Tips For Avoiding Frost Damage In Your Trees

Tips For Avoiding Frost Damage In Your Trees

🌲From the tree expert himself – Toso Bozic at Yard Whispers – offers some management options for mitigating impacts from frost crack in your trees.

  • Prune / remove dead or damaged branches
  • Maintain adequate soil moisture levels to promote healthy bark and wood
  • Avoid fertilizing late in growing season and add wood chips may avoid incidence of frost cracks
  • Avoid or minimize stress factors such as compacted soil, improper planting depth and mechanical damages that causes the tree to become more vulnerable.

For more info, visit: https://yardwhispers.ca/frost-crack-damage/

Pictured below is the same tree during winter and summer