Are you ready to well-come winter, the extreme coolness, the white snow old-man? What about your evergreen trees? Have you forgotten to take the necessary precautions to protect trees in winter?

For winter tree protection, you must follow some specific steps to keep your trees safe and secure during extreme cool. Let’s explore it below:

1. Tree Wrap For Winter:

Tree wrap for winter is one of the most crucial tactics to protect tree damage during winter. It’s the process of covering the tree trunk by different materials such as burlap, polypropylene fabric, paper product, or corrugated cardboard.

Why do you wrap a tree trunk? To protect your trees from sunscald injury, wrap the tree trunk. Sunscald is also known as a southwest injury because this problem mostly occurs on the southwest side of tree trunks, especially on new plants.

What is Sunscald or southwest injury? Sunscald or southwest tree injury is the damage that happens to the bark of trees due to the high temperature of the sun during winter.

In the winter season, trees remain dormant, and all activities in trees slow-down, including growth, energy consumption, etc. But when trees get exposed to the high temperature, dormant cells of the tree become active.

The problem arises when the sunset or suddenly the temperature gets drop down below freezing point those active cells get damaged. To prevent this tree damage, you need to wrap your tree trunks properly. Once spring arrives, unwrap your trees, free them and let them get exposed to sunlight.

2. Tree Mulching & It’s Benefits:

What is mulching and its advantages? Mulching is the method of spreading a layer of organic material such as recycled leaves and grass clippings around the tree base. Tree mulching provides lots of benefits to your evergreen trees.

Mulching provides nutrition to the tree and allows the soil to absorb water that sweeps deep into the soil, and makes water available for the tree root. Also, mulching prevents loss of moisture and keeps the temperature moderate to protect the plant from getting frozen.

3. Watering Trees In Winter:

During winter, trees remain in the dormant mood. Generally, they do not need water. But, you must pour water to your trees if the temperature is above 40 degrees and when there is no snow cover.

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It will keep the ground around the tree filled with moisture from where roots can easily absorb water for the tree.

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4. Manage Snow Damage:

Due to heavy snowfall, the weight of your trees may increase and gradually fall on the grown. But be careful, do not force or shake the tree branches because it may break down.

It is better to carry a broom attached with a long stick to brush off the snow cover. That will reduce the weight of the tree and protect it from getting damaged.

5. Winter Salt Damage To Your Trees & Shrubs:

Due to salt damage, the leaves of trees & shrubs get brown, and it can eventually kill the tree. It happens when you grow your trees by the road-side, where salt spray is most common.

How To Protect Your Trees From Salt Damage? The best way to prevent salt damage to your trees is to grow salt-tolerant plants such as Geranium, Iberis, Gaillardia, etc. besides the road-side. It will protect your trees from salt damage and help your trees get better health.

6. Tree Pruning In Winter:

Is it a good idea to prune trees in winter? Yes, it is! Winter is the best time for pruning and tree removal. During this time, trees are in dormant states, and there is a maximum possibility that the wound due to pruning gets quickly healed.

7. Protect Your Trees From Animals:

During winter, wild animals such as dear, rabbit, rat, etc. many come to your home yard in search of food and gnaw the wood of your trees. You can use chicken wire to fence your trees and let your tree remain safe and healthy throughout the winter.

In conclusion:

In this blog, you have learned how to protect your trees during winter. Following all the above methods will help you keep your trees safe and secure in the cold winter. If you need any help or suggestion, feel free to contact us @Evergreentreeserviceexperts. We offer all the services related to tree care and tree maintenance.

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