Organic
Fertilization And Soil Management
Organic
Fertilization And Soil Management
Keslick And Son now offers a unique fertilization program keeping your trees specific requirements in mind. We specialize in "PROPER" fertilization of mature and maturing trees. The arrangement of elements and dose to apply to a mature tree is a great deal different than the elements and dose used to fertilize a young tree. A young tree is a tree that is 100% dynamic mass. Meaning that every place it can have a living cell it does. A mature tree may be 80% static to 20% dynamic. Many so called professional outfits, too often neglect, taking the maturity of a tree into consideration when fertilizing, pruning and so forth. Phone "Keslick And Son" and we will set up an appointment for a tree biologist to meet with you and discuss options for your trees. We will thoroughly explain the treatments we recommend based on an understanding of tree biology. We have special arrangements of elements to fertilize your specific tree. As it stands, once we satisfied the desire of our tree biologist request for specific elements, the product we chose for its chemical properties, happens to be organic and natural. It contains many micro-elements as well as bio-stimulants. For those people that think all chemicals are bad, don't drink water. It's a chemical. Anybody outside our area of service can feel free to contact us and discuss fertilization.
Food is a substance that provides and energy source, mostly. Nutrient is a substance that provides an energy source, elements, and other substances essential for life, in types and amounts that can provide a healthy life. Fertilizer is a substance that provides elements, as salts mostly, or in bonded forms, that require microorganisms to alter to forms that can be absorbed by plants. We cannot and do not feed plants. We add essential elements at Keslick And Son. Trees manufacture their own food and they do not absorb a nutrient or food from the soil. We add essential elements.
If we could feed trees, we would take away the major job of the sun! People who say "plant food" are ignorant about photosynthesis.
In other words: Foods are substances that contain an energy source mostly, and may contain some elements, and other substances. The main part of food is the energy source. There are junk foods, fatty foods, and healthy foods. There are many diet books telling you about healthy foods. Animals can absorb an energy source. Plants cannot absorb an energy source. fertilizers are not plant foods. Fertilizers provide elements essential for growth of plants. The elements are part of salts, usually, that ionize in water. Ions are charged particles; anions, negative, and cations, positive. Plants "make" carbohydrates by trapping the light energy of the sun in a process called photosynthesis. Sad that so many people who work with plants do not know this. They call fertilizers plant food. Very sad.
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John A. Keslick Jr.
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