ARE YOU KILLING YOUR TREES WITH
KINDNESS?
When our landscape trees began to lose their vigor, our
first instinct is to fertilize. Before you risk killing your trees
with kindness, consider this: excess fertilizer can injure roots,
burn foliage, increase susceptibility to insects, reduce tolerance
to environmental stress, increase maintenance costs and contaminate
ground water.
To nurture the long-term health of your trees, Bryant Tree offers
a soil injection with the industry’s most advanced soil
fertility, plant nutrition products from Plant Hralth Care Inc.
Through soil injection, this new generation of natural
fertilizers introduces the organic plant nutrients, mycorrhizal
fungi and microbial organisms into the root system to help restore
natural biological activity. The mycorrhizae in this organic
“cocktail” partner with their tree host, creating a
highly-efficient, secondary root system. The result is a dramatic
increase in the ability of your tree to extract water and nutrients
from the soil.
Just as the term indicates, soil fertilization delivers water
and nutrients directly to your tree’s feeder roots. One common
misconception is that fertilizing a lawn will provide adequate
nutrients for trees. Turf roots are highly nutrient competitive.
Fertilizers applied on the soil surface, in most cases, will not
penetrate deep enough to benefit trees.
Soil injection is effective, and it is ecologically friendly. The
amount of fertilizer needed is substantially reduced and there is no
runoff to contaminate the ground water supplies.
If you are concerned about slow growth, poor leaf color or twig
die-back, we can help your trees not only survive but thrive in our
high-stress, suburban landscapes. Emphasizing prevention over cure,
our soil fertility and plant nutrition program is designed to supply
the right nutrients at the right time for optimum tree
health.
HELP FOR
TREES STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE IN OUR HIGH STRESS SUBURBAN
LANDSCAPES
Over thousands of years, trees have developed
sophisticated survival systems to help them reach a healthy,
vigorous old age. In their natural environment, the fertile soil
around a tree’s root system contains large populations of
earthworms, insects, bacteria and other types of fungi. These
beneficial organisms ensure a steady stream of nutrients and protect
against root disease.
A tree’s native environment is quite different from the one in our
urban communities and suburban neighborhoods where their microbial
partners have been destroyed. In addition, our landscape trees are
struggling to adapt to a high stress environment --- inappropriate
moisture, compacted soils, damage from construction or lawn
maintenance equipment, constricted root zones and fierce competition
for nutrients from turf grass and other plants.
Through worldwide research, arborists are learning how nature
creates a healthy soil-root ecology to nourish and protect trees. In
undisturbed soils, trees have formed a mutually beneficial
relationship with mycorrhizal fungi which live in and around the
roots of most plants. Mycorrhizae fungi colonize tree roots and
create an extensive secondary root system which can increase a
tree’s ability to absorb nutrients by more than 700 percent.
Mycorrhizae also enhance tree tolerance to drought and
transplantation while helping to control many root
diseases.
Recent breakthrough advances in biotechnology enable us to
reintroduce Mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria into
suburbanized soils, recreating the natural forest ecological system.
At J Davis, we have found deep root injection of
MyCorTree
Injectable, a multiple action
mycorrhizal fungal and biostimulant, to be especially effective in
reinvigorating mature trees and reducing the transplant shock for
newly planted trees.
For
more information about how Plant Health Care Inc. products can
improve the soil fertility, structure and porosity around your
landscape trees, give us a call at
731-422-2171.
COMPACTED SOIL
CAN KILL YOUR TREES!
If you have ever walked through a forest, you’ll
remember the soft, spongy feeling of the ground beneath your feet –
quite a different sensation from walking on the hard earth around
your landscape trees. This compacted soil is killing your trees.
They can’t breathe, eat or drink.
Many of the problems associated with suburban trees are caused by
compacted soils that restrict the flow of water, oxygen and
nutrients into the rhizosphere that surrounds a tree’s fine
absorbing roots.
You can replace the turf around your trees with a wide mulch ring
and over time aerate compacted soil. However, until the porosity
improves, your struggling trees are vulnerable to disease and insect
infestation.
Fertilizing trees growing in compacted, stressed soil only
encourages the tree to generate new growth that its struggling
feeder roots can’t support.
Bryant Tree has almost a decade of experience in
revitalization compacted soil around landscape trees. Recent
advances in technology have given us new tools to help nature speed
up the process.
We have found soil injection of water, beneficial
organisms and nutrients to be an efficient, natural method of
reducing soil compaction. Vertical mulching through auger driven
drill holes and RootWell installations also are highly
effective.
Bryant Tree is one of the few companies inthe US that has a
Terravent system. This system is designed to restore the health of
the soil around a tree. The system uses a pressurized probe to
actually decompact the soil around a tree's roots without damaging
the roots of the tree. After the soil is decompacted the a solution
of active soil bacteria is injected into the ground. This
solution helps restore the viability of the soil. This system
is used often to treat the soil around new construction, after heavy
equipment and foot traffic have disturbed
it.
