With Our – “Did You Knows, Do’s and Don’ts”
If you love your trees as much as the Dallas Tree Doctor does, you’ll take note of the five tips for fall tree care.- Did you know winter is the most active growing season for your tree’s root systems?
- Therefore, continue to water your leaf-losing-friends and perennials weekly.
- DO – water 10 to 15 gallons per diameter inch of the tree trunk and
- DON’T – water at the trunk base (over saturating the tree ball is bad).
- DO – water around the drip line with a soaker hose and
- DON’T waste water if it rained that week.
- Did you know the best time to feed nutrients to your trees is in the fall?
- Feed your trees with the a cocktail of nutrients in the fall season
- DO – use Potassium rich nutrients to further help activate your root systems and
- DON’T – just lay the nutrients on the ground.
- DO – pump the nutrients 4-6” into the ground every 9 square feet and
- DON’T – hesitate to call The Dallas Tree Doctor with his Deep Root Feeding Rig.
- Did you know fall is the optimum time for trimming or dead wooding your trees?
- Trimming helps with airflow and reduced snow weight. Dead wooding = removing dead wood from your trees.
- DO – take off select branches with a clean, surgical base cut and
- DON’T – climb and cut unless you have experience doing this dangerous activity.
- Did you know the trees with a low crotch will eventually split?
- Fall is a great time to insert cabling for low crotch stability.
- DO – cable at a level that doesn’t change the aesthetic optics of your tree and
- DON’T – use cables susceptible to deterioration.
- Did you know fall insect treatments are pointless (with one exception)?
- The Dallas Tree Doctor makes one insect-treatment-exception when it comes to Round Headed Borers.
- DO – Attack those 1,000 egg-laying critters, such as carpenter worms, with a fall treatment and
- DON’T bother after your tree sap stops flowing. (If your trees still have leaves, the sap is still flowing.)
- DO – apply the same treatment routine when the spring sap starts flowing again and
- DON’T – feel bad about eradicating carpenter worms. They’re gross and totally disgusting.