Maintenance
Regular Tree Pruning & Tree Fertilization to Make Your Trees Flourish
Like other areas of your home or business, your trees require a little TLC to keep them looking perfect and healthy. Never fear, as McCracken Tree Service of Leominster, Massachusetts, offers tree pruning and fertilization to do just that and much more.
Tree Pruning
There are three major reasons to prune your trees. The first is to remove hazardous live or dead limbs, this is called a safety prune. The second is to prune for the health of the tree. This includes removing all large dead limbs that serve as an entry point for rot.
It also includes removing limbs that may be infected with a pathogen or thinning the crown, so that insects or fungi are less likely to find a home there. The third reason people have their trees pruned is for aesthetics or to allow more light into a shaded area. Any and all of these reasons for pruning are valid.
Tree Planting
Planting trees and shrubs is best done in the spring or fall. The weather is cooler at these times of year, and rainfall is more frequent. Hiring an arborist to plant your trees and shrubs insures that the plants will have a high rate of survival.
Tree Fertilizing & Mulching
Fertilizing is important for many reasons. The area surrounding your home is very different from the environment that a tree or shrub naturally grows in. In its natural environment, trees and shrubs gain nutrients from decomposing plant material that has fallen to the ground or from plants that have died.
In a landscaped area, most of this dead or dying plant material has been removed and the surrounding plant material is usually in the form of grass, which competes with the trees and shrubs for nutrients. Mulching around the base of the trees in your lawn area and applying a granular or liquid fertilizer periodically, boosts the health of trees and shrubs significantly.
Why we offer deep root liquid fertilization or injection. This service is by no means new to the industry. The products that are on the market today, have been known to greatly improve the efficiency of feeder root systems and enhance resistance to root diseases and other pests.
These products are mycorrhizal-based biostimulants, which improve water and nutrient uptake, increase transplant survival rate and reduce heat and drought tolerances.
They also make plants better able to resist root disease and more tolerant in poor soils. Mature landscape trees that are treated with mycorrhizal fungi are significantly more able to develop the healthy, extensive root networks needed to seek out essential nutrients and water than untreated trees.
These products are an integral part of your maintenance of shade trees, shrubs, ornamentals and newly planted materials. Please give this service serious thought as part of your regular maintenance program. Call any time for a free low-pressure consultation!
In a landscaped area, most of this dead or dying plant material has been removed and the surrounding plant material is usually in the form of grass, which competes with the trees and shrubs for nutrients. Mulching around the base of the trees in your lawn area and applying a granular or liquid fertilizer periodically, boosts the health of trees and shrubs significantly.
Why we offer deep root liquid fertilization or injection. This service is by no means new to the industry. The products that are on the market today, have been known to greatly improve the efficiency of feeder root systems and enhance resistance to root diseases and other pests.
These products are mycorrhizal-based biostimulants, which improve water and nutrient uptake, increase transplant survival rate and reduce heat and drought tolerances.
They also make plants better able to resist root disease and more tolerant in poor soils. Mature landscape trees that are treated with mycorrhizal fungi are significantly more able to develop the healthy, extensive root networks needed to seek out essential nutrients and water than untreated trees.
These products are an integral part of your maintenance of shade trees, shrubs, ornamentals and newly planted materials. Please give this service serious thought as part of your regular maintenance program. Call any time for a free low-pressure consultation!
Contact our tree fertilization and pruning pros to customize a maintenance program just for you.