tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19308043877525056832024-03-13T10:17:29.673-07:00Trees That Please NurseryTrees That Please Nurseryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12351368886446616301noreply@blogger.comBlogger410125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-49265200607373043872021-02-08T13:34:00.004-08:002021-02-08T13:52:07.869-08:00How does nitrogen work in the soil, and where does it come from when we don't have a bag of fertilizer to supplement it?<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I've spoken many times on this subject at conferences and it was the main theme of my talk when I represented North America at the World's 1st Humus Experts Meeting in Vienna Austria back in 2013. Most of the Nitrogen used by the vast tropical rain forests, or the fastest growing biomass place on Earth, the Coastal Redwood Forests of California, comes from the production of protein by the Free-Living Nitrogen Fixing bacteria in soil and the massive biomass structure of the mycorrhizal fungi. The proteins as it breaks down in the soil into amino acids are the building blocks of life and the explanation of the Soil Food Web. However, in order for those amino acids to enter a plant and be part of the nitrogen budget of the plant they must have the assistance of the mycorrhizal fungi. It's much more efficient for a plant to uptake amino acids whose molecules include nitrogen needed to build tissues than to uptake just nitrogen minus the amino acid. The problem with depending on Nitrification as the source of Nitrogen is that it results in the production of Nitrates that have a negative charge and the soil itself also has a negative charge, thus repelling the Nitrates. This is why we lose our Nitrogen into the groundwater beneath the farm, which results in another problem. I've included a paper I created for you that helps to explain what happens to nitrogen in the soil.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2_scvvsiRpQ/YCGuz1tkJ3I/AAAAAAAAASs/BXdPEmTDLKEdzvhjfakjeSyJB5XMQZZWACLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/slide-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1920" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2_scvvsiRpQ/YCGuz1tkJ3I/AAAAAAAAASs/BXdPEmTDLKEdzvhjfakjeSyJB5XMQZZWACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h256/slide-003.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">As for the fungus you can see in the soil, or in a compost pile, or the floor of a forest. Both the fungus you can see, which are the saprophytic decomposers, and the ones you cannot see, the mycorrhizae, are so cool. The saprophytic fungus, the ones you can see, are the goats of the soil breaking down hard to eat stuff that the bacteria won't touch because the chemical bonds holding the stuff together are too tough for the bacteria to tackle. The bacteria are the cows of the soil that wait for their meal to be prepared for them by the fungus, who can break those bonds, and the bacteria then take it the rest of the way. The mycorrhizal fungus can dissolve the exoskeleton of a beetle, or a nematode, transferring the liquefied proteins to the host plant, contributing to the nitrogen budget of the plant. The hyphae tubes of the mycorrhizal fungus can also drill through solid rock turning the rock minerals into a liquid and once again giving that bounty to the host plant. This is exemplified when a crop soil lacks mycorrhizal fungus, the soil is loaded with phosphorus, calcium, zinc, etc., but the plant is still failing to get those elements out of the soil. That's when we need to add a mycorrhizal inoculant to the equation! Also, keep in mind that soil can be loaded with saprophytic fungus and test as a fungally dominated soil, but still lack mycorrhizal fungus, and the rock minerals are still not getting turned into a liquid and delivered to the crop. </span><b style="color: #222222;">Here's the equation of the energy and yield Cause and Effect relationship. </b></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0cNvpm6hGPQ/YCGukCOcKpI/AAAAAAAAASk/RU3WlMN5evoIZaYLaz65lOb0OG6bdJWugCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/C_Xoefef.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0cNvpm6hGPQ/YCGukCOcKpI/AAAAAAAAASk/RU3WlMN5evoIZaYLaz65lOb0OG6bdJWugCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/C_Xoefef.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1. The plant cannot produce biomass, nutrition, or yield without energy being produced in the mitochondria found in all the cells. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>2. The cellular energy of all plants and animals is called ATP, short for Adenosine triphosphate. </span><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span> </span><span>Note the phosphate part of that name?</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">3. Humans cannot have good health if we can't make enough ATP, and like the plant and the soil relationship, we need phosphate uptake to make that happen, and because of soil health decline in agriculture phosphorus is our limiting factor. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">4. Almost without exception all the farm soils have been manipulated by conventional agriculture to the point where our crops cannot uptake phosphorus in adequate amounts because the equation lacks the mycorrhizal cause and effect relationship. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">5. We add mycorrhizal fungus, the fungal hyphae dissolve the rock minerals of the site uptaking phosphorus and all the other minerals that got in the way, and the crop now gets what it needs. Therefore our food grown on those sites also has a greater Nutrient Density!</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Michael Martin Melendrez </span></div></div> Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-57467047858783636022020-11-02T11:56:00.003-08:002020-11-02T11:56:42.389-08:00Understanding Biochar<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Biochar is being promoted aggressively as the miracle product for fixing soil, but does it work and if so, how does it work? And as a carbon product, is it better than our TerraPro? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is my response to questions concerning Biochar. There have been many products and many attempts to change the function of the geology of soil including adding substances to the site using products like compost, zeolite, adding a clay slurry to desert sand, Oxidized Lignite (also known as humate or leonardite), and Biochar. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adding anything to a soil, attempting to change its structure, its bulk density, its water management, or its nutrient value all use either a <b>Mode of Action</b> or a <b>Mechanism of Action</b>. A Mode of Action is an anatomical change affecting living organisms, while a Mechanism of Action describes changes on a molecular level. For example, putting compost into the soil provides nutrition to the soil biota, helping to support and possibly grow more biota, providing a Mode of Action. Putting TerraPro onto a soil contributes subatomic particles and Functional Groups that provide a process of Quantum Physics that will change the arrangement of the soil particles and how those particles articulate with water and ions of nutrition, a Mechanism of Action. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OnaW3AuIHfY/X6BkM5E91GI/AAAAAAAAAQc/A83F1tK_d0cN7vcuBPhlHUEih_iemkTlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s841/CEC%2BChart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="479" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OnaW3AuIHfY/X6BkM5E91GI/AAAAAAAAAQc/A83F1tK_d0cN7vcuBPhlHUEih_iemkTlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/CEC%2BChart.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's take clay for example, where the company Desert Control </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.desertcontrol.com/liquidnanoclay&source=gmail&ust=1604431268855000&usg=AFQjCNFdva7o0mQ1px4xbYOkbrFAoBVxpA" href="https://www.desertcontrol.com/liquidnanoclay" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>desertcontrol.com/<wbr></wbr>liquidnanoclay</a>) </span><span style="font-size: medium;">is injecting a clay slurry into sand in an attempt to improve the sands ability to retain water. The company calls it a "nano clay" but I'm not sure that's an accurate description of the size of a clay particle that would qualify it as a nanotechnology. If the correct type of clay, it can help to attract and retain water in the soil, a Mechanism of Action caused by the CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity) of the clay, so if enough clay is added to change the bulk density of the sand, then the total CEC of the site can also be increased, therefore increasing the sites original texture to include clay, a Mode of Action benefit, plus the added benefit of increasing the electronegativity factor (the CEC) which is a Mechanism of Action. So adding huge amounts of clay to a sandy soil can provide both a Mode and a Mechanism of Action. For example, let's say that a site is dominated by sand and the CEC is 2, see the chart I've attached on the potential CEC of sand, silt, clay, compost, etc., and the CEC tells us how strong the negative charge is of the soil, or how much of anything with a positive charge it can grab and hold. Remember, Cation minerals have a positive charge so the higher the CEC the more positively charged ions of nutrients the soil can grab and hold. It works with water to, where one side of the water molecule has a positive charge, so the stronger the CEC of the soil the more water the soil can grab and hold. This explains why sand can't hold onto much, while clay can grab and hold more! By the way, Biochar is normally going to have a CEC value anywhere between 14 and 17 cmol/kg. Back to the math needed. Let's say we add clay to sand, so we have a mixture that is 50% sand with a CEC of 2 and 50% clay with a CEC of 25. In other words, we put 1 foot of clay on top of 1 foot of sand and blend them together! 