herbicides

On a recent walk through a cemetery I frequent, I noticed several tree bases that were treated with a herbicide. In the past, the previous cemetery manager told me he never used herbicides and would have his workers string trim around all the grave markers and trees. So why the change?

Check out the latest edition of the OSU Turf Team Times.

  Recently OSU Extensioneers Tim Malinich and Jim Chatfield met with horticulturists at a property in northern Ohio to look at a number of declining spruce trees. Most of the spruces on the property appeared healthy but a number had needle browning and and branch dieback, ranging from minor to severe.

  Some of the needle discoloration ascended the tree in somewhat of a spiral pattern, sometimes it was more complete, with some trees if not dead or dying, at the least becoming aesthetic liabilities. There was no evidence on the spruces at this property of any significant infectious...