Arbor Masters

January

• Tree maintenance (clean, reduce, thin).

 February

• Dormant oil applications for control of over-wintering insects.
• Control of home insect pests (spiders, cockroaches, crickets, etc.).
• Now is the time to plant spring pansies.

 March

• Dormant oil applications to control over-wintering insects.
• Spring deep root fertilization for trees and shrubs.
• Lawn pre-emergent, fertilization application for broadleaf weed control.
• Preventative application for early season leaf feeding insects and wood boring bark beetles.
• Prepare your gardens for planting.
• Remove dead plants and debris; cut back perennials.

 April

• Add a fresh layer of mulch and continue to cutback perennials.
• Sign up for irrigation system turn-on.
• Fruit reducer applications for Sweet gum, Oak, Mulberry, Crabapple, Locust, Redbud and Maple trees.
• Spring deep root fertilization for trees and shrubs.
• Merit application for preventative control of leaf feeding insects and wood boring bark beetle.
• Lawn care program for pre-emergent and fertilization application with broadleaf weed control.
• Insecticide application for aphids on ash, maple, spring cankerworm (Oaks) and numerous varieties of shrubs.
• Flea, tick, chigger application for lawns.

 May

• Fungicide application for needle fungus for Scots, Austrian, and Eastern White Pine.
• Early fungicide application to control sycamore anthracnose on American Sycamores.
• Iron injections to control iron and iron chlorosis of Pin Oak, Sweet gum, Red Maple, and River Birch.
• Bidrin injections to control wood boring bark beetle.
• Insecticide application to control of elm leaf beetle on Elm, Ash, Maple and shrub varieties.
• Fungicide to control Dutch elm and oak wilt disease and sycamore anthracnose.
• Insecticide bait and spray application to control carpenter ants.
• Miticide application to control Spruce spider mites.
• Lawn fungicide application to control brown patch and dollar spot.

 June

• Lawn care fertilization application with grub control and post-emergent broadleaf weed control.
• Fungicide application to control needle fungus for Scots, Austrian, and Eastern White Pine.
• Bidrin injections to control boring bark beetle in deciduous trees.
• Merit application to control scale insect on Scots, Austrian, and Eastern White Pines and leaf feeding insects.
• Insecticide application to control bagworms.
• Iron injections to control iron and iron manganese chlorosis of Pin Oak, Sweet gum, Red Maple, and River Birch.
• Insecticide application to control aphids on River Birch.
• Fungicide infusions to control of Dutch elm disease, oak wilt disease, and sycamore anthracnose.
• Control of home insect pests (spiders, cockroaches, crickets, etc.
• Insecticide bait and spray application to control carpenter ants.
• Lawn fungicide application to control brown patch and dollar spot.
• Lawn application for Flea, tick and chiggers.

 July

• Grub control/post emergent broadleaf weed control on turf..
• Bidrin injections for control boring bark beetle in deciduous trees.
• Merit application to control scale insect on Scots, Austrian, Eastern White Pines and leaf feeding insects.
• Insecticide application to control bagworms.
• Iron injections to control iron and iron manganese chlorosis of Pin Oak, Sweet gum, Red Maple, and River Birch.
• Insecticide application to control aphids on River Birch.
• Fungicide infusions to control Dutch elm and oak wilt disease and sycamore anthracnose.
• Watering program for trees and shrubs during drought months.
• Insecticide bait and spray application to control carpenter ants.
• Insecticide application to control webworms in Walnut, Hickory, Mulberry, Locust and Mimosa.
• Application to control spider mites on trees and shrubs.
• Lawn fungicide application to control brown patch and dollar spot.
• Garden weeding; pruning trees.

 August

• Watering program for trees and shrubs during drought months.
• Insecticide foundation application for control of home insect pests (spiders, cockroaches, crickets, centipedes, millipedes, etc.).
• Bidrin injections to control wood boring bark beetle in deciduous trees.
• Merit application to control scale insect on Scots, Austrian, and Eastern White Pines and leaf feeding insects.
• Fungicide infusions to control Dutch elm disease, oak wilt disease and sycamore anthracnose.
• Iron injections for iron and iron manganese chlorosis of Pin Oak, Sweet gum, Red Maple, and River Birch.
• Insecticide application to control armyworm in trees, shrubs and turf.
• Insecticide application to control webworms in Walnut, Hickory, Mulberry, Locust and Mimosa.
• Application to control spider mites on trees and shrubs.
• Lawn applications to control brown patch and dollar spot.
• Flea, tick, chigger insecticide lawn application.

• Lawn fertilization application and post emergent broadleaf weed control
• Watering program for trees and shrubs during drought months.
• Lawn aeration, power raking and over-seeding
• Iron injections to control iron and iron manganese chlorosis of Pin Oak, Sweet gum, Red Maple, and River Birch (Temps below 90 degrees)
• Foundation application for home insect pests (spiders, cockroaches, crickets, etc.).
• Insecticide bait and spray for control of carpenter ants.
• Insecticide application for control of aphids on Scots, Austrian and Eastern White Pine.

 October

• Fall Deep root fertilization for trees and shrubs.
• Lawn aeration, power raking and over-seeding for optimum germination of grass seed.
• Insecticide application to control aphids on Scots, Austrian, and Eastern White Pine.
• Plant fall pansies.
• Fall leaf and garden clean up.
• Prune trees.
• Fall tree and shrub deep root fertilization.

 November

• Fall tree and shrub root fertilization.
• Lime/sulfur applications to regulate pH levels in lawns.
• Fall leaf and garden cleanup.
• Plant tulip bulbs.
• Evaluate trees for storm damage prevention.

 December

• Foundation application for home insect pests (spiders, cockroaches, crickets, etc.).
• Fall deep root fertilization for trees and shrubs (weather dependent on freezing conditions).