Sam's Top Tips for Looking After Your Trees
To get the most from your trees, it’s essential that you understand the top tips you need to keep your trees healthy and happy!
Top Tips You Should Follow to Care for your Trees
Trees can offer a huge benefit for your property, giving your garden a unique aesthetic that many people enjoy. However, they do take a little bit of TLC to keep them looking their best, and today, we’ll look at giving you some ideas and tips as to how you can keep your trees at their best!
Are Your Trees Getting Enough Water?
One of the most important tips we can give for how to look after your trees well is to ensure they are well watered. This is particularly the case during droughts and for young trees, although it’s something that many people don’t consider. Trees are remarkably capable of deriving water from the soil thanks to their expansive and root systems. Still, young trees may have difficulty with this until their root base has fully formed. Even older trees will begin to struggle in times of drought. This means that providing them with some water may help keep them looking their best if they seem to be showing signs of suffering from the lack of water.
Give Your Trees Mulch
Next, in order to keep your tree healthy and provide it with the right minerals it needs, you may want to consider putting mulch down around the base of the tree. Mulch can consist of well-rotted manure, leaf mold, bark, or old wood chip. As this breaks down and degrades over time, it will release both moisture and minerals into the soil surrounding your tree’s roots. This, in turn, can help provide your tree with a slow-release source of minerals while also suppressing competative weed growth.
Get Regular Pruning Services
A final tip that’s worth considering is pruning your trees. If your trees have begun to overgrow, this can impact the health of the tree as well as your safety. As such, pruning services are essential for removing dead branches, thereby protecting the tree and those living around it as much as possible. Some types of pruning services can include crown thinning, crown raising, and crown reduction; all of these services can help maintain your tree’s health. This can also boost the health of the rest of your garden. A thick tree canopy can obscure surface plants from getting enough light. Hence, it’s safe to say that regular pruning is a hugely worthwhile option. Regular pruning can also prevent a lot of tree-related issues that come up throughout the years. It’s important to stay on top of tree-care before it becomes a problem.
Sam Chapman
Heritage Tree Services Canada
https://heritagetreeservice.ca
At Heritage Tree Service, we pride ourselves on offering the highest quality tree care support, including tree pruning and tree planting services. As expert arborists, we have made it our mission to help our local clients with all their tree care needs. We have over eighteen years of experience in the industry and are fully certified and registered with the ISA.