What to do about your suffering spruce trees

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By Pam Corle-Bennett, Contributing writer
6:41 PM Friday, May 13, 2011
What is wrong with my spruce trees? If I had a dollar for every time I have heard this question this spring, I wouldn’t quite be rich but I could eat at a very nice restaurant!
A lot of people are experiencing problems with spruce trees, specifically needles dropping and branch dieback.
Much of what I am seeing is due to last summer’s drought. Remember August, September and October? It was quite dry with deficits (in inches) of -1.00 in July, -1.76 in August, -1.00 in September, -1.59 in October and -1.63 in December in the Dayton area.

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