With hurricane season just around the corner, is it time to hurricane prune your palm trees? The answer might surprise you.

Horticultural oil and insecticidal ... applying fertilizer with sufficient nutrients usually results in new, green foliage.

The rate is 1.5 pounds of palm fertilizer per 100 square ... be sterilized before pruning each tree. Solutions to disinfect pruning tools include pine oil cleaner, alcohol and denatured ethanol.