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Best Tree Care Practices In Texas


If you have trees on your property, make sure you do your part to help them thrive. With the right tree care practices, you can ensure that your trees are able to weather periods of drought, extreme sunlight, heavy rainstorms, and anything else that Texas decides to throw your way. When taking care of your trees in Texas, keep the following best practices in mind. Contact our Tree Service for a free quote

New Tree Care
Before getting into general best tree care practices in Texas, take a closer look at the special considerations for new plantings. When trees are young, they require additional work and your arborist can provide you with suggestions specific to your planting. These will likely include watering the planting regularly, including plenty of water initially and at least once a week after. When watering recently planted trees, remember that the water needs to reach the roots, which are a minimum of 6 to 12 inches underground.
You may also need to stake saplings when you plant them, which your arborist can help you with. Don’t forget to mulch your plantings liberally as well, as this will preserve moisture, control weeds, and prevent soil compaction. Ideally, you will want a four-foot circle of mulch around your new trees.

Tree Mulching
While mulching is particularly important for newly planted trees, it is also an important practice for older trees. Regardless of the age of the tree, mulch can help enrich the soil. When applying mulch, try to keep it about two to four inches deep around the crown and avoid putting too much by the trunk.

Tree Pruning
When taking care of trees on your property, make an effort to prune them regularly. Pruning gives you the chance to get rid of unhealthy branches and keep the trees healthy. When done right, it can also ensure that sunlight is able to reach all of the leaves and branches on the tree, providing enough nutrients. As a bonus, pruning also helps ensure that your trees do not encroach over your walkways, driveway, or sidewalk.
While pruning a tree is important, you should never engage in topping. This is when you cut off many branches and leave the stubs behind. This type of pruning is considered extreme and arborists do not recommend it since it leaves trees more vulnerable to disease and insects. If you are unsure about how to prune your trees properly, consider leaving it to a certified arborist. They will be able to do so in a way that encourages the health of your trees instead of hurting the plant.

Get Rid Of Invasive Trees
The health of your trees will also depend on other plants nearby as invasive plants can lead to competition for nutrients. You should be especially careful to watch out for English ivy and other invasive vines as these can directly damage the tree in addition to competing for nutrients.

Hire An Arborist
Whenever you have a doubt about your tree care or the overall health of your trees, you should hire a certified arborist. Their knowledge lets them diagnose diseases and infestations and encourage overall tree health.

Compost Tea Tree Care

Compost Tea Under Trees
Compost tea is a supplement for your tree that is organic. This type of fertilizer is liquid, well-balanced, and full of nutrients while being completely organic. To make compost tea, you steep aged compost within water. Most arborists will suggest that you use compost tea on your trees due to its excellent health benefits.

Provide Tree Nourishment
The most important reason to use compost tea under trees is because of the nourishment that it provides. The compost contains nutrients that will feed the soil. This nutrient-rich soil then feeds the trees, plants, and grass, giving you healthy trees. The increased nourishment not only helps your trees stay healthy, but it can also promote growth.

Prevent Tree Disease
When trees receive the proper nourishment, they become healthier and better able to ward off diseases. This means that trees with compost tea underneath are less likely to fall victim to pest infestations or diseases spreading around the area.

No Chemicals
One of the great things about compost tea is that it can serve as a replacement for chemical fertilizers. Instead of using a product with harsh chemicals, you can use something that is fully organic and get the same, if not better, results. This is more affordable and better for the planet as well as everyone on it, including wildlife and people.

Getting Compost Tea
Because compost tea is made by steeping compost in water, there are many varieties of it available. You can customize your compost tea by including different types of compost in the mix. This makes it possible to adapt to varying requirements across tree species as some may want compost that is dominated by fungi while others trees will do best with compost dominated by bacteria. Trees tend to prefer compost tea dominated by fungi/humus. You can either choose to make your own compost tea or buy it.

When To Apply to Tree
For the best results, you should apply compost tea underneath your trees regularly. Consider doing so about once a month. You should definitely apply it during early spring or late winter. Do so once before the leaf buds have started to form and then apply it again once they break but before they open. You can also apply compost tea if you notice early warning signs of pest infestations or disease to give the tree the strength it needs to fight off the problem.

How To Apply to Tree
Time your application of the compost tea properly, ideally at dusk, preferably while the soil is moist. This timing will help the compost tea come into contact with your soil so it stays active. If there is rain in the forecast, wait to apply the compost tea since the rainwater will wash it away. You should also avoid applying it during the day since the UV rays of the sun will kill the microbes that make the tea so effective.
 In addition to the option of drenching the soil in compost tea, you can also choose to apply it directly to the leaves of the tree. When you do this, the organisms within the compost tea will stay on the leaves, stopping harmful bacteria from approaching the tree.
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