In a recent story printed in a local New York paper, David Schoenbrod rails against the city park department's policy of mulching trees for appearance over function.
Never, ever, pile mulch around the root collar of your tree. Remove old mulch before applying new, and limit it to a depth of 3-4 inches.
A tree in trouble in Saratoga, NY. (Photo by: David Schoenbrod) In 1996, after an unknown culprit drove a car over 30 saplings in a New York City park, the parks commissioner Henry Stern labeled such destruction “arbicide” and the city made the crime punishable by up to a [...]
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