The
best way to care for your trees may be a simple as H-2-O.
Below, we share some simple tree watering tips from
our friends at The Care of Trees.
Consider
the following when watering your trees this summer.
Is
it better to water my trees in the morning, during the
day, or at night?
First, make sure you follow any watering ordinances
in effect for your village or community. Watering during
the hotter part of the day results in more water loss
through evaporation. Watering during the early morning
or late afternoon and evening hours is more efficient.
However, getting water on the foliage so that it remains
wet for longer periods of time can increase the likelihood
of certain foliar diseases.
How do I know if my trees need more water?
There is no substitute for actually checking the soil.
Use a hand trowel or a sharp knife to dig into the soil
in a few places around critical trees. If the soil is
very dry down to a depth of 4 to 6 inches, it would
be a good idea to water. If it is already moist, watering
is not necessary.
What
is better for my trees? Watering more frequently or
deeply?
Trees like to be watered deeply, but less frequently.
Irrigation systems set for turf often result in too
much water applied to trees. It is best to water for
a longer period of time, and then not water again until
the soil becomes fairly dry. Soil texture affects this.
Soils with a high clay content will hold water longer
than any sandy soils.
What's in Your Milkshake!
Just
last week, we went to a fun, family, diner-style restaurant
with my children where they ordered (only on occasion,
mind you) a strawberry milkshake with whipped cream.
Much
to my dismay, I came home and read an excerpt from Dr.
Mercola's newsletter about the 59 ingredients in a fast
food strawberry milkshake. The following week, we went
to the same diner and I asked the waitress, "Please
tell me you use only strawberries, milk and ice cream
in your milkshakes?" I wasn't happy with her (very
honest) reply.
Information
is power, but try to tell that to a 9-year-old boy who
loves strawberries. Time to get the blender out!
See
his article below:
The 59 Ingredients in a Fast Food Strawberry Milkshake?-
by Dr. Mercola
Now, that's not a very good start, is it? Fifty-nine
ingredients. So, I looked, and it turns out that in
one fast food restaurant strawberry milkshake from a
big fast food chain, there are two ingredients that
are notably absent: Milk and Strawberries!! Does
that put you off for life already? Well, let's see if
I can put you off a bit further. It turns out that the
strawberry flavor they use to flavor their milkshakes
is actually made from 40 different chemicals. Let me
read you a couple of the names of these chemicals. This
is just the strawberry flavor.
Forty
different chemicals:
That's just to name but a few of those 40 ingredients
that go into their strawberry flavoring.
Now, I don't know about you, but I've had strawberry
milkshakes from fast food chains before, and some of
them are very, very tasty. But after finding out that
there's 59 ingredients, and that both milk and strawberries
are absent from these milkshakes, I can definitely say
I've been put off for life, and I hope you are as well.
To read more go to www.mercola.com
This
beautiful painting, above, is actually a contemporary
copy created by artist, Chris Jordan (Seattle, 2007).
His new series, Running
the Numbers~An American Self-Portrait
looks at contemporary American Culture through the austere
lens of statistics. Each image (on his site and exhibited
at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York through the end
of July) portrays a specific quantity of something (large)
to represent images of something else.
Jordan
explains, "My hope is that images representing
these quantities might have a different effect than
the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles
and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing,
making it difficult to connect with and make meaning
of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or
2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones
retired every day. This project visually examines these
vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately
detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller
photographs."
Take
a look below at the zoomed in and even-more zoomed in
"look" at this piece. Go to www.Chrisjordan.com
to experience more of the American statistical reality!
Save
the Trees, Strawberries and soda cans!
Beth
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