posted 14 years ago
Hello all,
We've been planting a couple of fruit trees a year, this year it was a pair of plums. It was a very cold rainy spring, and one of the plums is just not "coming on". Tiny leaves, virtually no growth since we put it in about a month ago. Its companion is slow, too, but doing better. The poor thing was incredibly root bound in its pot, soaking wet, and as I said, the weather's a challenge so the planting may have been rather rushed. Any help I could give it? The weather's now turned tropically hot - from near freezing nights to days in the 90's.
Also, our apple trees are suddenly infested with tiny green caterpillers. As they are pretty small, yet (the trees that is) I've been able to use the hunt and squish method (ugh), and I'm willing to go up on a ladder to get the ones at the top if I must...
Any thoughts? We're in West Quebec, along the Ottawa River. Our property backs onto forest, I suspect our darling little greenies spun their way down off the maples.
Thanks!