Nutrition of Trees and Soil in
Various Ways
Fertilization (glut nourishment)
Amendments
(more of the same goodies)
When man
interferes with these natural functions, he creates a
biological nightmare that he and his trees become slaves
to, unless he chooses to wake up from this bad
dream.
The natural
healthy state for a tree is to let it grow to its full
reproductive state and natural beauty. In the Urban
setting, the nutrient rich top soils are scraped away to
set a foundation and construct a home. As part of the
landscape process, building debris and waste is dumped
or poured on the ground, then buried and covered up. Man
intervenes with landscaping, crowding the trees with
shrubbery and grass. When finished it is called: “Home
Sweet Home”.
Man has
exerted a great crushing pressure on his once beautiful
delicate trees. In the process the tree trunks are
gauged, debarked, roots trampled and limbs torn off and
broken. The damaged trunk cell walls and delicate
vascular tissue has suffered tissue injury and
construction stress. Man proceeds with inadvertent
pruning, chopping and hacking off limbs without design,
regard or concern for sanitary hygiene for his trees, to
most efficiently transfer disease inoculums from one
tree to another. Thank God he does not carve up the
Thanksgiving Turkey with his pruning tools. This would
be grounds for spousal murder.
As the
injured, brutalized and infected patient tries to deal
with the tough rigors of day to day survival the best it
knows how, its caretaker decides it’s lunchtime. A
cocktail first, Vermouth (Insecticide) Gin (Fungicide)
misted over the entire tree for the effects of a fresh
cooling shower, always best before lunch. For the first
course and amendments, hearty vegetable soup of broth
(liquid N) salt (K) and pepper (P), but there seems to
be something missing. Where is the substance? Where is
the beef? Meat (Ca & Mg), potatoes (S), carrots (Zn
an Mn), green beans (B & Cu), onions (Se &Mo),
and corn (Co, V &Ni); all part of the diet. The
caretaker has just piled enough addicting,
substance-less junk food around his trees and landscape
to last for twelve months.
The patient,
now a drug addict, is rushed to emergency, suffering
from a drug overdose. Infection (anthracnose, fusarium)
sets in and mega doses of drugs (fungicides) are
administered to the weak and dying patient. Now in its
immunes compromised state, the tree doctor (Lawn
&Tree Man) prescribes more vegetable soup (broth,
salt and pepper). The patient’s lab test indicates
anemia so a STAT blood transfusion (iron) is ordered. As
the infection become critical, more drugs (fungicides;
electrolytes and nutrient infusion) are prescribed. A
skin carcinoma (browning and scorched leaf tips)
develops and begins to spread. A transplant is ordered
by the doctor, but too late; the patient dies of
addiction and drug overdose.
Meanwhile
the disease-contaminated body fluids were spread by
man’s surgical tools to other once healthy green trees
and an epidemic begins among the rest of the immune
compromised suburb residents.
This
nightmare plagues not only the tree and landscape
industry; it is equally frightening to the agricultural
and other related industries. Is there a way out of this
bad dream? .............. Yes !
Balanced
nutrition and appropriate tree care.
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