2 plus 25 divided by 2 gives us the average CEC of the blend which gives the new blended soil a CEC of 13.5. One must ask, was this practical or economically feasible? The question must then be addressed, does the amendment contribute an </span><span style="font-size: large;">anatomical change by either providing food for the biota and vegetation or does it change the structure of the soil by using brute force capable of decreasing the bulk density of the farm soil, or does it contribute a substance that has powerful electronegative or electropositive forces because the molecules of the product are </span><span style="font-size: medium;">ionized and charged with Functional Groups, which provides molecular characteristics in the arena of Quantum Physics. My associate, Dr. Kevin Divine who's copied on this email can probably correct me on my gross oversimplification of this science, but I'm trying to make this useful information by keeping it a bit simple. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now let's consider Biochar as a soil amendment and look at its characteristics and cost. The question is, does it provide a Mode of Action or a Mechanism of Action or both, and if so, how? I've used Biochar in the past as an additive to potting soil, where I found its low bulk density was suitable for making potting soil lighter in weight and less likely to collapse and become anaerobic (without oxygen). Based on my experience with Biochar I'll take some liberties on describing it. For example, if you measure its cubic foot bulk density it will weigh about 20 pounds. Its CEC will run between 14 and 17, lower than clay and much lower than compost, so based on that characteristic I can safely say its contribution will not be a Mechanism of Action, therefore it must be in its Mode of Action where it can help to lower the bulk density of heavy dispersed clay soil. So let's do the math. The Imperial or U.S. Customary measurement for the bulk density of the clay is 106.3 pounds per cubic foot. Lets say that the PSI (pounds per square foot compaction) of a farm soil that's predominantly clay is at 300 psi and we know that microbes, oxygen, and roots don't like it above 150, so we want to lower it down by using a soil amendment that has a very low bulk density, in this case, Biochar. Here's the math. If the Biochar has a bulk density of 20 pounds and we add it to clay soil with a bulk density of 106 pounds by making a 50/50 blend of both, and mixing the Biochar into the native soil 1 foot deep, what do we get? 20 + 106 = 126 divided by 2 gives us the average of the new bulk density which is 63 pounds a drop of 50%. If we assumed this drop in bulk density could be reflected in a drop in the psi by the same percentage then the psi of 300 would become 150, a value now suitable for microbes, roots, oxygen and water to penetrate. Now lets look at the cost of Biochar to achieve this benefit. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Placing 1 foot of Biochar on a acre of land would have this math. 1 cubic foot of 20 pounds X's 43,560 sq. ft. = 871,200 pounds of Biochar needed per acre to have a anatomical change in the soils bulk density to lower its psi from 300 to 150, or lower the sites heavy clay bulk density from 106 to 63 pounds. According to Farm Energy the average price of Biochar in the United States is $1.29 per pound, making the cost to the farmer to buy this much Biochar a $1,123,848 dollars per acre.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In summary, the Mode of Action provided by Biochar may be effective at lowering the compaction of heavy soil or potting soil, but the cost of doing so would not be economically feasible </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Mechanism of Action provided by Biochar is limited as the CEC is less than the average clay soil, and comparable to many farm soils with a texture of clay loam, so adding Biochar will not contribute an added benefit in terms of helping to attract, hold or store ions of nutrients, water or oxygen. One of the claims about Biochar is that it provides a matrix of cavities where microbes can hide, however, this is a silly notion as microbes don't need to hide and in fact prefer to live in close proximity to the growing roots of plants that are leaking exudates of amino acids, fatty acids, and sugars, which the biota need to grow more biota. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What's better than Biochar? The <b>Carbon Matrix of TerraPro</b>, which provides both a Mode of Action and a Mechanism of Action benefit. We've seen as little as 450 pounds per acre improve the moisture retention of farm soils in arid West Texas, 1000 pounds per mile of vineyard row decrease water irrigation demand by 400 % while increasing yield by over 55%. At 2000 pounds per acre we've measured a drop in the psi of hard clay soils in pistachio orchards from 300 down to 75 going the full length of the penetrometer rod. This change took place in one season. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Feedback is encouraged. Thank You</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Michael Melendrez</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">CEO, Soil Secrets LLC</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">1850 E. Main St. Suite A2</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Los Lunas, NM 87031</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Office: 505 866-7645</span></div></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-14495960506329210652020-08-08T10:27:00.004-07:002020-08-08T10:27:32.089-07:00All About the Shantung Maple! <span face="" style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Shantung Maple (<b><i>Acer truncatum</i></b>) is also known as the Purple Blow Maple due to the color of its newly emerging leaves which are red-purple (see photo below). These young expanding red-purple leaves change to green as they mature. Leaves are small, about the size of Japanese Red Maple leaves, perhaps 3’-4’ wide at maturity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><div><span face="" style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: times new roman, serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b7RO51Z5Nuk/T6BksIHQEwI/AAAAAAAAAQk/zDEU6AObkro/s1600/Purple+Blow+Maple+Leaves.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b7RO51Z5Nuk/T6BksIHQEwI/AAAAAAAAAQk/zDEU6AObkro/s320/Purple+Blow+Maple+Leaves.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="" style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Shantung Maple grows 1′-2′ annually reaching 25″ tall and wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is our tree for all planting situations. This Maple does well in heavy clay, sandy soils, full sun, or part shade. It can be planted in a lawn or next to a hot asphalt street (see photo below). It seemingly is a happy tree enjoying life wherever it is placed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One place we would not recommend planting this tree is in a rockscape which is just too hot and inhospitable to support this beautiful tree.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="" style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RXk5yLC3TlQ/T6Bk4wk_CJI/AAAAAAAAAQs/FOGaRd68R1k/s1600/Shantung+Maple+Structure.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RXk5yLC3TlQ/T6Bk4wk_CJI/AAAAAAAAAQs/FOGaRd68R1k/s320/Shantung+Maple+Structure.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <span face="" style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A smaller tree, the Shantung Maple can be planted closer to structures. Its fall color is a brilliant golden yellow. The Shantung Maple produces a winged fruit called a samara (see photo below). Kids call these helicopter seeds because when thrown into the air they fall spinning to the ground like helicopter blades. The Shantung Maple is best grown with low to regular water and is hardy to USDA Zone 4.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2uKigCXjBT4/T6BlDQZyi5I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/Ydi2k1f6EdE/s1600/Shantung+Samaras.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2uKigCXjBT4/T6BlDQZyi5I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/Ydi2k1f6EdE/s320/Shantung+Samaras.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P-eScSkzquE/T6BmL7wQpQI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/9-PSgR3lUYI/s1600/Inside+Shantung+Canopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P-eScSkzquE/T6BmL7wQpQI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/9-PSgR3lUYI/s320/Inside+Shantung+Canopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> The Shantung Maple has a rich green canopy that produces a nice dark cooling shade inviting you outdoors to enjoy the fresh air and spend time in your yard (see photo below). The Shantung Maple would make a great addition to your landscape. Come by the nursery to see our selection of Shantung Maples, all grown from seed collected locally from specimen trees.