A new tree planted along a street or in a park often has an odd-looking accessory: a watering bag. It’s a green or brown bag made of heavy plastic sitting at the base of the tree, usually secured with ...

Living in the semi-arid West, the hardest part of planting new trees and shrubs is keeping them consistently and adequately watered. That’s why I turned to tree watering bags—but are water bags for ...

First there was the tea bag, and now – during a statewide water shortage – there is the tree bag. San Clemente began this week using slow-release water bags, filled with recycled water produced at the ...

BOUND BROOK — Bound Brook received a 2011 federal grant which was used to purchase 60 tree-watering bags and to provide a soil and insecticide treatment for a dozen slippery elms that had been ...