LandscapExperts Tip of the Week, December 31

What to do with your old Christmas tree?  Best Practices

Chipping and shredding discarded Christmas trees is a best practice.

Christmas is winding down. After enjoying a live, cut Christmas Tree (and supporting GeorgiaChristmasTreeGrowers.org) there is the challenge of disposal. 

CrabappleLandscapExperts maintain a large green recycling program to turn trimmings and yard waste from the properties we manage into rich brown compost that can be added to flower beds or used as a nutritious organic mulch. Read more about how Crabapple LandscapExperts upcycle green material. 

Find a Christmas tree recycling program in your municipality and contribute to the solution. 

LandscapExperts Tip of the Week, November 26

Executing a Landscape Renovation

Backfilling the Planting Hole

The main reason for digging a wide planting hole is so we have plenty of soil that can be “fluffed up” or turned and aerated for backfilling around the root system or root ball. 

Where formerly a variety of organic materials were added to the backfill soil, Crabapple LandscapExperts follow current agricultural research recommendations for best practices and simply disturb an area two to three times the diameter of the root ball in width to produce a zone of well-aerated native soil that plant roots readily grow into in the month or two following planting.