I have spent the day doing clean-up in the back yard, and just discovered that some rodent has totally stripped the bark (and on one, gnawed a fair amount of the trunk too) off a good 6 inches of trunk on my two dwarf apples. The trees don't look dead though, at least not yet -- the ground is still thawing.

Is there anything I can or should do, to try to save these babies? Each has been in the ground about 3 years and I have yet to get blossom on either.

My main focus up to now has been trying to keep the deer from eating all the branches. The netting did the job for that, but this is the first year that I have had a critter hit the trunks and I never even thought about it. Must have been all the prolonged snow (and cold).