Mulch

Essential Tasks for Your Fall Yard Cleanup

Essential Tasks for Your Fall Yard Cleanup The fall season offers a wonderful opportunity to spend time in your yard, enjoying the refreshing sunlight and the slower pace of everyday life. And the best part? No mosquitoes! If you invest some effort in preparing your yard for winter this Fall, you’ll be rewarded with a flourishing garden in the spring. -Here are essential tasks for your fall yard cleanup How to Prepare Your Yard for Winter Remove plant debris, particularly from the vegetable garden, as certain pests and diseases […]

How do you keep mature trees healthy?

How do you keep mature trees healthy? How do you keep mature trees healthy? trees provide shade and many benefits to the urban environment. While they require different treatment than young trees, they still need regular watering, pruning, disease prevention, and protection. Mature trees grow more slowly than young trees and are very sensitive to their surrounding environment. If older trees are damaged or left with large pruning wounds, they regrow wood slowly and are more susceptible to disease. If watered improperly or growing in poor soil conditions, the tree’s […]

Easy, inexpensive, and nourishing fertilization methods

Easy, inexpensive, and nourishing fertilization methods Choose compost, leaf mulch, or wood chips/mulch Easy, inexpensive, and nourishing fertilization methods: Do you feel that your landscape can benefit from fertilizing it? Are the edges of your tree’s leaves becoming brown? are there fewer blooms on your bushes this year? While using conventional chemical fertilizers could be alluring, doing so can have long-term negative effects if used incorrectly. Chemical fertilizers, are best to be left to the professionals, for best-used strategies. Contact a tree care company such as Johnson Ops Tree Care, […]

Mulch Dos and Don’ts

Mulch Dos and Don’ts Mulch is a wonderful way to care for trees, new and existing. It conserves moisture in the soil, promotes a natural rate of evaporation, regulates soil temperature year-round, provides protection from weeds and it looks nice. Did you know that over-mulching your trees will make them susceptible to damage, and even kill them? When you invest time and money, to beautify your landscape and provide shade, dead trees likely aren’t your end goal. Many professional landscapers use a method called volcano mulching. You’ve likely seen it […]

Reduce your water usage while keeping your trees healthy

Reduce your water usage while keeping your trees healthy. Reduce your water usage while keeping your tree healthy. One of the best methods of supporting the health of your mature trees and saplings while conserving water is to use mulch. Mulching isn’t difficult, and this protective ground covering not only saves water, but it can also control weeds, enrich your soil, and more. With the steps outlined below, you’ll learn how to mulch trees, and how much mulch to use. 5 Ways Trees Benefit from Proper Mulching First, let’s look […]

Time to Mulch

Time to Mulch, With Spring around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about your landscape and a good time to Mulch. In The Garden: Mulch helps slow moisture evaporation so more water remains in the soil and is available to thirsty plant roots. Helps prevent weeds. A 2- to 3-inch layer of mulch naturally helps prevent weeds from sprouting and taking over the landscape by blocking their growth and access to sunlight. Trees: Trees with mulched root zones are usually larger, healthier, develop faster, and have higher rates […]

What Happens to the Brush and Wood…

What Happens to the Brush and Wood… Your trees need to be pruned or perhaps removed, you contact Johnson Ops Tree Care to come to take care of them. The work gets done, your trees and yard look fantastic. What happens to the brush and wood… after it leaves your property? As members of the Wisconsin Urban Wood Network, we make every effort to use all available wood and brush. The major benefits of trees come from their strong, healthy development, but even once they are no longer able to […]

Signs You Have a Low-Quality Mulch

For many, tending to a garden is a hobby that can bring a lot of joy. From trees to flower beds, there are several ways that you can cultivate successful growth. However, if you spread low-quality mulch in your garden, it may set your entire landscape up for failure. While mulching may seem like a basic gardening step, choosing the standard of your compost or soil covering can promote healthy greenery. Adding the right mulch to your garden protects your plants from direct sunlight and holds in moisture. First-rate […]

Mulch – Why Is It Important and How Does It Help Trees Grow?

Mulch – Why Is It Important and How Does It Help Trees Grow? Trees need as much care and attention as any other plant in order to thrive. One of the most important things you can do for them is to mulch – to put a layer of material (also called mulch) on top of the soil around them. Let’s take a look at how important mulching is, and how mulch helps trees to grow and thrive. Types of Mulch Mulch can be made of almost anything. Most common […]