About this episode

The episode discusses how to help trees recover from storm damage and preventative measures to take before severe weather strikes.

Thanks to storms and severe weather, tree limbs are down while tree stress is up. But there are ways to help the timber in your area and to keep damage from happening. We talk with Iowa State University professor of horticulture Jeff Iles about helping trees with storm damage, as well as preventative measures to consider before the next round of severe weather.

People in this episode

Guest: Jeff Iles

Topics covered

• tree care
• storm damage
• horticulture
• preventative measures
• severe weather

Keywords

• trees
• storm damage
• horticulture
• Iowa State University
• tree stress
• preventative measures
• severe weather

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Iowa State University

Places: Iowa

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