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  • From: "Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Girdled Apple Trees
  • Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:15:39 -0500

I see no reason where this will connect and feed the cambium in any way. I
would not even take a chance at it.
Gordon
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----Original Message Follows----
From: Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
Reply-To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [nafex] Girdled Apple Trees
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:10:44 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

Do they say what purpose this serves? Would the wax from a toilet seal
work just as well (a lot cheaper).

Thanks,
Tom

--
Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Hardiness Zone 6a

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Doreen Howard wrote:

> I found this in the current issue of The Avant Gardener--it may help the
> person with the rabbit-girdled apple trees.
>
> "When a tree trunk or branch has been girdled by an animal chewing
through
> the bark, heat some beeswax and paint it over the wound, extending the
> covering slightly beyond the injury."
>
> The newsletter recommends a beeswax-lanolin product--NuBark Pruning
Sealer.
> It can be purchased from IntAgra, 6500 Pillsbury Ave. South, Minneapolis,
MN
> 55420
>
> Doreen Howard,
> Wisconsin Zone 4b, where the snow has FINALLY melted and
> the rhubarb is peeking out of the ground.
>
>
>
>
>
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