</span></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-40063030677876107892020-08-02T13:00:00.004-07:002020-08-02T13:00:37.873-07:00Autumn Sage<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Autumn Sage (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Salvia greggii</i></b>) is also commonly known as Cherry Sage owing to its flower color. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YrFjZsqLsFQ/T6GNgFmuyxI/AAAAAAAAARI/XqLeoCemYv8/s1600/Cherry+Sage+Flowers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YrFjZsqLsFQ/T6GNgFmuyxI/AAAAAAAAARI/XqLeoCemYv8/s320/Cherry+Sage+Flowers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Autumn Sage is native to the Chihuahuan desert. It is a small, evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub reaching 2’-3’ tall and wide. It blooms repeatedly through summer until frost making it a great addition to the garden or xeric landscape. It has one inch red to pink flowers that are found on spikes up to 10 inches long and are attractive to hummingbirds (see photo below). The red and pink flowered varieties are the most common but Autumn Sage can also be found in white, yellow, and orange flowered types.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QPnxyrRFZQE/T6GNmP69r9I/AAAAAAAAARQ/h7tZUfzX64E/s1600/Cherry+Sage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QPnxyrRFZQE/T6GNmP69r9I/AAAAAAAAARQ/h7tZUfzX64E/s320/Cherry+Sage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Autumn Sage is very heat tolerant and best grown in full sun on well-drained soils. It is a low water use plant once established but flowers more regularly with extra water. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Care consists of late winter pruning to remove dead wood and dead tips to encourage lush regrowth (see photo below). Autumn Sage is hardy to USDA zone 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M66mSrn5YPA/T6GNusivJyI/AAAAAAAAARY/SLXjFg_gv-g/s1600/Cherry+Sage+Shrub.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M66mSrn5YPA/T6GNusivJyI/AAAAAAAAARY/SLXjFg_gv-g/s320/Cherry+Sage+Shrub.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Autumn Sage makes a colorful addition to the landscape. Use in borders, along walkways, and in the xeriscape (see photo below). Its colorful flowers add interest to the landscape and bring in the hummingbirds and butterflies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qHL7fuIw3LY/T6GN1ohfJoI/AAAAAAAAARg/WBGt1pqrI_c/s320/Cherry+Sage+Borders.jpg" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-74441679406875070882020-08-02T12:57:00.005-07:002020-08-02T12:57:32.065-07:00Desert Willows<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Desert Willow (<strong><i><span style="color: #353535;">Chilopsis linearis</span></i></strong>) is a small flowering tree grown for its orchid like flowers and tolerance to hot arid landscapes. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zU_XEtdcTAI/T8mMKzx-QQI/AAAAAAAAAXE/Hopp6qMGy_E/s1600/Burgundy+Tree+Canopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zU_XEtdcTAI/T8mMKzx-QQI/AAAAAAAAAXE/Hopp6qMGy_E/s320/Burgundy+Tree+Canopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Desert Willow is a New Mexico native tree that normally grows with multi-trunks to about 15′-18’ tall and wide. If pruned into a single-trunk tree it can grow much taller. This trees common name, Desert Willow, is given due to its willow-like leaves (photo). The Desert Willow is not related to other willows like Globe or Weeping.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wFQsi0HGgxI/T8mMQUfy50I/AAAAAAAAAXM/0zUw02hwZBo/s1600/Desert+Willow+Leaves.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wFQsi0HGgxI/T8mMQUfy50I/AAAAAAAAAXM/0zUw02hwZBo/s320/Desert+Willow+Leaves.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Desert Willow is well suited for the xeric landscape or to cool down a west or south facing wall. In particularly hot areas, areas with low annual rainfall or where water is limiting the Desert Willow makes a great specimen tree because of its tolerance to these conditions. In hot, dry areas the Desert Willow is sometimes used as the sole landscaping tree (photo).</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W0E8HhyB7sc/T8mMV_hIrdI/AAAAAAAAAXU/gwN2QkUxI_s/s1600/Desert+Willow+Landscape.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W0E8HhyB7sc/T8mMV_hIrdI/AAAAAAAAAXU/gwN2QkUxI_s/s320/Desert+Willow+Landscape.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">It produces a light dappled shade due to its leaf and canopy structure that is ideal to cool down hot sun facing walls (photo).<o:p></o:p></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RlWyxMsIyjo/T8mMcsJzx9I/AAAAAAAAAXc/sf6Jo2I3oeA/s1600/Light+Airy+Shade+Canopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RlWyxMsIyjo/T8mMcsJzx9I/AAAAAAAAAXc/sf6Jo2I3oeA/s320/Light+Airy+Shade+Canopy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">It produces orchid like flowers that attract hummingbirds and blooms from summer until frost. Trees are available with flowers in various shades of pink, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">white flowers, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">or burgundy flowers.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q0kn4od45hg/T8mMk6XHh_I/AAAAAAAAAXk/nQ2e5DuvFFc/s1600/Desert+Willow+Flower+Pink.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q0kn4od45hg/T8mMk6XHh_I/AAAAAAAAAXk/nQ2e5DuvFFc/s320/Desert+Willow+Flower+Pink.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Desert Willows are best grown in well drained soils with low water. Given low to regular water, about once weekly during summer, Desert Willows flower more frequently. Desert Willows are hardy to about USDA Zone 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trees That Please Nursery has the Desert Willow available in 5 and 15 gallon containers. Contact the nursery for more information and pricing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br /></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-5768822042989717152020-08-02T12:55:00.005-07:002020-08-02T12:55:36.421-07:00Weed Identification: Silver-Leaf Nightshade<br /><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silver-Leaf Nightshade (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Solanum elaeagnifolium</i></b>) is a perennial plant usually growing 8” to 20” tall. It is easily recognized by its silver green wavy leaves and stem color,<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BZ2OUUILWuI/UESz3fP_MiI/AAAAAAAAA0k/ic68YBLzI5E/s1600/Nightshade+Flowers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BZ2OUUILWuI/UESz3fP_MiI/AAAAAAAAA0k/ic68YBLzI5E/s320/Nightshade+Flowers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">often thorny stems,<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mSCT4dRwP_I/UES0XU4g_YI/AAAAAAAAA1E/cC0spWv5tiI/s1600/Thorny+Nightshade+Plant.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mSCT4dRwP_I/UES0XU4g_YI/AAAAAAAAA1E/cC0spWv5tiI/s320/Thorny+Nightshade+Plant.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and violet colored, star shaped flowers with protruding yellow stamens.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jlp_tsTR4PU/UES0Cm8t6aI/AAAAAAAAA00/oXQeKknJY5w/s1600/Nightshade+Flower.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jlp_tsTR4PU/UES0Cm8t6aI/AAAAAAAAA00/oXQeKknJY5w/s320/Nightshade+Flower.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other common names for Silver-Leaf Nightshade are Prairie Berry, Silver-Leaf Nettle, and Satan’s Bush. Silver-Leaf Nightshade flowers from late spring into fall and is native to the Southwestern United States and into Mexico. It is considered a noxious weed in many states. <span style="color: red;"><strong>Silver-Leaf Nightshade is poisonous and toxic to livestock.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silver-Leaf Nightshade propagates from both rhizomes and seed found in berries.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wkLxLX9WYGg/UESz9uJR-QI/AAAAAAAAA0s/i1yr3aWf3tk/s1600/Nightshade+Seed+Pods.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wkLxLX9WYGg/UESz9uJR-QI/AAAAAAAAA0s/i1yr3aWf3tk/s320/Nightshade+Seed+Pods.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Green striped berries turn yellow or orange at maturity and then dry to brown.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hkbqfc6DrLQ/UES0mJ0TyAI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/Zhn25n8Nshg/s1600/Nightshade+berries.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hkbqfc6DrLQ/UES0mJ0TyAI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/Zhn25n8Nshg/s320/Nightshade+berries.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silver-Leaf Nightshade has an extensive root system</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G0p7QEtSc1o/UES0vN3YHhI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/AJBVrqWjSV8/s1600/Silver+Leaf+Nightshade+Roots.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G0p7QEtSc1o/UES0vN3YHhI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/AJBVrqWjSV8/s320/Silver+Leaf+Nightshade+Roots.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and can form colonies, which makes it difficult to eradicate.