Mowing your lawn every week can be a tiresome struggle or an expensive upkeep, even if there are methods for mowing your lawn ...

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.

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.

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 ...

With the spread of the root system in mind, that is why it is recommended to plant large growing trees at least 12 feet away from sidewalks, driveways, and roads so the roots won’t cause any damage.

Oak trees change their fine roots and "energize" soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, ...

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.

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 ...

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.