Soil Management focuses on different soil types and characteristics that enhance the quality of the soil. This process is an integral part of land management and necessary to ensure food security. Monitoring the soil could improve agriculture production, contribute to green economic growth, and prevent climate change.
This part of land management is crucial to improve poor land management practices that could harm the soil's ability to absorb rainfall. Continuous cropping of agricultural lands may deteriorate structure that helps keep soil voids and pores open. Over-compacted soil due to ill-timed harvesting is the product of reduced infiltration.
How Could Arborcraft Tree Services Help You With Soil Management?
Microorganism Inoculation
It is adding effective bacteria to host plant seeds before planting them. The main purpose of inoculation is to ensure that enough correct bacteria are present in the soil. This matter is necessary to achieve the successful establishment of legume-bacterial symbiosis. Microorganisms are known to:
● Break Down Organic Matter - This involves chemical alteration of organic matter, physical fragmentation, and mineral nutrients release. Organic molecules are broken down into simpler molecules requiring different decomposition or mineralized nutrients during decomposition.
● Help The Soil Retain Its Moisture - Soil moisture is the key to controlling the exchange of water and heat energy between the land surface and the atmosphere in the means of evaporation and plant transpiration. As a result, soil moisture contributes to precipitation and weather patterns development.
● Encourage Good Soil Structure - A good soil structure is crucial to allow water and air into the soil, necessary for healthy plant growth. This process will improve drainage and resist soil erosion due to excess surface run-off. The soil will suffer from nutrient lock-up and waterlogging without a good structure. Also, it might cause anaerobic, and ultimately, plants will die.
● Give Trees The Vital Mineral Nutrients They Need - Plants also need appropriate minerals to build healthy root systems and sturdy cell walls, just like humans who need calcium for stronger bones and teeth. Calcium helps transport other nutrients from roots to the flowers and leaves.
De-compaction Treatments
Too compact soils can starve trees of necessary oxygen, microorganisms' activity, and nutrients to survive. This instance is particularly common in urban environments where trees are placed in high-traffic areas like car parks or footpaths. Trees are considered natural recyclers, but urban trees don't have dead branches or leaf matter around the base, which are crucial parts of a tree's ecosystem.
How It Works:
We have an excavation tool called Air-Spade. This tool uses advanced air jets to clear and break up the soil around the tree's roots. At Arborcraft, we use Air-Spade to de-compact soils around the tree before scattering mulch around the roots. This process creates a more absorbent environment for strong, healthy roots, nutrients, and water uptake in trees of any size and age.
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