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bC5OD6ujh_U/UES1fkWUj2I/AAAAAAAAA18/vAxSYmeaPhk/s1600/Silver+Green+Nightshade.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bC5OD6ujh_U/UES1fkWUj2I/AAAAAAAAA18/vAxSYmeaPhk/s320/Silver+Green+Nightshade.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you have time and patience, Silver-Leaf Nightshade can be eradicated simply by digging it out, either by hand or shovel. Silver-Leaf Nightshade has no spines on its roots so can be hand (glove) pulled. Follow and expose the stem down to below soil level, where it turns white.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qN8oTtSX_Q8/UES04G9OwFI/AAAAAAAAA1g/XbtYVi0u-Ag/s1600/Expose+Thornless+Root.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qN8oTtSX_Q8/UES04G9OwFI/AAAAAAAAA1g/XbtYVi0u-Ag/s320/Expose+Thornless+Root.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grasp firmly,<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W7y0kwxk4EA/UES08uIiC3I/AAAAAAAAA1o/2OMbFlaDhsY/s1600/Pull+Nightshade+from+thornless+base.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W7y0kwxk4EA/UES08uIiC3I/AAAAAAAAA1o/2OMbFlaDhsY/s320/Pull+Nightshade+from+thornless+base.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and pull out the deep root.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HxqJsaDWb-k/UES1DXRHf9I/AAAAAAAAA1w/txg423JrSCU/s1600/Deep+Roots.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HxqJsaDWb-k/UES1DXRHf9I/AAAAAAAAA1w/txg423JrSCU/s320/Deep+Roots.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silver-Leaf Nightshade has a deep extensive root system, so digging it out will take multiple diggings as it regrows from broken rhizomes. Eventually the root system will become exhausted from multiple attempts to regrow and the plant will die. This method though tedious and time consuming uses no chemicals. The key to success with digging it out is to get it immediately after leaves emerge above ground so that plant cannot get new energy from photosynthesis.</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contact Trees That Please Nursery for more information.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-43988800038817064692020-08-02T12:53:00.003-07:002020-08-02T13:17:59.749-07:00Wildflower Seeds Worth Collecting: Desert Marigolds <br /><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Desert Marigold grows abundantly in dry sandy or gravelly soils, high heat and full sun, with only the moisture that Mother Nature provides.</span><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DBl687TdVag/UGpbcVxEoJI/AAAAAAAABEk/sWJNp13DM7U/s1600/Hot+&+Dry+Loving.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DBl687TdVag/UGpbcVxEoJI/AAAAAAAABEk/sWJNp13DM7U/s320/Hot+&+Dry+Loving.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Desert Marigold is a small plant about 8" – 12” tall and 12” – 24” in width.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jp9HOIiGl9Q/UGpbh0tUQlI/AAAAAAAABEs/FtYDzoxKySs/s1600/Desert+Marigolds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jp9HOIiGl9Q/UGpbh0tUQlI/AAAAAAAABEs/FtYDzoxKySs/s320/Desert+Marigolds.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Its foliage, both stems and leaves, are a hairy or woolly silver gray.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BKGiGFremOs/UGpbmaD1oQI/AAAAAAAABE0/k2xPUX0V65s/s1600/Foliage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BKGiGFremOs/UGpbmaD1oQI/AAAAAAAABE0/k2xPUX0V65s/s320/Foliage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Desert Marigold produces abundant, showy, yellow daisy like flowers from spring until frost. Flowers contain both ray (outer ring with yellow petals) and disc (inner section without petals) flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hQr6Dvueuik/UGpbqQlKy9I/AAAAAAAABFA/Uk29dPtHSvo/s1600/Flower.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hQr6Dvueuik/UGpbqQlKy9I/AAAAAAAABFA/Uk29dPtHSvo/s320/Flower.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">After flower petals whither and the seed heads begin to dry, seeds can be harvested. Seeds mature from late summer through fall. Seeds are maturing now (October) and can be collected. Sow seeds immediately into your xeric landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HwonskPl4C0/UGpbujccAvI/AAAAAAAABFI/20iVTs1srxc/s1600/Immature+Seeds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HwonskPl4C0/UGpbujccAvI/AAAAAAAABFI/20iVTs1srxc/s320/Immature+Seeds.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Desert Marigold makes a great addition to your xeric landscape or cactus garden due to its minimal water needs. The Desert Marigold is best grown in full sun, on dry mesas, sandy or gravelly soils, with low to no irrigation water. The Desert Marigold is hardy to at least USDA zone 6.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SmwMjAcmjUM/UGpb2usJgwI/AAAAAAAABFQ/VQVrYhKBZoM/s1600/Plant.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SmwMjAcmjUM/UGpb2usJgwI/AAAAAAAABFQ/VQVrYhKBZoM/s320/Plant.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Contact Trees That Please Nursery for more information.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-22916760993931882152020-08-02T12:44:00.004-07:002020-08-02T12:44:43.705-07:00WEED IDENTIFICATION: SAND BUR<br /><div><div class="Default" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sand Bur (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cenchrus longispinus</i></b>) is native to North America. It has other names like </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">sand spur,<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">long-spined sand bur, hedgehog grass, and bur grass</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Sand Bur is an annual grass usually growing with a prostrate growth form. It is similar in appearance to other grasses prior to seed formation. Individual plants may be 3’ in diameter, sometimes larger. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ds8u6__dbJ0/UFYlXM1np6I/AAAAAAAAA88/cbBE73jMRmo/s1600/Prostrate+growth+habit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ds8u6__dbJ0/UFYlXM1np6I/AAAAAAAAA88/cbBE73jMRmo/s320/Prostrate+growth+habit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sand Bur is a common weed of sandy soils but also grows well elsewhere. Sand Bur will often root at stem nodes that are touching the ground. The root system of Sand Bur is shallow and fibrous making them easily pulled (when immature).<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4KkKWnGlDKA/UFYlc7ybHTI/AAAAAAAAA9E/-mdA9G7Vr1c/s1600/Sand+Bur+Roots.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4KkKWnGlDKA/UFYlc7ybHTI/AAAAAAAAA9E/-mdA9G7Vr1c/s320/Sand+Bur+Roots.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sand Bur produces a flowering spike. As seeds begin to form Sand Bur is easily recognized by its numerous sharp or burred seeds or long spines.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fThSParPSOs/UFYllkKkE_I/AAAAAAAAA9Q/jY2qsmH3UFA/s1600/Sand+Burs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fThSParPSOs/UFYllkKkE_I/AAAAAAAAA9Q/jY2qsmH3UFA/s320/Sand+Burs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the burred seeds mature they are easily separated from the mother plant and their sharp spines stick to virtually anything. Sand Bur can disseminate its seeds long distances because its sharp spines will hitch a ride on skin, animal hides, shoes, and clothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MOzFqN7q3uk/UFYlvjDCOPI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/HxzS0FKmjv0/s1600/Burs+Cling+to+socks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MOzFqN7q3uk/UFYlvjDCOPI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/HxzS0FKmjv0/s320/Burs+Cling+to+socks.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sand Bur can be removed without the need of chemicals. Simply pull up the young plants. It is essential to pull them when they first identified by their burred seed spikes. At this time the burred seeds are green and the spikes are softer and less likely to separate from the mother plant. Pull them at this time using gloves, a fork, or a shovel and you will be able to remove the plant along with all its seeds.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rly7fHHGevY/UFYl183YmyI/AAAAAAAAA9g/-PpxfgOLsuA/s1600/Forkem+Out.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rly7fHHGevY/UFYl183YmyI/AAAAAAAAA9g/-PpxfgOLsuA/s320/Forkem+Out.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Removing plants in this manner a couple times per season for a couple seasons and you will be able to rid your yard of this prickly pest.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contact Trees That Please Nursery for more information.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><br /></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-56856728439322534662020-08-02T12:40:00.003-07:002020-08-02T12:40:18.304-07:00Crepe Myrtles <span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">There are two commonly grown species of Crepe Myrtle, the Common Crepe Myrtle also spelled Crape Myrtle (</span><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Lagerstroemia indica</span></i></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">) and the Japanese Crepe Myrtle<b><i> (Lagerstroemia fauriei</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">). Crepe Myrtle is native to Asia, India, and Australia. Crepe Myrtles are small to large shrubs or small trees grown mostly for their showy summer flowers. Many varieties are typically multi-trunked unless pruned into single trunk. Some varieties also produce great fall color and have an exfoliating bark characteristic (similar to Sycamore trees) that provides winter interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The common name of this plant is <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Crepe</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Myrtle because the flowers have crinkly petals that resemble the crepe paper.