How To Protect Your Saplings

A tree specialist is the best at helping you to get started with your sapling. They make sure you are choosing the best sapling for your environment. Tree specialists have the best equipment for giving your sapling the strong start it needs. Planting your tree is the easy part of sapling care, but protecting and maintaining your sapling may be a bit more difficult and time consuming. These three simple steps make sure your sapling grows healthy and strong.

Preparing to Protect Saplings

Weeds and grasses can take advantage of your sapling and steal all of its nutrients. That is why they need to be cleared in order to protect saplings and for them to grow strong. Begin by clearing a space within a 3-foot radius of the tree. You can clear weeds and grasses with chemical herbicide, but be careful not to spray on windy or rainy days to help protect saplings. After getting rid of the weeds, lay down 3-6 inches of organic mulch to stop new weeds from growing. When adding protection, it can be hard to get rid of weeds again, so stopping the process is the best way to help the sapling. Mulch also retains moisture in the soil. In more dry areas, it might be best to set down a plastic or fabric weed mat to ensure the moisture is being retained.

Protecting Your Sapling

Wandering deer and other critters can harm a sapling. Protect saplings by putting up a fence helps separate the sapling from wondering critters. A chicken wire fence is easy to set up. All you’ll need is 4 wooden posts, chicken wire, and mesh. Drive the wooden posts into the ground, being careful not to harm the sapling’s roots. Connect the posts by wrapping the chicken wire around them. Start by wrapping around one post and move onto the next and keep going until you have got a sturdy layer of chicken wire all around the sapling. Add a layer of mesh on top for extra protection if you please. Begin by wrapping the mesh around one post and onto the next till you’ve got another layer on top of the chicken wire. The extra layer of mesh should keep critters, deer, and surrounding weeds away from your sapling. This should keep your sapling safe to grow big and strong.

Maintaining Your Sapling

Like any other plant, saplings need to be cared for throughout in order to really grow. Protect saplings by replacing organic mulch every so often as it decomposes. If your sapling needs extra nutrients use a supplement. Supplements are like food for trees and they are a great source to help maintain a strong root system. Removing the dead branches is a great way to make sure that your sapling looks healthy and grows strong. Tree removal might be necessary to maintain a safe environment. Tree specialists can perform a tree health inspection to see if your sapling has any other needs or if a sapling needs to be removed. Tree removal should be done by a tree specialist to ensure that there is no damage done to the sapling or the property.

Need Help Protecting Your Saplings?

Protecting one sapling might not be time consuming, but protecting saplings on a commercial property is be more difficult. Finding tree specialists in your area might be the best course of action. LTRC Tree Specialists make it their mission to care and maintain your trees. They have a team of certified arborists that can guarantee your sapling is cared for. They offer many services that take the worry of caring, protecting and maintaining your sapling off your hands.