Monthly Archives: August, 2010
Does Spiking Hurt My Trees?
As arborists we should be concerned with minimizing injury to a tree. A tree is alive just underneath the bark. This is where the vascular cambium is and really the only ‘live’ part of the tree. Spiking (spurring, hooking, gaffing, etc) up a live tree causes multiple injuries to the phloem, cambium and xylem and [...]