<span style="mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lhm5zAdA1OU/T_8G6QhuDaI/AAAAAAAAAfI/KFLXrnZZyIw/s1600/Flower+Close-up+Crepe+Myrtle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lhm5zAdA1OU/T_8G6QhuDaI/AAAAAAAAAfI/KFLXrnZZyIw/s320/Flower+Close-up+Crepe+Myrtle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The smaller varieties are ideal for planting close to the house<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FeFLJB385aM/T_8HAwhc6pI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/3zEn2JyOSOM/s1600/Crepe+Myrtle+in+front+of+home.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FeFLJB385aM/T_8HAwhc6pI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/3zEn2JyOSOM/s320/Crepe+Myrtle+in+front+of+home.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">or near walls or in borders.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qv0cNgLmQN4/T_8HGV3RWeI/AAAAAAAAAfY/ysreZj7lkQA/s1600/Red+&+Purple+Crepe+Myrtles.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qv0cNgLmQN4/T_8HGV3RWeI/AAAAAAAAAfY/ysreZj7lkQA/s320/Red+&+Purple+Crepe+Myrtles.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Crepe Myrtles are available in a variety of colors including purple, </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ByWDOuKvBMg/T_-xUXoeN0I/AAAAAAAAAgI/6P5KFKcfB_U/s1600/Purple.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ByWDOuKvBMg/T_-xUXoeN0I/AAAAAAAAAgI/6P5KFKcfB_U/s320/Purple.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">white,<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LC-ukU7XknU/T_8HKnC5-gI/AAAAAAAAAfg/wDoAyvpgkII/s1600/White.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LC-ukU7XknU/T_8HKnC5-gI/AAAAAAAAAfg/wDoAyvpgkII/s320/White.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">pink,<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2dqlZBb0OO8/T_8HTsKVRrI/AAAAAAAAAfo/Ckmwt1HVvhA/s1600/Pink+Crepe+Myrtle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2dqlZBb0OO8/T_8HTsKVRrI/AAAAAAAAAfo/Ckmwt1HVvhA/s320/Pink+Crepe+Myrtle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">and red.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hJtLmdGQOsY/T_8HeKiltHI/AAAAAAAAAfw/uGsnP2icPOE/s1600/Red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hJtLmdGQOsY/T_8HeKiltHI/AAAAAAAAAfw/uGsnP2icPOE/s320/Red.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Crepe Myrtles are best grown in full sun and well drained soils with regular water.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VGM-3NSmGao/T_8Hjy75SiI/AAAAAAAAAf4/Xd2dRgwO8Is/s1600/Pinkish.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VGM-3NSmGao/T_8Hjy75SiI/AAAAAAAAAf4/Xd2dRgwO8Is/s320/Pinkish.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Flowering may be reduced if planted in areas with substantial shade. Crepe Myrtles (</span><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Lagerstroemia indica, Lagerstroemia fauriei</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">) are hardy to USDA zone 7 and 6 respectively and may show damage if the winter is unusually cold. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Crepe Myrtles are not poisonous, so they will not harm your pets.<span style="mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Contact Trees That Please Nursery for more information about varieties and pricing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-56379578822464908432020-08-02T12:34:00.000-07:002020-08-02T12:34:00.268-07:00New Success Story<div class="content" style="position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;">
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Trees That Please Nurseryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12351368886446616301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-5458087147116668152020-08-02T09:23:00.010-07:002020-08-02T12:16:10.389-07:00Shade Trees for Small Spaces <h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="background-color: #fdfaf0; color: #935943; font-family: "eb garamond", serif; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /></h3><div class="post-body-container" style="background-color: #fdfaf0;"><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-419820015349274393" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unless you have a lot of space, stay away from trees like Cottonwoods, Mulberry, Ash, or Willows. These need a minimum of 25’ – 30’ distance from your home, sidewalks, or block walls. Why? These trees have vigorous surface roots that can crack foundations, heave sidewalks, and knock over walls. Plus if their large branches overhang your home or office, they can cause considerable damage if they break and fall.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trees That Please Nursery propagates many shade trees ideally suited for home or business owners with limited space. These trees include those with deep root systems (tap roots) and / or those with smaller canopies. Some of the shade trees for small spaces that we propagate include:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/chisos-red-oak/9?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true">Texas and Chisos Red Oaks</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fast growth (1’-4’ per year)<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Canopy 35’ – 40’ tall, 20’ – 25’ wide, makes acorns, Chisos Red Oak slightly smaller<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tap root<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fall Color- Gorgeous Red- Maroon<o:p></o:p></span><br />Zone 5-9<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OochI14RKyI/UCPTwkO8vGI/AAAAAAAAAn8/vZrPgGFujqQ/s1600/Tx+Red+Oak.jpg" style="background: transparent; color: #c84848; display: inline-block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OochI14RKyI/UCPTwkO8vGI/AAAAAAAAAn8/vZrPgGFujqQ/w400-h300/Tx+Red+Oak.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/shangtung-maple/44?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true">Shantung Maple</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fast growth (1’-3’ per year)<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Canopy 25’ tall and wide<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deep roots<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fall Color- Yellow-Gold</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-419820015349274393" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><font face="">Zone 4-8<br /></font><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Klaij3GcWkg/UCPT4wqNnLI/AAAAAAAAAoE/YzGbvSVGrRg/s1600/Shantung+Maple.jpg" style="background: transparent; color: #c84848; display: inline-block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Klaij3GcWkg/UCPT4wqNnLI/AAAAAAAAAoE/YzGbvSVGrRg/w400-h300/Shantung+Maple.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/chinese-pistache/84?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true">Chinese Pistache</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fast growth (1’-3’ per year)<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Canopy 25’ – 30’ tall and wide<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tap root<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fall Color- Various shades of Red-Pink-Orange-Yellow</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-419820015349274393" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><font face="">Zone 6-9<br /></font><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BR_7H4Z7QII/UCPUAqpAuwI/AAAAAAAAAoM/RkDFrwabNtY/s1600/Chinese+Pistache.jpg" style="background: transparent; color: #c84848; display: inline-block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BR_7H4Z7QII/UCPUAqpAuwI/AAAAAAAAAoM/RkDFrwabNtY/w400-h300/Chinese+Pistache.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/chinquapin-oak/88?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true">Chinquapin Oak</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fast growth (1’-3’ per year, occasionally up to 8’ annually)<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Canopy 40’ – 45’ tall, 25’ – 30’ wide, edible acorns<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tap root<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fall Color- Yellow, some specimens turn Red-Orange</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-419820015349274393" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7;"><font face="">Zone 4-8<br /></font><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3vxh9eTsE-s/UCR_fJEW0pI/AAAAAAAAApo/-gHB_J_E9lE/s1600/Chinquapin+Oak+canopy.jpg" style="background: transparent; color: #c84848; display: inline-block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3vxh9eTsE-s/UCR_fJEW0pI/AAAAAAAAApo/-gHB_J_E9lE/w300-h400/Chinquapin+Oak+canopy.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: karla; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/little-leaf-walnut/299?