Tips for Maintaining Trees on Your Property
Trees are a great way to enhance your property’s beauty, shade, tranquillity and home value. Trees need to be healthy, so it is important to learn all you can about tree care for your property.
It’s crucial to begin landscape maintenance, especially for new trees, during the fall season.
People wait for spring to start thinking about landscaping. However, the pros know that spring lawn care can be easier and more rewarding if you get started in the fall. Preparing your trees for colder temperatures requires a few key steps. You can prevent problems from developing right away using the PINE method. It involves pruning, inspecting, nourishing, and extending.
· Prune unruly branches
· Inspect the trees for signs of insect damage, disease, or dying limbs
· Nourish the trees by giving them water and organic mulch
· Plant new trees in autumn to extend the following year’s growing seasons
Healthy trees that are well-maintained don’t usually snap, die, have lose branches, be infested with termites. Your home and property can be saved by keeping your trees healthy.
Leave your trees alone
For trees to thrive, they don’t require humans. Trees thrive in the places they are planted. However, humans can sometimes cause damage to trees that they’re trying to care for. Parking a car under a tree can cause damage by repeatedly tamping the ground, which causes the soil to shift and makes it more difficult for roots to grow.
A lot of homeowners would like to build a structure next to or around a tree in order to enhance their final construction project. Don’t do it! Construction projects that are too close to trees can cause damage to their roots and hinder their growth. To support a tree, roots need to grow two to three times more than the number of its branches. Discuss your tree’s needs with a contractor and mark the areas where construction vehicles are not allowed to park or drive.
Learn about tree diseases and how to spot them
Although leaving your trees alone is the best way to preserve them, it’s a good idea for you to keep an eye on them so that you can identify any changes. Early detection is key for a diseased tree. You should be aware of any changes that may occur, from rapid discoloration and stunted growth. An arborist, a specialist in the care of trees and shrubs, can help you to determine what your tree looked like when healthy.
Weekly pruning and mulching
Although you don’t have to do anything to maintain your trees, it is worth taking some precautions to make sure they last a lifetime. Mulch can be used to protect the tree’s base. Mulch protects the tree against over-watering or over-fertilizing. Mulch should be layered 2 to 3 inches thick. Keep it away from the tree’s bark. Before you add a new layer, remove any old mulch.
Pruning trees is not necessary for most trees. In fact, it can slow down their growth as the tree must heal first before it grows again. Pruning a tree is a good idea when there are dead limbs, or branches that have fractured due to strong winds or rain storms. To prevent them falling on your property, you should safely remove the limbs and branches.
Select the right trees for your property
Choose the right tree for your place. This means weighing how tall and wide it will be when it matures, how many leaves it will shed in winter, what shape it will take, and how fast it grows. It may be beautiful, but it will not fit in the space when fully grown, which is why you need to take these factors into consideration.
It’s important to consider whether leaves may fall onto your driveway, sidewalk, or street in autumn. Wet leaves can make roads slippery. Even a single layer can make it difficult to brake or steer your car.
