How To Water a Tree That May Be Sick

Question

Our Red Sunset maple dropped a lot of seeds this spring. Now the leaves look very sparse on the tree. We want to give it a lot of water but don’t know how. Do we need a large pattern of spray? Do we water the dribbles into the root area? Do we spray a large area of the roots close to the ground?

Answer 1

Water close to the ground and in the full area that is below the canopy of the tree.