RosyRuthie,
I know the feeling: Last year my wife got several
trees from Arborday foundation and even though some died because of last years drought, The Cheery
trees hung on. Same 2-3 feet tall twigs and now there over 5 feet tall with LOTS of new leaves on them and new branches as well.
Arborday replaced the dead
trees and we have apple
trees as well. so far with the nice weather and plentiful rains, there
growing great.
Spraying does help as when I was a kid we had a HUGH 25 feet tall cherry
tree (bing size cherries) The neibor had a similar size apple
tree and we traded fruit. We got usually over 6 bushels of cherries at a time. We cound`nt eat them all,give them all away and the birdscould`nt eat all the ones that fell onto the ground. God I miss that
tree.
On the other had I have 5 MATURE wallnut
trees with way too many nuts in the fall. Last year i had over a pick up truck full of black wallnuts.