From Tom Vigue, Dec 2020: The way I manage my plum grove: It consists of sprouts coming up randomly from the ever-expanding root system, a clone essentially. But then I graft selected varieties onto some of the sprouts, leaving others wild. One can thusly have the best of both worlds….
COMPARTMENTALIZATION OF DECAY IN TREES. How trees respond internally to wdounds from mechanical damage, pests, and limb breakage. U.S. Forest Service, Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 405, July 1977 publication. If you’v ever seen a wound on a tree and wondered what it looks like inside the tree, this is where…
Why Fresh is Best When it Comes to Mulch by Linda Chalker-Scott on Garden Professors website, “Advancing the science of gardening and other stuff since 2009”. Feb 2021 article about using freshly cut wood chips as mulch around woody perennials, and how mulching perennials is different than mulching annual crops….
