Q: It seems like everyone got a bunch of rain in the past couple of weeks except for us. We have not had a measurable rain in three weeks. Several of our trees are dropping leaves. They are turning yellow and falling off six weeks before they should be falling off. Should I be concerned? We are on a well, and we can’t water them as much as they need to be watered.
A: Hot, dry weather happens somewhere every summer. The natural response for trees is to drop leaves they can’t support. If there was plenty of water in the spring, the trees would have grown leaves and roots in response to the plentiful amount of water available. Then, as the weather dries out, the trees respond by allowing roots and leaves to die.
