Projects

Compost: Transforming garbage into gold!

Compost: Transforming garbage into gold! Compost: Transforming garbage into gold! Composting involves the natural process of recycling organic matter, as food scraps and plant debris, resulting in a nutrient-rich mixture that can serve as fertilizer and enhance soil quality. If you’re throwing away kitchen scraps like coffee grounds and eggshells, and not recycling yard waste like leaves and grass clippings, you’re missing out on some valuable resources! Instead of letting these items go to a landfill, they should be added to your compost bin where they can do some good. […]

SELECTING A TREE CARE Company FOR YOUR HOA

SELECTING A TREE CARE Company FOR YOUR HOA SELECTING A TREE CARE Company FOR YOUR HOA. Trees improve the visual appeal and practicality of your community by offering shade, fresh air, and a lovely natural setting. But taking care of trees can be a difficult undertaking that calls for knowledge and experience. Selecting the best tree care provider is essential to keeping your neighborhood safe and your trees in good condition. When choosing a tree care provider for your homeowners association, keep the following points in mind. The qualifications and […]

What is a sawmill and how do you use it?

What is a sawmill and how do you use it? What is a sawmill and how do you use it? A sawmill, machine or plant with power-driven machines for sawing logs into rough-squared sections or into planks and boards. A sawmill may be equipped with planing, molding, tenoning, and other machines for finishing processes’ Use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The sawmill is simple to operate. The log lies flat on a […]

Common Mistakes in Tree Care and How to Fix Them

Common Mistakes in Tree Care and How to Fix Them Common Mistakes in Tree Care and How to Fix Them: When caring for your cherished landscaping, killing a tree is the farthest thing from a homeowner’s mind. with the best of intentions, mishandled tree pruning can be fatal to a tree—and we’re not just talking about topping them. Inadequate tree care techniques, such as selecting the incorrect species for a site, mulching trees incorrectly, and using inadequate irrigation and fertilization methods, can cause stress on trees and ultimately result in […]

What is CODIT Pruning

What is CODIT Pruning Trees provide shade and beauty, create oxygen, reduce greenhouse gases, help prevent erosion, and even increase property values But in the absence of adequate maintenance, trees are vulnerable to pests, disease, and structural flaws that can lead to their failure (fall). Pruning is an essential part of caring for trees. To enhance the stability and structure of trees, qualified ISA arborists, like us at Johnson Ops Tree Care we apply CODIT (Compartmentalization of Decay in Trees) trimming procedures. What is CODIT Pruning? CODIT pruning removes branches […]

A Beautiful Snowy Day

A Beautiful Snowy Day You wake up to a beautiful snowy day, and it looks like it will keep snowing all day. Since you’re not particularly in the mood to bundle up and go outdoors, what should you do? Perhaps now is the right moment to begin that project you’ve been considering. Let’s construct the desk, table, or bar top you’ve been envisioning. Where do I begin? Let’s find a nice quality slab. At Johnson Ops Tree Care we offer a wide variety of Urban Kiln dried Slabs and Lumber, […]

The Fall Gardening Guide

Fall Gardening Tips to Remember Fall is often known as the harvest season. People gather the produce from their gardens to be eaten or preserved before the next planting season begins. While autumn ushers in the colder and harsher part of the year, it’s still possible to have a well-maintained fall garden. Planting during the fall will require more attention from you as a gardener. Your plants will also take more time to mature. Their growth may be slower than usual due to insufficient sunlight and frigid soil temperature. […]

Proper Tree Installation

Proper tree installation techniques are an extremely important process that provides many benefits. 8 out of 10 trees are planted too deep, and while they will still grow, they will never reach their full potential and will cause issues as the tree grows. Our company partnered with Legacy trees uses a method that prevents trees from being planted too deep and keeps roots from girdling. We take great delight in assisting our clients in understanding the process as we go along, Our Arborist Kris or Ron from Legacy Trees will provide you with […]

The Benefits of Removing Tree Stumps

The decision to remove tree stumps from your lawn can take some time to consider. Maybe you extracted an existing tree from your yard, or the stump was already there when you moved into the property. It may not seem like a problem now, but leaving a tree stump to rot may cause issues in the future. Here are a few good reasons for you to consider removing tree stumps from your yard. Get Improved Curb Appeal Tree stumps left to rot in the yard are often unsightly. Apart from […]

Winter Projects 2015

Winter Projects 2015, This past winter we have been braving the cold to complete some projects. We have been working with Perrot State Park in Trempealeau, WI to help them remove some hazardous Ash trees and Oak trees. Emerald Ash Borer( The emerald ash borer, also known by the acronym EAB, is a green buprestid or jewel beetle native to northeastern Asia that feeds on ash species. Females lay eggs in bark crevices on ash trees, and larvae feed underneath the bark of ash trees to emerge as adults in […]