Texas Gardening: Epsom Salts, 0 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Thanks Betty...I remember researching chlorosis last year but I'm more leary of putting out iron than Epsom salt. (might have something to do with our soil test results...I'll check)

We did a lot of research before buying the trees, including listening to Howard and reading thru all of his books. The tags on the trees said they were Shumard, which are supposed to do well in alkaline soils. I have heard that they cross breed very easily but I'm not real concerned with that. I'm not getting rid of the trees and can't do anything about my clay soil, although we did rent an aerator a few weeks ago.

They have actually done well but this one had the yellowing problem last year. This is actually the tree that has recently had a problem oozing something. (you replied on that thread...but I didn't have a tree die..?) Since then I have removed all the grass around the tree, uncovered the flare and doctored it with Tree Trunk Goop. Next step is the Sick Tree treatment.