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=6">Little Leaf Walnut</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.14px;"><font face="inherit">The Littleleaf Walnut is so named due to its small leaves compared to Arizona Walnut. This tree can reach 25′ tall wide and produces a small sweet nut. </font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="inherit">Canopy: 15-20 ft. tall and wide</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="inherit">Medium Growth </font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="inherit">Non invasive roots</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="inherit">Yellow fall color </font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="inherit">Zone 6-9 </font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ah88bZGEdAM/XybkKA0yKvI/AAAAAAAAANw/I0_CP4O3Ce4RouGzxiyJjILAYsAj-nk_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/s256384167972824020_p299_i5_w2136.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1360" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ah88bZGEdAM/XybkKA0yKvI/AAAAAAAAANw/I0_CP4O3Ce4RouGzxiyJjILAYsAj-nk_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/s256384167972824020_p299_i5_w2136.jpeg" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/desert-willow/41?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true">Desert Willow</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fast growth (1’-4’ per year), extremely heat & drought tolerant<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Canopy 18’- 25’ tall, 18’-25’ wide<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deep roots, multiple trunks, flowers (available in pink, burgundy, and white) all summer<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fall Color- Yellow</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-419820015349274393" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><font face="">Zone: 7-11<br /></font><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NKK1pbCUkSg/XybiYOS_CUI/AAAAAAAAANk/mByBym62AlQZZTiPS8YgPhhvtzZUR-TxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/bubba_desert_willow.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="307" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NKK1pbCUkSg/XybiYOS_CUI/AAAAAAAAANk/mByBym62AlQZZTiPS8YgPhhvtzZUR-TxQCLcBGAsYHQ/w410-h307/bubba_desert_willow.webp" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/grey-oak/144?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true">Gray Oak</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.14px;"><font face="inherit">Semi-Evergreen. Excellent drought tolerant native tree. Drought-tolerant; suitable for xeriscaping!</font></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-419820015349274393" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fast growth (1’-3’ per year),<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Canopy 35’ – 40’ tall and wide<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tap root, Evergreen, makes acorns<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fall Color- Leaves are evergreen</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-419820015349274393" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.7;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><font face="">Zone 6-10<br /></font><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1wCsDSi6CUU/UCPUg6I2lJI/AAAAAAAAAow/NFuWFbUrMbg/s1600/Gray+Oak.jpg" style="background: transparent; color: #c84848; display: inline-block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1wCsDSi6CUU/UCPUg6I2lJI/AAAAAAAAAow/NFuWFbUrMbg/w400-h300/Gray+Oak.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><font face=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Visit Trees That Please Nursery for more information. Our summer hours are daily Monday through </span>Saturday<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.</span></font><br /></div></div>Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-84321108742175095252020-07-25T19:03:00.001-07:002020-08-02T12:22:56.766-07:00What Is The Soil Secrets Protocol?<h3 style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/terrapro/2?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=10">TerraPro</a></u></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B9z7lkXbJZ8/XxzkK8SLGZI/AAAAAAAAAMc/lZOy1T4KrxEhbllgssInpkmZ6ROEn43BACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/s256384167972824020_p2_i1_w2249.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1900" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B9z7lkXbJZ8/XxzkK8SLGZI/AAAAAAAAAMc/lZOy1T4KrxEhbllgssInpkmZ6ROEn43BACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s256384167972824020_p2_i1_w2249.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal">TerraPro, the Carbon Matrix. Is a black granular
product that needs to be placed on the surface around the plant or
transplant. TerraPro is sold in small homeowner bags or by the ton and you
will need the whole ton to plant 2000 plants. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://shop.treesthatplease.org/product/endomaxima/327?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=10">EndoMaxima</a></u></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RxExXxhcyGk/XxzkT3s019I/AAAAAAAAAMw/J8l1twbdURozO4Yrl423K_vuJNwsRzANgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1365/EndoMaxima%25C2%25AE%252BData%252BSheet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RxExXxhcyGk/XxzkT3s019I/AAAAAAAAAMw/J8l1twbdURozO4Yrl423K_vuJNwsRzANgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/EndoMaxima%25C2%25AE%252BData%252BSheet.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal">EndoMaxima, is a mycorrhizal fungi that helps plants uptake
water and minerals from the soil. It also protects plant roots from
disease and from harmful parasitic nematodes. While the best time
to use EndoMaxima is while planting the seed before sowing, you can also dust
the product onto the roots of your transplants. I use a spice or saltshaker to
shake the dust onto the roots before planting. One pound should be enough
to do 2000 plants if you are generous with the product. <o:p></o:p></p>
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amino acids that the microbes need to grow more microbes. Apply one full
handful of the granular protein onto the surface, placing the protein around
the transplants. Protein also provides all the Nitrogen needed to
grow the crop, so do not apply other sources of Nitrogen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br />Amanda Melendrezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13544241851193420347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-81158132326889744402020-07-25T17:39:00.000-07:002020-08-02T12:24:12.007-07:00How To Care For A Newly Planted Tree Or Shrub<p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Optimum
Tree Growth </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">will
occur if you mulch the tree canopy zone or basin with organics or wood chips to
a depth of 4 to 6 inches, leaving a bare 4-inch to 6-inch area directly around
the trunk.</span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">(The <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">ideal </span></b>tree planting site is a mulched site, with a
radius of 20 feet which is the potential reach of a small tree roots during
the first growing season. Soak this zone once per week until the soil
is saturated.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><h4><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">A newly planted tree should be watered approximately once every 2-4 days by soaking the tree canopy drip zone using a </span>sprinkler<span style="font-weight: normal;">, or due to area or budget constraints by filling a water basin.</span></span></h4><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jRKLm9s5UzI/XxzOdBuYNqI/AAAAAAAAAHA/sk_S8KZhowojTvmxNNZ6JQqwQnjFfgDGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s310/download%2B%25282%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jRKLm9s5UzI/XxzOdBuYNqI/AAAAAAAAAHA/sk_S8KZhowojTvmxNNZ6JQqwQnjFfgDGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25282%2529.jpeg" /></a></div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If you
have any doubts, then check the soils moisture content. Push aside the mulch
and grab a handful of soil. If it is soaking wet, then decrease water. If
your soil is just moist to dry, then it is time to water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tNRQpd0aon0/XxzLDSGpQVI/AAAAAAAAAGo/K2kcZjMi7hckrdGclnSG2KnZfGKLl_xeACPcBGAYYCw/s500/How-to-Make-Tree-Planting-a-Kid-Friendly-Activity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tNRQpd0aon0/XxzLDSGpQVI/AAAAAAAAAGo/K2kcZjMi7hckrdGclnSG2KnZfGKLl_xeACPcBGAYYCw/s320/How-to-Make-Tree-Planting-a-Kid-Friendly-Activity.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><u>Winter
Watering</u></span></h3><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As trees
go dormant (deciduous trees lose leaves) decrease watering frequency from 7 to
14 to 21-day intervals. Water when able in the winter (i.e. when the ground is
not frozen). Young trees / shrubs must be watered during the winter to prevent
the root ball from drying out which may result in death of your tree. Winter
watering should be done approximately once every 3-4 weeks by soaking the tree
canopy drip zone using a sprinkler or by filling the watering basin. Make
sure the plant is not soaking in wet mud all winter long which can cause rot.
