I fear I've killed these peach trees... Please help!
Logan
8 years ago
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Comments (2)Laagarden: You have serious borer injury at the base of your tree. Get out to Wal-Mart or wherever else you buy your stuff, and find a box of mothballs. Push a dozen or so of them into the soil close to the trunk of the tree. The mothballs will kill the borers and prevent them from recurring, although the damage to your tree may be permanent. Renew the mothballs every season, and you will not see this damage again. Borers arrive at trees as moths, and if mothballs are there they will leave you alone. Mothballs do not damage the tree or anything else, regardless of what you may read on the internet. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See MoreHelp with Peach tree Please...
Comments (2)karen, They both get full sun and watering is the same since neither of us water our trees. BTW, part of the reason I'm thinking it's a compaction issue is because I planted 2 Persimmion trees. One is near the Peach tree and the other is in further back in the yard near woods. The one near the woods got leaves a full 3 weeks before the one near the Peach tree. The one near the woods was planted in top soil that I had brought in fill a drop off. Dang it... Now I'm wondering if it's a nutrient issue since the one Persimmon is in top soil, which probably has more nutrients. I guess I'll be doing a couple of soil tests Thursday or Friday once the ground dries out a bit....See Moreplease emergency help! 1st-time gardener-killed tree rose???
Comments (30)Hi, everyone! great news is that the Rosarian couple were very nice. I actually tried calling them last night but couldn't get through because they had their fax machine on. Then tonight they explained that they couldn't return my call because the number I had left them had been cut off by their answering machine. They too have not grown tree roses because like Karl had feared, rose trees do terrible in Kansas. Stupid me should also have thought far ahead about our tornado problems as well. I didn't think about this issue before the terrible winds this past weekend. Flower2sew, in Overland Park we got hit real bad. There is still debris from knocked over light poles on Hwy 69 from people crashing from the ice... But the snow lasted just one terrible day, it was very thick snow,and we were blasted with both ice and snow at once and in some parts of Overland Park, the cable lines and phone lines were down ...then argh, it shot up to near 60 degree warmth right the following day, then dropped down again the following evening. The rosarian couple agreed that they would never leave out the tree roses at this point because of last weekend's extreme swing of temperature (including this week) but they too felt I really needed to speak to a Master Rosarian, so they gave me the emergency helpline for the Rose Society. The nice rosarian couple I spoke to explained that they themselves have never grown tree roses because of how erratic Kansas weather can be in the spring and they said that the people they know who had rose trees all had either greenhouses or would go to a nursery and "rent" out a space for the winter. In other words they wouldn't know how to advise me on how to keep my roses indoors in my particular situation. They did feel that since my rose trees still have buds sprouting, that keeping them in a completely dark, cold, poorly insulated garage at this point is a question that only a master rosarian could answer. It is a tough call because no sane person/gardener would ever be in the crazy predicament that I am in now... I am doing crazy stuff like lightly spraying my roses with warm water in the morning and when I come home, then again before going to bed to keep them as close to a greenhouse effect and reducing my house temperature from 68 degrees to 65 so that I don't shock the roses when I bring them outside to 58 degree sunshine (but that makes me super cold indoors and I end up having to wear a few layers of clothing in the house and shivering under the covers when I try to sleep LOL). So hopefully I can reach the helpline before I get "outta control" and do more crazy outta control guesswork. Anyway, thank you EVERY One and All for your help and ongoing support! Hugs to each of you... P.S. forgot to say that to me the membership dues for the American Rose Society is very reasonable, and wouldnt have hesitated for a second had I not been so broke from all the training with Eluane and house payments but in due time if I can just make the baby steps and get both trees to survive....See MoreHELP! I think I've killed my Pin Oak
Comments (15)Just an update - the tree is officially dead. Every leaf is brown to orange. The arborist told me it wasn't necessarily my fault the tree died, because it would take more than a dog pen over its roots to kill it. He suspects that it was stressed previously by construction that took place around its base prior to me buying the property. I think he was trying to make me feel better about the situation. I've gotten a good quote for removal, $1700 to take down and leave wood on premises, $2000 to take down and remove + $125 to grind out the stump. He is willing to take $900 to get rid of the tree, letting me make a payments on the balance up to 6 months. I haven't had tree work of this size done before, but I think this is a decent price. I'm looking for a replacement tree that I can put in the bare spot. Something that will be big enough to provide shade in about 5 years. I appreciate any suggestions....See MoreLogan
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