PLANT HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Keeping It Green with Plant Healthcare Services
Trees, shrubs, and perennial plantings are an important part of your landscape. They offer shade, color, and privacy, define the different areas your property, and soften the edges of structures and hardscape. Proper care of these valuable “green assets“ is necessary to ensure their continued growth, health, and well-being. You have invested in your property and landscape and Plant Health Care will help protect that investment. We offer different programs based on the number and variety of plants on your site.
Plant Healthcare Services Include:
- Targeted Treatment Programs
- Soil Amendment Programs
- Tick Control Programs
- Party/Event Pest Spraying
- Spotted Lantern Fly
- Spongey Moth (Gypsy Moth)
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IPM (Integrated Pest Management)
Targeted Treatment Programs
Often a property will have only a few key plants that the owner is concerned about or that are highly susceptible to pests, diseases, etc. A few examples are: Hemlocks (scale, adelgids, mites), Crabapples (rust, scab), Dogwood (anthracnose, powdery mildew) and Birch (borer, leaf miner)In this case we can prescribe a treatment program to address just the area of concern, typically 2-4 treatments specifically timed for the best control of the problem.
Soil Amendment Programs
Tick Control Programs
Party/Event Pest Spraying
Spotted Lantern Fly
The SLF excretes honeydew (a sugary substance) as it feeds, that can build up and promote the growth of sooty mold (fungi), which can cover and injure plants and forest understories, as well as get on patio furniture, cars, and anything else found below the lanternfly’s feeding area. Farmside can help! We recommend to remove 90% of the Ailanthus trees on your property and leave one or two “trap trees” that allows us to treat a limited area with minimal impacts to the environment, and kill the SLF that feed on the trap trees.
If you do not have Ailanthus trees on your property and still have issues with SLF we can treat the primary hosts of the insect. If you have an abundant number of insects we may recommend a control application. SLF are hoppers and flyers so while we treat your house they may fly from other areas around your house.
Spongey Moth (Gypsy Moth)
Spongey Moth, previously known as “Gypsy Moth” Caterpillars can defoliate trees quickly–in as short a period of 4-6 weeks. Defoliation is a great stressor on trees, increasing their vulnerability to other diseases and problems that can potentially lead to their decline and eventual removal. This can incur considerable cost to homeowners, and impact the overall aesthetic of the landscape.” Our Plant Health Care specialists will evaluate the population of the moth on your property and create a plan to stop their damage to your valued landscape.
