I was so glad to see the sun come back out this week and the freezing cold go away.  As my granny always said, if you do not like the weather today just hold on, it will be different tomorrow in Texas.  As you are starting to recover from the historic low freezing temperatures during the week of February 15th through February 19th and checking everything in your home, I want to remind you to check on your trees and start watering them. The most important thing you can do right now for your trees is water (view the Fannin Water Guide).  As the spring starts it will be important to do a deep root fertilization and prune as needed.

As we shared several weeks ago, trees are going to have stress from the deep freeze we just went through last week. The good news is for most of the tree this will only cause a set-back. Most trees will recover from this type of freeze damage. It often takes months for all of the damage to be evident, if any. You may even find that some trees that look damaged immediately after a freeze actually aren’t. The foliage of some trees may look dark and water-soaked and later turn bright green and healthy again.

Fannin Tree Farm is currently seeing that Evergreen trees have experienced excessive leaf burn due to the freezing temperatures. Typically, when freezes occur those leaves will shed, and new leaves will push but the tree will need time and possibly some fertilization assistance. We will be monitoring this situation closely and will be assessing tree conditions and their response to this historic freeze over the next 4 to 8 months. Our current recommendation is to deeply water your trees 2-3 times per week and to highly consider a deep root fertilization program going into Spring. Fannin Tree Farm will be able to provide a deep fertilization program, pricing for these treatments will vary from tree size and number of trees needed to be treated.

To get a quote on Fannin Tree Farms, deep root fertilization program or pruning needs click here or call one of our tree experts at 972-747-9233.