Tree Maintenance Service

Tree maintenance is an essential activity upheld to enhance the beauty and value of trees and your property. It aims at maintaining the overall aesthetic appeal and health of the trees. By maintaining trees, they grow stronger, that is, to mean that the trees improve in terms of vitality thus they withstand stormy summers and become persistent to other forms of pests and diseases.

Tree maintenance also adds value to property in that it helps uphold and enhance the home surroundings as form of your property. It simultaneously improves the tree’s natural form and appearance.  It also aims to provide adequate space to the growing trees above and below the ground. 

Tree maintenance can be done in various forms:
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1. By watering the tree
   1. ​​Provision of adequate water to the trees as a form of maintenance depending on the age of the tree as younger plants require more water so as to remove the root-drying air and moisten the root balls compared to aged trees of above four years which may only require water during dry periods.
2. Mulching the tree
   1. ​Mulching trees ensure that the trees moisture content is maintained such that the roots do not lack moisture and as such reduces grass competition. Good mulches ring around the tree base section but do not tough the tree itself. Good mulch may not require fertilizers to be supplied to the tree
3. Staking the tree
   1. Staking as a form of maintenance is aimed at ensuring the tree stands straight. It is usually done to trees whose root ball is unstable and as such the staking enables the tree enhances its stability. Staking is done using loosely tied, wide straps and should be strictly done when required and not where it is unnecessary.
4. Cleaning the root collar
   1. The tree’s root collar is the transition between the stem and root at the ground line and as such roots that encircle the trunk at the root collar can be harmful to the tree’s health and safety. It is therefore a form of maintenance that should be essential by keeping the root collar clean and free of the encircling roots and also by avoiding the piling of soil around the root collar as it encourages strangler roots.
5. Inspect the tree health
   1. Determinacy of tree health is an expert activity that should be conducted despite not being so subjective. It is however complicated thus should only be carried out by an expert
6. Pruning of the tree
   1. Pruning as a form of maintenance is done by plucking or cutting away critical branches or limbs which are either dead or broken. It can also be done through removal of multiple ladders and leaving behind main or central stem only

Tree maintenance may also be done by practicing certain tree protection measures such as not excavating near trees’ roots, avoid stepping on tree roots, avoiding placing heavy objects near the roots of trees, avoid placing liquids such as chemicals near trees, avoid damaging the tree barks, and finally to avoid hanging or attaching items on trees.

Hope you found some of these maintenance tips helpful. If you are looking for someone who knows their stuff to do this for you, then click here and call us now to schedule a free estimate.

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