PLANT HEALTH
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Lawn & Tree Health Services
What to Expect & When
Complete lawn, tree, and plant care services provided by professionally trained and accredited technicians.
Proper plant care requires professional applicators, but it also requires professional quality products, not just any fertilizer or compost. It involves doing the right treatment, at the right time, with the right quantity, for the right reason, by the right people.
Our plant care technicians are trained to do the right treatment for your lawn so you can get maximum value with a minimum of inconvenience to you.
While all our plant care services can be purchased individually, our services are available in a variety of packaged programs, best suited for your needs.
Lawn Insect Services & Descriptions
Active Insect Treatment
Dry patches in the hot summer months are often a sign of insect problems. Insects can cause significant damage in a short period of time so timing of treatment is crucial. A special permit from the NB Provincial Department of Environment is required if your pesticide allotment is used up doing other pesticide applications, including weed treatments. All pesticide applications must follow Provincial Government regulations and adhere to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices. Once treated, the insect problem should be under control within a few days and should remain effective for a couple of weeks. Multiple treatments may be necessary during times of high infestation. Our treatments address insects such as Chinch Bug, Sod Webworm, and Leather Jackets.
HOME OWNER:
- Your lawn should be cut at 7.5 cm (3 inches) for insect treatment to be effective.
- Do not water the grass for 48 hours after application. This will provide adequate time for the product to be effective.
- Stay off the grass, including animals, for 24 hours after application.
- If the treatment solution comes in contact with your skin, simply wash with soap and water.
- Damaged areas will need repairs with topsoil, grass seed or sod.
Pre-Emergence Insect Treatment
This treatment usually takes place in early summer to help avoid significant insect issues during the summer and the early fall months when the insects are most damaging. This treatment does not prevent chinch bug activity. Our treatments address White Grub “slug-like” insects including European Chafer Beetle.
HOME OWNER:
- Do not mow or water for 24 hours after application. This will provide adequate time for the product to be effective.
- Lightly water after application.
- Stay off the grass, including animals, for 24 hours after application.
- If the treatment solution comes in contact with your skin, simply wash with soap and water.
- Damaged areas will need repairs with topsoil, grass seed or sod.
Lawn Health Services & Descriptions
Soil Test - Nutrient
Our soil test determines pH, the macro and micro nutrient levels, and other soil properties that may affect turf health. The test helps determine what treatments are needed including calcium amendment requirements to correct any deficiencies.
Core Aeration
This involves perforating the soil with small holes to allow water, air and nutrients to infiltrate the grass roots. This helps the roots grow deeply and produce a stronger, more healthy lawn. Aerating also alleviates soil compaction. When aerating, cores are left on the ground as a natural topdressing material and incorporate as organic matter into the thatch and upper soil levels.
HOME OWNER:
- You can continue your regular mowing schedule, cores will simply break down and serve as organic matter on your lawn. Rake and scatter the cores elsewhere on the property if you prefer.
Gypsum with Humic
A lawn care application currently only available as an individual application, that can be applied in late fall or early spring. Gypsum with Humic is great for helping to loosen up clay soils and allows oxygen into the soils for good root growth. It also allows sodium and other minerals to release from the soil particles and for water to flow through the soil better. It helps to neutralize acid in soils (does not change the PH in soils). Humic adds organic matter to the soils and helps to promote good root growth.
Calcium Amendment
The primary role of calcium amendment, also known as liming, is to help maintain chemical balance in the soil, reduce soil salinity, and improve water penetration. Application rate is based on only maintaining your current pH values, the amount of product does not correct a low pH value.
HOME OWNER:
- You can continue your regular mowing schedule. You can also do fall cleanup as the product is pelletized and falls off tree leaves. When the product gets wet, it will bind to the surface.
Granular Topdressing
Granular Topdressing is an affordable and great way to add the value of traditional “soil” topdressing to your lawn. It will improve soil structure for better rooting, increase Microbial diversity and activity allowing them to extract the nutrients needed for strong turf health. This application will add higher levels of organic matter to your lawn, which means less water usage and faster green up. It reduces thatch naturally by increasing your turf’s resiliency to environmental stresses.
Fertilizer - Granular
A high quality slow release granular fertilizer provides a complete range of nutrients for healthy turf. Our fertilizer will not break down in sunlight or leach through the soil with watering or rainfall and will stay in the root zone of the grass plant. Our fertilizer is safe for people and pets immediately following application.
HOME OWNER:
- You can continue your regular mowing schedule. Note that cutting height should be higher during the summer months. Continue to mow until freeze up to prevent disease and matted grass in the spring.
- Watering is normally required during the summer months to benefit the fertilization. An average of half an inch of water per week is recommended to sustain proper growth, colour and vitality.
Fertilizer – Liquid Bio Nutrients
A high quality liquid organic blend to establish soil biology. We apply bio nutrients blended specifically for turf grass. This will introduce microorganisms into the soil that are beneficial to the soil ecology and lawn health. This is very important for overall plant and root health, growth, and stress resistance. Our fertilizer is safe for people and pets immediately following application.
HOME OWNER:
- Do not mow for 24 hours after application. Note that cutting height should be higher during the summer months. Continue to mow until freeze up to prevent disease and matted grass in the spring.
- We recommend you lightly water after application. Also, watering is normally required during the summer months to benefit the fertilization. An average of half an inch of water per week is recommended to sustain proper growth, colour and vitality.
Weed Treatment - Natural
A natural alternative to our traditional weed treatment. This treatment uses iron to combat weeds. Two applications are required approximately a month apart.
HOME OWNER:
- Do not mow or water for 24 hours after application. This will provide adequate time for the product to be effective.
- Broadleaf weeds should start curling within two weeks and should be totally dead within four weeks.
Weed Treatment - Traditional
Provincial law permits lawn care companies to use up to a 50% pesticide allotment for your total lawn area in one year. For this reason, we usually complete a spot weed treatment for the most visual areas as needed using up the allotment unless otherwise directed. If the weed population is not too severe, we may be able to use this 50% allotment over the entire lawn. Application is normally late spring or early summer but may vary based on weed population and weather conditions.
HOME OWNER:
- Stay off the grass and do not mow or water for 24 hours after application. This will provide adequate time for the product to be effective.
- Broadleaf weeds should start curling within two weeks and should be totally dead within four weeks.
- If the treatment solution comes in contact with your skin, simply wash with soap and water.
Tree & Shrub Services & Descriptions
Birch Banding
Helps control leaf eating insects. A second treatment is required in 30-45 days.
Dormant Oil
Assist with control of overwintering eggs and scale insects. We apply a dormant oil as required. Completed in early spring before the trees bud out. Cannot be applied to blue spruce.
Fertilizer – Deep Root
To supply nutrients directly to the root zone.
Insect Treatment – Tree
Used generally during the summer months to control insects in trees, shrubs & perennials.
Fungicide – Evergreens
Treatment for fungal diseases that are common in evergreen trees & shrubs. These diseases cause an evergreen to appear sick or dying and can greatly weaken plants.