Despite a very rainy May, water tables have not filled up, and farmers fear for their crops this summer.

Like everythingthat nature gives us, trees are living beings: they have a birth, a life, then a death. In an earlier stage of a tree’s life, irrigation can be a tremendous plus. At this stage, it’s the leadingneed a tree has. In the adolescent phase, the treestillneeds water. However, toomuch can bejust as bad as toolittle. This istrue for the trees as they mature to adulthood as well. Whenplannedcorrectly, irrigation isvery good but not toomuch as itwould do more harmthan good. The following article will deal with irrigation for trees, frombirth to adulthood, as well as withspecialproblemsencounteredduringtheirlifetime.