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BY KENNER P. LOVE
Extension agent, ANR
Crop & Soil Sciences
• Shrubs for spring planting should be ordered now. Bare root, deciduous types should be planted while still dormant, about one month before the average date of the last frost in your area. Hardy, container-grown and balled and burlapped shrubs may be planted anytime, except during severe, cold weather.
• Check valuable trees and shrubs for tent caterpillar egg masses am’ oag worms. Remove the..* to reduce the number of destructive pests this spring. Tent caterpillar egg masses are gray and varnished looking and form a collar around twigs. Bagworms look somewhat like a pine cone hanging at the end of branches.
• Prune most shrubs and trees on warm days this month after the coldest weather is past in your area. Wait until after bloom to prune your spring-flowering shrubs in order to get maximum blossoms.
• Trees with large cavities in their trunks should be evaluated yearly as to whether or not they should he removed for safety reasons. When a cavity takes up over 75 percent of a limb or trunk, the wood could
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