Texas Gardening: Eyesore front garden bed - would like suggestions, 1 by chuck7701

chuck7701 wrote:
Bettydee,

This is the 2001 picture for comparison. Lise stands to lose the tree more to oak decline in her area than from improving the soil and disturbing a few feeder roots. So improving the overall health of the tree is more to her favor.

Trees absorb carbon dioxide through the leaves and exhale oxygen at the root flares, not in the roots. Synthetic fertilizers can do more harm than good to the trees as it inhibits the special symbiotic fungal growth in and around the roots. Organics expedite and help this symbiosis and absorption and exchange of nutrients by feeding the soil, and not the plant.

Chuck

This message was edited Jan 26, 2009 2:04 PM