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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Cutting the ground around a tree root prunes the small feeder roots
which often results in the tree bearing fruit.

---- Original Message ----
From: jimfruth@charter.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Trees not fruiting
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:07:19 -0500

>mIEKAL wrote, "All, I know is I planted 4-5 Washington Hawthornes
>about 15 
>years ago & have never seen any fruit on them tho the trees
>themselves seem 
>healthy & full grown."
>
>
>    Whenever anyone asks me a similar question about their trees, I 
>recommend either or both of two procedures:  Do you fertilize your
>tree? 
>Fertilized trees may not bear fruit until their available nitrogen is
>
>reduced to that which comes with rain.  If excess nitrogen is not the
>
>problem, use a spade to cut a slit in the ground all the way around
>the 
>drip-line - I don't know why this works but folks have had positive
>results 
>by doing it.
>
>Jim Fruth
>4002 Davis Street
>Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
>
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