Our tree inspection was today and the news was fair. Both our trees are doing okay, although they do have a mild case of Bacterial Wetwood. Thankfully, this is not something that necessarily kills the tree and it has no treatment. Basically we just need to trim the trees up a bit and support healthy growth. However, our ash trees probably won’t be sustained more than another decade. Why in the world people in the 80′s and 90′s thought it was a good idea to plant things that don’t belong in our climate is beyond me. But it’s such great shade for us during the summer, keeping our rooms much cooler. I hope to keep it going for awhile longer.
The tree guy did tell me it is his opinion that our outbreak of spiders is a great sign of a healthy eco-system. Sure buddy. You want’em?
We haven’t yet decided on getting the professional soil test, but we were reassured that the canker from the removed trees will not reside in the soil and planting new trees is safe. Budget willing, we may actually get those trees in this…er, decade. Yeah, money’s tight and we may not be putting them in this season after all. We’ll see, though. I do believe in miracles, ya know!
A lot of people are mentioning more spiders than usual this year. Hopefully next year they won’t be so prolific!