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I have mounded gravel about the trunks of my apple trees thinking 
that it would keep the soil warmer in the summer and help growth a 
little but after I read that they will 'suck' the heat out of the 
ground in the fall and early winter possible making he roots colder 
that they would normally be, I decided to take it away. This I read 
somewhere, don't recall, but it strongly advised not to put gravel up 
against the trunk or around the trunk. 
Kevin


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