A tree care calendar for Indiana homeowners is built around four turning points: prune most shade trees while they are dormant in late winter, inspect everything as leaves emerge in spring, water and mulch through summer heat, and clear deadwood and weak limbs in fall before ice and wind arrive.
To prepare your trees for storm season, remove deadwood, correct weak branch unions, reduce end weight on long overextended limbs, and check the root zone for decay or lifting soil, all before severe weather arrives.
Good winter tree care in Evansville comes down to four habits: refresh mulch rings before hard freezes, water young and stressed trees when the ground is dry going into a freeze, keep road salt and snow piles away from trunks and root zones, and use the dormant season, when structure.
When you move into a new home, inspect its trees in your first season: identify each species, check the trunk and canopy for decay, deadwood, and cracks, measure how close large trees stand to the roof and utility lines, and note anything dead, leaning, or damaged for a professional assessment.
