Lush, green, and healthy landscapes
are supported by healthy soils.

Soil Health Programs

Description

As part of Collier Arbor Care’s sustainability initiative we are proud to announce our Soil Health program that improves poor soils by promoting healthy soil biology, providing plant nutrition and is all organic. Our program features the use of compost tea, organic fertilizers and Mycorrhizae (a beneficial root fungus) to sustainably enhance our landscape soils. Our three times per year program promotes healthy soil biology that naturally releases plant nutrients, improves soil structure and helps decrease harmful disease and pest problems. This innovative all natural program replaces the traditional approach of using commercial fertilizers that are often over applied and do little to enhance the biological activity that is necessary for sustainable soil
building and nutrient cycling.

If you can only do one thing to promote the health and beauty of your landscape plants the Soil Health Program is it! Call us today to schedule a Collier Arborist to visit and assess your landscape and find out how our all natural program will protect and benefit your plants and soil sustainability.

Components

Compost Tea

Our tea is a mix of water and organic products including Alaska humus (extreme Alaska temperatures help provide a particularly rich soil), humic acid, kelp and fish hydrolasate (a type of fish fertilizer). After brewing the tea the result is a concentrated complex of billions of beneficial biological organisms and natural nutrients that is then applied as either a foliar or soil treatment. This in turn promotes healthy biological soil processes that naturally release plant nutrients, improves soil structure and helps reduce harmful disease and pest problems.

Organic Fertilizer

Our organic fertilizer is comprised of fish hydrolysate which provides a slow release form of nitrogen as well as a healthy balance of 18 macro nutrients and more than 60 micro nutrients and trace minerals necessary for healthy plant growth.

Mycorrhizae

Beneficial Mycorrhizal fungi, combined with a root stimulant containing humates, nitrogen fixing bacteria, vitamins and biostimulant to emulate forest soils. Improves feeder root development, water and nutrient absorption and helps to protect against some soil diseases.

Programs

Soil Health Care

Compost tea, fertilizer and Mycorrhizae applications are used to improve the soil biology in spring, summer and fall to all trees and ornamentals.

Targeted Soil Health Care

Same as above, but treating only designated “signature” trees/plants in your landscape.

Testimonials

Here is what some of our customers think about our organic soil health programs:

Pam of Portland
Re: Compost Tea Treatments

We have been using Collier’s ever growing organic services since they began offering them. We started with the mycorrhiza treatments for our trees, and then became a test site for the compost tea in 2007. The program has been outstanding, with the plants growing bigger and better than ever before. This was verified by the comments I received in June of 2008 during a Master Gardener tour of my garden, during which people exclaimed over and over about the size of my hostas and lush growth throughout the garden. Collier has also used the tea for targeted control of specific pests as well, again with excellent results. I would highly recommend all customers to try the tea-it is better for the garden and the environment.

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Jana of Tigard
Re: Soil Health Program

Their services at our home expanded to… their soil analysis and enrichment program. They are the “cream of the crop”, experts and the right people for tree, shrub, soil and so much more garden care and health.

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