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(FOX 9) – Minnesota’s summer heat and drought conditions<\/a> across much of the state are adding stress to even mature trees, causing them to shed leaves at a rate not usually seen this early.<\/p>\n DNR urges tree watering <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is encouraging Minnesotans to give their trees some extra attention during the continued dry conditions.<\/p>\n The DNR says that residential trees often face conditions that cause added stress, such as compacted soils, limited rooting space, reflected heat from pavement and competition from other vegetation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Newly planted residential trees need 15 to 25 gallons of water once a week for the first three to five years, according to the DNR.<\/p>\n The department says that effective watering methods include setting a garden hose on a slow trickle for one to two hours, slowly allowing water to penetrate a tree base.<\/p>\n Watering during the early morning or late evening helps reduce evaporation and conserve water.<\/p>\n The DNR says it recommends watering the soil beneath the entire canopy, a few inches away from the trunk out to the outer edge of the branches, with a goal of saturating six inches of topsoil.<\/p>\n Mulching can also help retain moisture and moderate soil temperatures.<\/p>\n The Source: Information provided by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n Minnesota<\/a>Weather<\/a>Agriculture<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX 9) – Minnesota’s summer heat and drought conditions across much of the state are adding stress to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2342,192,33320,3,79,25,2986],"class_list":["post-832789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-environment","tag-mn","tag-news","tag-science","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}