Reliable tree maintenance services from Spring-Green include everything from fertilizing trees to insect control.
- Tree Maintenance and Shrub Care
Services include specialty tree trunk injections, leaf disease control, insect control, and fertilizing trees and shrubs via deep root feeding.
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What Makes Tree Maintenance from Spring-Green Better?
Go on, admit it, you've got a great lawn. It didn't come easy, though. You keep a tight mowing schedule, remembering never to trim more than 1/3 of the grass height. You do your own lawn aeration. You are diligent in your weed control habits. You take lawn fertilizing to heart. You even get up in the early hours to water the lawn before the sun comes up. Yup, no doubt about it, you sure give your lawn a lot of attention.
But what about your trees?
Because they are larger than the grass, your trees may not show the signs of stress or slow growth that your lawn shows. Proper tree maintenance that includes watering and fertilizing trees can help assure that your trees, as well as your lawn, are getting the attention they deserve. Let's take a look at some ways to achieve a better tree and lawn care balance in your yard.
Tree Maintenance Part I: Watering Trees
One of the easiest parts of any tree maintenance plan is basic watering. Like your lawn, trees pull water from the soil. Regardless of the height of the tree, however, most of the roots are located near the surface, within the top three feet. While that makes your trees susceptible to harm from extended periods of drought, it also makes tree care like watering relatively simple. Like most tree maintenance, though, the way you approach recently planted trees and established trees differs.
Garden centers know a thing or two about tree maintenance. That's why they water their trees so much. And you have to admit, when you pick up a new tree from your garden center, all that watering has sure made it look nice. Well, when you take it home and stick it in unfamiliar ground, it can cause some stress on the tree. All the more reason to keep watering it plentifully.
When watering a freshly planted tree, proper tree maintenance can be achieved by using a double-dike approach. This involves building one dike around the root ball of the new tree and one farther out, at about 30 inches. Water the inner circle-shaped dike every one to three days until the tree starts taking root. Then start watering in the outer dike. It will need less water, but for proper tree maintenance, the soil will still need to remain moist.
In comparison to new trees, when watering established trees--those beautiful beacons of your yard--the goal is to get lots of water to the roots. To do this, water the entire ground area of the tree, but only as much as the soil will hold. While this basic tree maintenance may seem simple, as with most things in life, it's the simple things that make all the difference.
Tree Maintenance Part II: Fertilizing Trees
Like watering, when it comes to fertilizing trees, newer trees see more benefits more quickly. Fertilizing trees has a number of benefits that go beyond simple growth. This basic tree maintenance procedure can help your trees stay more resistant to insects and disease, while improving flowering. Like their owners, trees need the right nutritional balance. There are four primary nutrients that are especially beneficial when fertilizing trees for proper tree maintenance: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, and Iron.
- Nitrogen is like steroids for your trees. It promotes fast growth in the trunk and branches, giving your tree immediate bulk. It will also give your tree's leaves that healthy, deep green color.
- Phosphorus does wonders for your tree's roots. The benefits of phosphorus for new trees are numerous as they maximize your watering efforts, increase resistance to colder temps, and get your tree budding sooner and more fully.
- Potassium is great for adding strength to the bulk provided by nitrogen. Trees that are strengthened through diligent tree maintenance are better able to handle disease, as well as strong wind and ice.
- Iron helps other nutrients to do their jobs better. In fact, in addition to tree maintenance, iron is beneficial as part of total tree and lawn care services.
When it comes to fertilizing trees, how and when to fertilize is just as important as the fertilizer blend itself. If you're new at fertilizing trees, get ready to start digging holes. You'll want to dig about 10 holes for every inch of your tree's trunk diameter. That can be a lot of holes, but aren't your trees worth it? Each hole should be 6-12 inches deep.
For proper placement, stand with your back to the tree trunk and walk about 1/3 of the way out to your tree's drip line. This is where you will want to start fertilizing trees. For ideal tree maintenance, you'll want to extend this fertilization out to about 1/3 of the way past your tree's drip line to assure you are reaching all of the feeder roots.
Tree maintenance fertilizing should be done between fall and, at the latest, mid-July of the following year. This assures that the sap has gone down. When the sap rises again, it can draw on all those fertilizer nutrients.
Spring-Green: All Your Tree Maintenance Needs
Consistent tree and lawn care is key to getting the yard that the neighbors envy. With professional tree maintenance services from Spring-Green, you can be assured that your entire yard will be healthy and strong.
To learn more or set up a free evaluation, please contact your neighborhood Spring-Green today!