the back yard. Siwsan May 2021 #2

That's a very nice picture padfun May 2021 #3

I'm always taking photos, obsessively so, some might say, trying to get a good 'frame' of my subject Siwsan May 2021 #4

You should leave some of the trunk intact. 5X May 2021 #5

I think the floors are Maple, beneath this shag and 'funeral home' style carpeting, in my house Siwsan May 2021 #6

I once bought a pickup load of white maple used from a basketball arena 5X May 2021 #7

hose out that gash from time to time. mopinko May 2021 #8

Thanks. I've got one of those 'hand pump' sprayers Siwsan May 2021 #9

i like to use one of those sidewalk sweeper nozzles mopinko May 2021 #10

That's some good advice right there! BobTheSubgenius May 2021 #17

"Nut not yet... mahina May 2021 #11

mopinko's advice sounds good, but NJCher May 2021 #12

Maple isn't one of my favs IbogaProject May 2021 #13

There are three Maples, in all. They were here when I arrived. Siwsan May 2021 #14

That ins a beautiful tree. Hope it can survive. niyad May 2021 #15

The bark split is likely not fatal... apcalc May 2021 #16