Watering strategies for veteran trees

[marlinspiker]

We are in the midst of a fairly serious drought and I am looking at strategies to water declining veteran trees. Does anyone have any experience installing temporary/permanent systems to achieve adequate hydration levels to withstand these conditions?

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Do a search for Bob Wulkowicz's water sausage...it works and its cheap!

 

[marlinspiker]

and it sounds tasty!

 

[wulkowicz]

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and it sounds tasty!

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It got named by the Chicago Park District staff:

Meself, in a fit of scholarly spoofery, called it the Hydro Kielbasa Polyethelus.

Here's a bit of the history of the invention in 1988--It works fine and I can't make it any cheaper. Got a Gold Leaf Award. Right now waiting to be rediscovered.

The photo by my old friend George Ware, is the first concept; a static percolating pool. In the second month, I evolved the dynamic concept, which moved two to three hundred gallons of water a minute and surrounded groves of trees. It was also exempt from all water restrictions by all local authorities based on the purposes and frugalities of the processes.

Because this all was crisis management, which I hate, I invented the Drought-Proof Park (Park 480), a 3 acre formal park in Chicago that doesn't expect maintenance. It has been in place 20 years--I designed it to last 100...


wulkowicz





http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/images/upload/332225-1988droughtpresspdfcompressed.pdf