Vertical Mulching

CS Tree Services provides vertical mulching services to help encourage healthy roots in your trees.

Vertical mulching can achieve several goals for the roots of your tree. It helps aerate the soil where the roots are. This creates more space in the soil for oxygen and water, the two most important elements for healthy root production. Compaction is one of the most common problems for roots, leading to anaerobic activity in the soil, as well as leaving very little room for water, vital to a trees healthy growth.

Vertical mulching also helps add organic material into the soil around the root system. Organic material breakdown into the soil, providing more aeration, food for beneficial micro-organisms and organic compounds important to the trees nutritional needs.

The process for vertical mulching is fairly easy on trees. Holes are created in a grid-like pattern throughout the root zone of an affected tree. These holes are then filled with organic material (i.e. rich composts and mulch) and the entire area given a fresh layer of mulch.