The holidays bogged me down!

Aug 01, Composting wood chips from a maple tree Fri Jun 17, pm I just had an old maple cut down in my front yard and now have a pile of chips at my disposal. Oct 19, Any sudden swing in temperature can make trees shed bark and crack under stress. Bark falls off after excessive heat, which, like frost damage, strips bark down to the wood. Bark falls off an unhealthy tree, which means you’d see other signs of stress such as cankers, sap, or dead leaves and twigs.

Last summer the leaves started to turn and fall early.

If bark is falling off my tree, is it dying? Dec 14, Here are five possible reasons the bark is falling off of your trees: 5.

Environmental Causes. One of the biggest reasons that we see bark peeling from a tree are the effects from the environment.

Everything from the extreme cold to the extreme heat can make your trees start to bushcutting.barted Reading Time: 5 mins. May 28, His approach appears to be wood mulch every few years and a lot of chicken manure from his chickens tossed on top. One particular aspect that I think makes a big difference is he mulches in the fall. That gives the wood chips several months to break down. As for the reasoning for wood chips or leaf mulch its pretty simple. Jun 17, Peeling Tree Bark Disease.

Hardwood trees that have peeling bark may be suffering from a fungal disease called Hypoxylon canker. Peeling bark caused by this disease is accompanied by yellowing and wilting leaves and dying branches.

In addition, the wood under the peeling bark is covered with a mat of fungus.