These root fungi can colonize the root system and persist in the tree unrecognized for years. Bit by bit, year after year, the root fungi compromise the trees’ ability to take up water.

In this photo, parade goers stands around the roots of an old oak tree as Rex parades down St. Charles Avenue for Mardi Gras 2015 in New Orleans on Tuesday, February 17. Photo by Chris Granger ...

Critical Note: As long as you plan to grow trees, you must remember that 90% of any tree’s roots are going to be in the top foot of the soil. Sure, it’s going to have a tap root to anchor it.

Critical Note: As long as you plan to grow trees, you must remember that 90% of any tree’s roots are going to be in the top foot of the soil. Sure, it’s going to have a tap root to anchor it.

Most of a tree's feeder roots are in the top 9 to 18 inches of soil, where the roots have access to greater moisture and oxygen exchange. Water slowly and deeply to encourage the roots to travel ...

Follow a few basic rules if you plan to landscape around tree root systems. Failing to do so may damage or even cause death of certain trees. One’s objective should ...

Such soaking could be detrimental to oak tree roots. Mini-sprinklers, on the other hand, wet the ground horizontally and uniformly, with water being absorbed in the upper soil profile where most ...

Grinding down oak roots is dangerous to the tree, and maybe to you. Here's a better way. This reader is worried about damaging his rider mower.

That blockage is what shuts down the tree’s water-moving system and leads to leaf wilting and tree death – somewhat akin to clogging of the arteries in a person.

Critical Note: As long as you plan to grow trees, you must remember that 90% of any tree’s roots are going to be in the top foot of the soil. Sure, it’s going to have a tap root to anchor it.

Purists would argue that nothing should ever be planted under an oak and that, once established, an oak tree should never be watered. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 60°F.