Tag: roots
Drought Tolerance Necessitates Root Dispersion
UNITED STATES—Fads certainly complicate gardening. Most are merely marketing tactics. Most are bogus. Many even contradict their justifications! For example, most new, trendy and...
Roots Prefer To Roam Freely And Extensively
UNITED STATES—Roots are innately mysterious. They consume much of the resources that plants require. They stabilize the stems above them. Few plants can survive...
Bare Root Stock Must Be Planted Properly
UNITED STATES—Most of the advantages of bare root stock are obvious. Bare root stock is less expensive and easier to work with in regard...
Good Roots Are Seldom Seen
UNITED STATES—When a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? Of course...
A Tree Falls In The Forest
UNITED STATES—A Great Basin bristlecone pine tree of the eastern Sierra Nevada can live more than five thousand years. A giant sequoia tree of...
To Mulch Is Not Enough
UNITED STATES—Most plants would prefer the real thing; how they do it in the wild. They drop their leaves, flowers and twigs. Deciduous plants...
Summer Is Not For Planting
UNITED STATES—Autumn is the time for planting. Cooling weather slows plants down so that they do not mind disruption so much. Increasing rain (hopefully)...
Figs Are Easy To Propagate
UNITED STATES—The easiest way to propagate new fig trees may seem to be violent, but it works. Basal shoots that grew last year from...
