Dear Neil: Is it possible to sterilize cedar elm trees so we won’t have all the seedlings come spring? We have put down corn gluten meal in September to stop the germination but millions have come up ...

I have cedar elms on our property, too, and the way that I cope with the myriad seedlings is to apply an inch of compost or finely ground pine bark mulch across all my beds in the fall. If seedlings ...

Dear Neil: Have you ever seen cedar elm bark scratched and peeled in strings? Two branches have died, apparently because of the loss of bark. There appear to be large areas up in the tree where the ...