Tree & Shrub Care

Maintaining your trees and shrubs keeps them healthy and attractive and can add not only to your personal enjoyment of the lawn but also to your resale value. Turf & Tree Worx. provides a full range of services for residential and commercial trees and shrubs.

Services

• Pruning
• Removal                                                                    
• Site Clearing                                                            
• Storm Damage                                                           
• Diagnostic & Consultation Service                            
• Insect & Disease Control
• Fertilizing
• Micro Injections when the treatment need is urgent and/or spraying isn't an option - This is an environmentally friendly alternative for your ornamental pest problems.

Tree & Shrub Pruning and Removal

Turf & Tree Worx provides complete pruning and removal services for unwanted and/or damaged trees and shrubs, including storm damaged trees.  Our estimates include site clean-up, chipping, and hauling away of brush and debris. 

• Why? Pruning the tree improves plant health, as the tree will be more resistant to insects and diseases; it also provides filtered sunlight to the lawn and plants below the tree. Pruning the tree will improve the appearance of your home and help to insure the safety of your home.
• How? Basic pruning consists of thinning, shaping, raising and removing dead wood. It might also include taking trees down.
• What? Most trees and shrubs. (Contact us with any questions)

Treatments

All of our spray treatments contain a tacking agent to keep the product on the foliage longer and to withstand rainfall.  There are six different treatments that can be applied each season.  Treatments are applied in four-to six -week intervals, with the exception of applications 1 & 2 which can be applied on the same day or within days of each other, if needed.  The general program consists of fertilizer, insect and disease control.

Use the links below to learn more about each of our Tree & Shrub Treatments:

• Dormant Oil Treatments
• Early Spring Deep Root Fertilization
• Spring Insect & Disease Control
• Emerald Ash Bore Prevention and Control
• Gypsy Moth Control
• Summer Insect, Disease and Mite Control
• Late Summer Insect, Disease & Mite Control
• Fall Deep Root Fertilization
• Mauget (Micro Injections)
• Note: Lawn Systems, Inc. applications of Merit can be added to Deep Root Fertilizer for prevention of most pest problems; including Emerald Ash Bore

• When? Before buds break
• What it does: Controls insects in their dormant stage
• What can be sprayed: Most trees and shrubs, except Silver Maple, Spruce and Fir
• How is it applied? As a spray treatment, covering the trunk up to the first set of limbs. Shrubs are covered in their entirety

Early Spring Deep Root Fertilization

• When? Spring
• What it does: This is an application that will get your trees off to a healthy start, enhancing structural development by promoting top growth and promoting health lush foliage
• What: Most trees and shrubs
• How is it applied? Into the soil, in and around the plant's drip line, into the root zone, at a rate of 100-150 pounds of pressure

Spring Insect and Disease Control

• When? April and May
• What it does: Controls insects, fungi and disease
• What can be sprayed: Most trees and shrubs
• How is it applied? With a hand sprayer or high-volume spray system on the specific trees or shrubs that are susceptible to insects and disease

Summer Insect, Disease and Mite Control

• When? June, July and August. Follow up spray application to third treatment. Provides continued control of insects and diseases, with added mite control

Late Summer Insect, Disease and Mite Control

• When? September and October. Same as spring and summer applications

Fall Deep Root Fertilization

• When? October
• What it does: Contributes to winter reserve of nutrients. Enhances root development
• What can be injected: Most trees and shrubs
• How is it applied? Into the soil around the plant's drip line, into the root zone, at a rate of 150-250 pounds of pressure

Mauget (Micro Injections

These small medicine caps are also used for fertilization, and insect & disease control.  This type of treatment is a direct injection into the tree trunk, which acts quicker.  This method of treatment is preferred when spraying pesticides into the air is not environmentally friendly option. If the applications are for trees only (not shrubs), and/or if the tree has a critical problem that needs aggressive treatment.

It is also one of two main treatment options for gypsy moth and Emerald Ash Bore control.

We also can add Merit to our spring or fall deep root fertilizer mix or separately.  Merit injected (also referred to as soil drench) into the root zone of trees and shrubs is a systemic pesticide which is a popular treatment in preventing many pest problems, including Emerald Ash Bore.

Mauget also offers a product that works well in preventing Apple Scab.  This product must be injected in early spring before bud break.  This is a one time application as an alternative to spraying multiple times throughout the season.

Gypsy Moth Spraying

• When? May and June

Note: Gypsy moth problems need to be addressed early,