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Browning Evergreens
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| Have you noticed how some of your evergreens have a burnt look to their foliage color? We usually see this phenomenon during very, very cold winters where the ground freezes down 4 to 6 inches or more. Our evergreens which transpire (lose) foliage moisture every winter cannot replace the lost moisture due to the frozen roots not being able to draw replaceable existing soil moisture. This winter, however, has not been that cold to freeze the soil so what gives with the brownish needles and leaves. The very wet growing season of last year kept all our plants growing in wet soil. This condition weakens the roots slowing their ability to pump sufficient moisture |  |
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| into our evergreens this winter. In other words, the water pipes are there, but not operatingenough to work at their peak. This makes it imperative to feed all your plants, not just the evergreens with a root stimulator type plant food this March and early April to encourage some new, working pipes (roots) | |||||||||||||||