Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice with area gardeners about persimmon trees, pruning, crape myrtles, tomatoes, fertilizer, weeds, St. Augustine lawns, turf ...

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Fertilizing your trees will go a long way toward increasing fruit size and yield.

The persimmons are falling off my persimmon tree. Now some of the leaves are falling off. I applied Southern Gro Fertilizer 13-6-6 on March 1. The tree is mulched with a thin layer of pine bark.

If the persimmon tree is planted in full sun, I have had luck producing fruit without sunburn by pruning to produce adequate shade.

When you fertilize the container plants, the excess fertilizer will drain out of the pots and feed the tree roots. Finished compost or bark mulch shouldn’t interfere with fertilizing your trees.