Moist soils not wet are the rule.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><u>Pruning</u></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nFFDiM1onpM/XxzOoFmW31I/AAAAAAAAAHE/xLEVyRjJNM0yT4YE70HsZ1EWnZ3LEReCACLcBGAsYHQ/s275/download%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nFFDiM1onpM/XxzOoFmW31I/AAAAAAAAAHE/xLEVyRjJNM0yT4YE70HsZ1EWnZ3LEReCACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" /></a></div><u><br /></u><p></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Resist the
urge to prune and shape during the first season unless there are dead or
misshapen branches. Leaving these branches on the plant helps to support growth
of new roots and shoots. Pruning can be done during dormancy after the first
growing season or anytime (season) thereafter. Winter pruning often increases
vigor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><u>Staking</u></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Trees
planted in high wind areas may require staking. In general, stake your tree
loosely on 2 or 3 sides. This allows trunk movement which helps build its
strength. Make sure the tree does not rub or bang against the staking!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It could be true if you were in a riparian area of Texas where Pecan grow naturally that the specific species of Ecto Mycorrhizae could be air born and therefore capable of inoculating a tree. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">However I’ve personally seen orchards in that region of Texas that did not have a mycorrhizal infection and suffered nutrient update inhibition. Once we inoculated the trees with </span><u style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">the proper species of mycorrhizal fungi</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> the trees rapidly begin to benefit from the infection. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In working with a company in Mexico that has the majority market share in agriculture for the distribution of fertilizers and biomimetic materials such as mycorrhizal products, we’ve seen the same thing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I recall a conversation with a pecan grower in Texas about 15 years ago while I was attending the Texas Organic Farming conference, where the grower noticed that trees across the road from his orchard growing in the nearby river flood plain did not show zinc nutrient inhibition. He was curious why his trees had this problem while the wild trees across the road did not. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I theorized that his trees lacked the mycorrhizal relationship so we treated his trees and solved the problem. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Therefore I don’t put much stock in the academic world when they challenge this concept as they simply don’t have the years of experience or access to the science that I’ve had. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The images below show pecan roots with the fruiting body of mycorrhizal fungi and the mycelium in soil showing up after the trees are treated that are now showing up in an orchard that we inoculated only months earlier. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Already the trees are showing improvement in nutrient uptake, no zinc deficiency in tissue tests and no outward symptoms of zinc uptake inhibition. In fields within a stones throw we are not seeing the same thing on the same farm. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">These images came from an organic pecan farm here in New Mexico taken a few weeks ago. You are welcome to share these, just give me credit for where they came from. </span></span><br />
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There's a huge interest in using CBD oil/extracts and infused products containing CBD as medicine. Soil Secrets with the cooperation of a professional medical cannabis grower did a grow out experiment with spent/used soil compared to brand new Fox Farm Forest Floor soil. We cleaned the used soil using our Soil Secrets trommel screen and the treated the used soil with molecular biology made by Soil Secrets. Most growers throw away soil after one use so wanted to see if the used soil could be made good and repurposed for a second or third use. The image provided is from the starvation group where no fertilizer input had been provided to either the SS treated spent soil or the brand new Fox Farm soil. Both groups were treated with a Mycorrhizal product and bacteria. The Fox Farm was treated with the mycorrhizal product called Great White used per label instructions. Great White also contains a bacteria blend. The SS spent soil was treated with the Soil Secrets mycorrhizal product called EndoMaxima and the Soil Secrets Microbial Consortium BIOpack for the bacteria. The image I'm providing clearly shows that the Soil Secrets repurposed soil grew larger and healthier appearing plants than the Fox Farm soil. The plants have been stepped up int o 15 gallon containers using the same soil treatments so our next step is to test and measure the yield from the plants and measure the THC and CBD concentrations produced from all the groups. Stay Tuned for those results.</div>
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Carbon Sequestration, how soil turns into top soil. I've shown you the foundation of our research into what the significant carbon based molecules of soil are and I've shown you how a ruined dispersed clay soil can be fix, healed, by inoculating it with a biomimetic soil ecology process developed by Soil Secrets that will capture carbon, change the color of the soil and change the structure of the soil, all in rapid sequence. In this post I'm showing you the roots of a young Shumard Red Oak that was cut down at the Morton Arboretum in Chicago. The wood found in tree roots is composed of cells that have cell walls made up of a sugar called Cellulose. Cellulose is a complex sugar made up of the same sugar that's found in our blood called Glucose, but in the case of Cellulose the Glucose is linked together to make a larger molecular substance that is structurally strong and able to be the structural backbone of wood. As you can see in these two images there's a lot of wood that has grown in the soil under this tree and the carbon making up the molecule of the cellulose will contribute to the soil building process as part of the soil carbon sequestration process.</div>
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Soil Carbon Sequestration is Building Top Soil. These two images were taken at our arboretum in Los Lunas, where 32 years ago the soil was a salty high pH clay with terrible structure. The images showing the cracking and light colored clay is the before Soil Secrets. Using the Biomimetic Soil Ecology protocol of Soil Secrets we've stimulated and instigated the process of top soil development which requires that carbon from the atmosphere is harvested by plants and turned into a molecular form in the soil that allows for long term storage. The image showing the darker soil with aggregates is the same spot the arboretum after three decades of Soil Secrets treatment.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">I grow trees at my Trees That Please Nursery in Los Lunas because I love trees, however my Life's work has been soil and what's needed to make it healthy, because without healthy soil we cannot grow a healthy tree, lawn, crop or ecosystem. In 1985 we purchased vacant land in Valencia County about 20 miles south of downtown Albuquerque, hoping to build a home we could raise our family in. My vision was a large yard, a secret garden trees, hiding places and a big lawn that my kids to roll in, climb the trees and find adventure. I soon discovered a major problem with the site in that the soil had been ruined by the decades of farming practices that had made the clay hard, full of sodium and salts and extremely alkaline. The surface would turn white during the winter revealing the White Death that would make it hard to succeed. A professor of soil science from New Mexico State University told me it was impossible to fix the site and that I should put a for sale sign on it and move away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">The following images are of the arboretum site as it is today which also has our Trees That Please production nursery on the grounds. As you can see the professor was wrong and the site is now a healthy sustainable ecosystem of carbon rich soils, with a collection of trees from all over the world. We succeeded because Soil Secrets has developed the molecular biology and products that can restore Nature's natural balance of what defines a healthy soil and our Arboretum and our nursery production system at Trees That Please proves this point. </span></div>
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Trees That Please Nurseryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12351368886446616301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-80333641526289529252018-03-23T12:48:00.000-07:002020-08-02T12:26:21.750-07:00The Arboretum Tomé History<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">The Arboretum </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">Tomé property was purchased in 1985 by Michael & Kari Melendrez as vacant land. Unknown to the Melendrez couple the soil was a high pH Saline Sodic Alkaline clay with the pH running as high as 9.3 and never below 8.5. In the winter the salts would come to the surface and turn the ground white. In horticulture terms this situation is called "White Death" as very few of the most hardy weeds can tolerate those conditions. Michael showed a soil analysis report of the site to a Professor of Soil Science at New Mexico State University who told him it was impossible to fix that kind of soil and to put a for sale sign on it. Instead Michael using his knowledge of chemistry, molecular biology, microbiology and a good deal of dumb luck began to experiment with methods of soil restoration. The clay on the site is about 12 feet deep and was hard as a rock, taking many days of digging with a concrete buster and pick axe to dig a single tree planting site. Many dozens of trees were planted in 1986 of which all died after one agonizing summer. Today however the site is a rich collection of trees of the world with the largest collection of Oaks of any landscape in New Mexico or the Southwest. Also growing on the site are 70 foot tall Redwoods, 50 foot tall Native New Mexican Oaks, Giant Timber Bamboo, Sugar Maples and a Naturalized forest Michael calls the Woodland Edge. If you ask Michael what the key ingredient was to fixing the toxic chemistry of the site, he will tell you it was electricity. That's right, electricity that is coming from the Carbon Matrix of our TerraPro product, an invention of Michael that is bio-identical to what Nature is doing in the healthiest soils on the planet. In 2011 Clarence Chavez, Acting Soil Scientists for New Mexico working for the USDA NRCS requested from Michael that a new soil carbon test be used to measure the concentration of carbon on the arboretum grounds. This type of carbon test can prove if a successful soil carbon sequestration process is taking place. If the carbon accumulation is significant and is not there because you added it in the form of compost, biochar, etc., but rather is there because the soil ecology process of Nature put it there, than we can make the claim that Soil Carbon Sequestration has taken place. A result of the Reactive Carbon testing performed by Clarence revealed the highest carbon levels measured in New Mexico, including many Organic Certified Farms that have been organic for many years. It also revealed that when soils are healthy and full of carbon they stay cooler in the heat of the summer as the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">Arboretum </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">Tomé soils were 16 F degrees cooler that other sites in the same county. Cooler soils stay moist in the summer than hot soils!