Is your Soil Hungry?
What happens if the human body doesn’t receive food or water?… We suffer because we are living organisms. Our bodies require food for energy and nutrients, water for cell and organ protection and nutrient delivery and so much more!
What’s the correlation though?… Believe it or not, there are more species of organisms in the soil than there are above ground! These organisms include everything from mammals and insects to bacteria and viruses that are invisible to the naked eye. A single handful of soil contains millions of individual living organisms.
Why are you telling me though?… To inform you that our local soils suffer from our urban activity. Trees in our urban environment are stressed from boundaries that inhibit root growth. They lack sufficient water due to structures and roads, lawns and evaporation from limited forest debri or mulch . They have deficiencies because they are outside of their natural and rich eco system. In these nutrient dense environments needles, bark and cones are reused and constantly break down to provide organic material. Fungi thrive off of decaying organisms. Together with bacteria, fungi are responsible for breaking down organic matter and releasing carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus into the soil and the atmosphere. Mammals and insects are constantly turning the soil, creating pore space for better soil structure and constantly fertilizing the soil with their waste. The eco systems of forests, grasslands and wetlands constantly provide the proper activity and functions to keep their soils fertile. Since our trees are often displaced from their natural environment , we can reintroduce beneficial nutrients just by simply fertilizing.
Can you feed my soil so it’s satisfied? Yes, we can! At Urban Forest Tree Service we use BioPak Plus which is a premium dry, soluble 3-in-one fertilizer, microbial nutrient, and microbial inoculant treatment for ornamentals and trees. It improves plant vigor while growing in stressed conditions. It includes humid acids, which may aid in mineral nutrient uptake. We apply this fertilizer by drenching the root zones of smaller plants, shrubs and new plantings with 5 gallon buckets of mixed fertilizer. For trees or shrubs with larger root zones we inject the fertilizer directly into the root zone with a high pressurized soil probe. We recommend introducing a premium fertilizer every 1 to 3 years to increase the health, vigor and life of your plants.
Reach out for a consultation so that we can get your trees full and green again. What we see above ground is often an indication of what is below ground. With the proper care, your landscape can once again be the talk of the neighborhood.
