<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Great link, Bob. I guess I read it differently than you do because the trees in my yard have all dropped their leaves (except my white oak tree, which drops its leaves in the spring). The article says: </div><div class="gmail_default"><h3 style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:17px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:21px;color:rgb(25,25,25)">When to Water Trees in Fall</h3><ol style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial;list-style:none"><font color="#191919">1. Stop watering trees, both evergreen and deciduous, throughout early autumn, until the time when the leaves of the deciduous trees fall (this remarkable change on the deciduous trees serves as a useful indicator, whereas their evergreen counterparts, being relatively unchanging, offer little in the way of guidance). This stoppage in watering will allow both evergreen and deciduous trees to enter a transitional phase, not unlike the </font><font color="#000000"><font><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">hardening off</span></font> </font><font color="#191919">undergone by nursery plants in spring. What you are trying to avoid here is causing spurts of new growth that will not be winter-hardy. Such non-hardy growth is more likely to be damaged if cold weather suddenly sweeps into your region.</font></li></ol><div><ol class="gmail-cb-split" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial;list-style:none">2. In late autumn, after the deciduous trees have dropped their leaves, give both evergreen and deciduous trees a deep watering. This should be done before the ground freezes. If you were to wait until after the ground freezes, the frozen-solid soil would act as a barrier. This barrier would prevent water from seeping down properly to the root zones of the trees in a timely manner.</li></ol><div><font color="#191919" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">So use your good judgment based on your trees!  And for what it's worth, it's supposed to warm up again on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, so this isn't really a "hard freeze" coming up tonight. </span></font></div></div><div><font color="#191919" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#191919" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">-Sarah</span></font></div><div><br></div></div></div>