Tree Restore
We provide our Tree Restore Service as an add-on to our seasonal Eco-yards Spray service. It is for clients who have trees that need extra support.
For example, clients tell us the Tree Restore service has:
• Brought a giant Elm tree infected with Elm Scale back to health
• Saved a Pear tree that was originally planted too deeply
• Stopped the progression of Fire Blight for a mature Mountain Ash tree
• Helped Spruce trees recover from road salt damage
Elm Tree Restored to Health
Our Pear tree is doing well after the Tree Restore service. Last year it had just a few leaves and now it looks much healthier. Not many pears yet but maybe next year! An arbourist looked at it a few years ago and thought that we should replace it. I’m glad we didn’t!
Everything looks perkier since we signed up for the Tree Restore service and Eco-yards compost tea spray, not just the trees. The hostas under the Mountain Ash are huge – I can’t get my arms around them. Hostas don’t usually grow that large in Calgary. The flowers near the house are larger too. It is really something!
HOW THE TREE RESTORE SERVICE EVOLVED
An arbourist, who recommends the Eco-yards compost tea Spray service to her clients, asked that we offer something more for troubled trees and suggested options.
In 2014, we started testing ways to prepare the ground under and around trees so the compost tea we use could penetrate deeply to the tree roots. We tested different techniques in our own yards.
In 2016, after we had worked out a method of installing injection wells and we did trials with 5 clients’ trees. To install the wells, we would drill holes into the root zone, then fill them with pea gravel to maintain permeability, and mark them with spikes and coloured tape to make it easier to find them. The clients said it was working – the trees looked healthier. We continued the trials for 3 years with those trees using the injection wells.
In 2019 and 2020, we offered the Tree Restore service more broadly to our regular Eco-yards Spray clients with good results for their trees. One drawback was that we learned that the injection wells would get lost as they were grown over with grass. They would need to be redone every 3-4 years.
In 2024 we introduced a special lance that allows us to inject fluid into the soil at the same depth as we were able to achieve with the injection wells. This breakthrough eliminated the cost and effort of installing injection wells prior to treating the trees.
This breakthrough tool opens up the availability of the tree restore treatment process, and makes it readily available to any client already receiving the Eco-Yards Spray.
HOW TO SIGN UP FOR THE TREE RESTORE TREATMENT
First you will need to sign up for the 3 applications of Eco-yards Spray per season.
The additional cost of the Tree Restore service depends on the number and size of the trees that you want to receive the extra Tree Restore service. If you send us some information on the trees that you’d like to receive the treatment, we will estimate the additional compost tea volume that will be needed and the extra effort to inject the compost tea into the soil around the tree.
E-mail Bob at operations@eco-yards.com with:
• photos from a few angles of each tree
• the measurement from the trunk to the farthest the tree branches reach out from the trunk (the dripline radius) on each tree that you’d like treated
The Eco-Yards team will then phone you to go over the information with you. Then we will email you a quote to treat your trees in addition to the spray service.
The ground preparation that we used to have to do (and associated cost) before treating a tree has all been eliminated. Each time the Eco-yards crew comes to spray your yard, they will inject extra compost tea into the ground around the tree.
Contact us now to set up your Eco-yards™ Spray and Tree Restore service today!
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