A fungus killed a tree and needs to be removed. Clearing for new beds.
VIDEO: Clearing out a diseased tree and clearing for new beds.
A fungus killed a tree and needs to be removed. Clearing for new beds.
A fungus killed a tree and needs to be removed. Clearing for new beds.
what do u do about the rust that gets on apple trees
Sad about your tree, good idea to burn it! Many insect are a vector to fungal diseases anyway, burning it should take care of disease and pest eggs. This summer my plum tree got brown rot, I treated it with a whey spray I made, so far no trace of it, fingers crossed!
won't bounce back now. LOL Best thing for a tree and yes was most likely in the mulch,
Difficult to say what killed your tree. Maybe it`s a combination of many things. I agree with burning the logs and branches to be on the safe side. The woodpeckers are able to hear at once if there are any larvaes, beetles or ants inside the bark, and they can really go for them. 🙂
Hope you the new beds do great. The charcoal and ashes from the burnt wood will give the soil a good and useful potash boost.
All the best,
Halvor.
It's a shame about that tree. Probably a good thing that you burned it. I hope you get a great crop in those beds next year.
I think your problem is borers. They lay the eggs and when they hatch out under the bark they feed and then make a hole in the bark to leave the tree. Usually the holes are scattered around the bark on the tree and not just in one place. They destroy the cambium layer and when it is no longer attached completely around the tree, the tree dies because the bark is no longer attached to the tree. Just like what a beaver does to trees. That is why all of the living tissue died above the damaged bark on the tree. There are several borers that attack stone fruit trees. One type does it about a foot and a half above the ground on the trunk. Another enters the tree above this level. Bark can also become detached if the soil is too wet. Inside the healthy bark is usually a yellow color and if it died from too much water it would be a darker brownish color. The escape holes would lead to borer damage being your problem. Woodpeckers will peck holes in the bark to get at the borers but you would have more holes and they ususally do it in dead or diseased trees. Sapsuckers put many shallow holes in a pattern in healthy trees to gather the sap that would appear in the holes. These holes do not kill a tree. Apple tree rust comes from close proximity to Cedar trees from wind bourne spores. Bernard