The ABC's of Tree Service: Tips for Everyone

The ABC's of Tree Service: Tips for Everyone

  • 3 Mistakes You May Be Making When Mulching Your Trees

    Mulching can be very helpful for your trees, and it isn't hard to do at all. Mulching not only protects and improves your trees' health, but it can also improve the appearance of your landscape. In the forest, trees sink into soil that is full of organic nutrients, especially because of the leaves that continuously die and decompose to replenish nutrients in the soil. In an urban yard, however, the soil is often hard and depleted of nutrients, which means trees aren't as healthy.

  • Important tree care tips for fruiting trees in clay soils

    If you live near a river or in an area with heavily clay based soils you can face extra challenges when trying to get your tree to produce maximum fruit. However, with the right tree maintenance, you can still get great results. Here are some tips to maximise fruiting on trees in clay soils.  Aerate and drain Clay soils easily retain water, which can be handy in a dry climate. However, this can also lead to problems with the root system retaining too much water in very wet times and compacting hard to form baked surfaces in drier times.

  • Safety First: Rules To Follow When Felling A Lumber Giant

    Chopping down a tree and bringing it crashing to the earth might seem like a fun task, but with its size comes a formidable safety risk. Properly understanding and addressing the risks involving in tree felling should be thought of as a requirement before picking up a single tool. Whether you're pulling down a lone tree in your front yard or levelling an entire paddock of lumbering giants, the safety precautions that should be undertaken are the same.

  • Work With Your Tree Service To Protect Your Trees From Wild Deer

    If you live in an area where wild deer can access your land, you may find that they do damage to your trees.  Male deer remove the velvet from their antlers by scraping them against the tree's trunk.  During the deer rut in the autumn months, bucks use trees to mark their territory, again by scraping the bark with the antlers.  This not only spoils the look of your trees, but it can also provide an entry point for pests and diseases and can even kill young trees by disrupting the flow of nutrients and water via the trunk to the branches and leaves.

  • The Benefits of Tree Removal on a Commercial Development

    If you have trees on your commercial development, you may be considering if you should have them removed or not. If you are unsure which trees you should have removed, now is the time to learn a little about the benefits of tree removal. Below is a guide to 4 benefits of having trees removed from your commercial development. Reduced Maintenance Cost In order to keep your commercial development looking tidy, it is vital that any trees are properly maintained.

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    The ABC's of Tree Service: Tips for Everyone

    Taking care of trees can be challenging, and sadly, there is a lot of misleading information on the Internet about the best ways to take care of trees. To try to shed light on these shady organisms, I have decided to start a blog. Hi, my name is Mandi, and I have always loved trees. Through the years, I have built tree houses, travelled to the woods to chop firewood for the winter and trimmed trees to help them survive. It is one of my favourite hobbies and something I have devoted a lot of time and research to. If you want to learn about trees, explore this blog, and thanks for reading!