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0061ff;"><b>Pre-Biotic - </b>A </span><span style="color: #0061ff;">substances that stimulates the growth or activity of microorganisms (e.g., bacteria and fungi) by creating or supporting a favorable environment. In this case the environment is soil and the area close to the plant roots called the </span><span style="color: #0061ff;">rhizosphere. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0061ff;">1. <b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/commercial-grade-terrapro/" target="_blank">TerraPro</a> - </b>Tested and Measured doing a molecular characterization down to a sub-atomic level, under a Commercial Proprietary Information Contract by Los Alamos National Labs with Sandia National Laboratories, <b> TerraPro</b> is a carbon rich Macro-Molecular Substance (huge molecules clustered together into Supramolecular groups). Supramolecular just means that the molecules are highly energized and they self assembled into larger structures where the molecules are not chemically bonded to each other. In nature the carbon that accumulates on the surface of plant roots, the result of a chemical reaction and carbon sequestration, are recalcitrant carbon structures that are macro huge and supramolecular. Recalcitrant means that this form of carbon will not decay at the hands of the soil microbes and will persist in the soil for a long time. Some people will call Humic Acids recalcitrant however Humic Acids have never been described down to a molecular level, so not much is known about them. TerraPro has been described using a molecular characteriztion study at the National Labs. It fortifies the soil using a Biomimetic molecular substances that </span><span style="color: #0061ff;">support the healthy function of soil structure, soil porosity, drainage, salinity control, sodium remediation, improved uptake of water, improved uptake of mineral elements into the plant, improved environment for soil microorganism. This products active ingredient is protected by the Intellectual Act as proprietary and is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0061ff; font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">2.<b> <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/protein-crumblies-2/" target="_blank">Protein Crumblies</a></b> - Provides a nutritional calorie of energy for the soil microbes to feed on by using protein. Protein molecules are built from amino acids, which are the the building blocks of all life and essential for stimulating and supporting the growth of beneficial soil biota. The Data Sheet for Protein Crumblies defines the exact caloric contribution from Amino Acids that the product provides to the Terrestrial Biosphere (soil, microbes and plants). The product also provides the Amino Acids needed to build the most common protein on earth, which is RuBisCo, a critical part of Calvin Cycle (the photosynthesis process) in plants. Without Calvin Cycle, nothing happens and we have no plants!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0061ff; font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">3.<b> <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/supraplex/" target="_blank">SUPRAPLEX</a> - </b>used by fertilizer company's as the base liquid to add other soluble nutrients. Also could be used by lawn care company's for the same use for foliar feeding. Made from TTP Supreme Compost by minimizing the compost down to a sub collodal particle size into a liquid solution. The mechanism for doing this is proprietary. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0061ff; font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">4. <b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/775/" target="_blank">Earth Nectar</a> </b>&<b> <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/earthambrosia/" target="_blank">Earth Ambrosia</a> - </b>companion items containing SUPRAPLEX, enzymes, Kelp and solublized oxidized lignite shale that provides a Humic Acid value. Keep in mind that the term Humic Acids does not describe a molecular substance that's ever been characterized or described. It's only a term that's used to describe a carbon substance measured using a very basic non molecular technique. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0061ff;"><b>Pro-Biotic</b> - In the case of Soil Secrets are specific microbes including </span><span style="color: #0061ff;"> live bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi or yeasts that are good for the health of the whole system. By specific we are saying we know exactly who the bacteria are and how many live cells the product contains of each species. The bacteria Pro-Biotic called BioPack is a Consortium product. These are the organisms that support and directly articulate with plants, providing something for the plants while the plants provide something back in exchange. This class of soil microbes are also involved in the anabolic construction of precursor chemicals such as enzymes, aromatic carbon rings, </span><span style="color: #0061ff;">glyco-proteins (Glomalin), etc. They are also the microbes that provide both a solutioning and solubilizing effect on the mineral elements of soil such as silica, sulfur, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium. These type of microbes are specialists and are not the same microbes that we call the Saprophytes, such as those microbes we find in compost involved with the catabolism (tearing down) of soil organic matter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0061ff;">1. <b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/766/" target="_blank">EndoMaxima</a></b> - Single species <span style="color: #252525;"><b>Rhizophagus irregularis</b></span> </span><span style="color: #0061ff;"> (formerly known as Glomus intraradices) mycorrhizal product containing the industries highest spore count AM product at 3200 viable spores per gram. We are also capaple of providing this product at a spore count of 6400 spores per gram, approprieate for growers using vacuum air planters so that 300,000 live spores per acre can be targeted for treatment on seed while planting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0061ff; font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">2. <b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/mycomaxima-professional/" target="_blank">MycoMaxima</a></b> - a multiple species mycorrhizal product including both AM species and Ecto species, useful for diverse landscaping projects including hardwoods and conifers plus species that use only AM (VAM) mycorrhizal relationships.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0061ff; font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">3. <b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/mycomaxima-professional/" target="_blank">MycoMaxima Professional</a> </b>- For Landscaping, this product contains a blend of MycoMaxima with TerraPro, plus a buffering base cation blend of calcium and magnesium. For placing the mycorrhizal spores directly into the planting hole, this product has a specific application chart for planting containerized plants and larger trees. </span></div>
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Trees That Please Nurseryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12351368886446616301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930804387752505683.post-58922417386517375472016-12-19T07:41:00.000-08:002020-08-02T12:26:37.448-07:00Fixing Soil using Carbon: Can Soil Carbon Sequestering be Encouraged and How Does This Change The Water Management Equation?<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">It's common knowledge that the idea of increasing the amount of soil organic matter is generally a good idea. Its an even better idea if you live in a place on the globe where soils never truly developed a defined zone of topsoil that one can see with the naked eye. Where I live in the arid Southwestern Chihuahuan Desert the only place we can truly see carbon rich topsoil is where lots of natural vegetation was able to grow over many hundreds of years, depositing organic debris and growing lots of roots that finally decay and contribute to this accumulation of decaying organic matter. An example of this might be along a creek or river where riparian vegetation is getting enough water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">It's also commonly accepted that soil organic matter (som) increases the soils potential for holding onto water, where its been said that for every 1 percent of increase in soil organic matter you can hold an additional 25,000 to 30,000 gallons of water per acre of soil. That's a bunch if you can increase the percentage by 3-4 or 5 percent. However lets be even more specific on how to calculate this out. For example, it is also commonly accepted in the world of soil science that the carbon fraction of the total soil organic matter is about 58 % and that the carbon part of the soil organic matter is what actually holds the water, capable of holding 10 times its weight So for every 100 thousand pounds of organic matter we have 58,000 pounds of the element carbon which can hold 580,000 pounds of water. A huge number! Water will weigh about 8.36 pounds per gallon if fresh water, less, so 580,000 pounds of water is equal to 69,378 gallons of H2O.</span><span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets</a> success in increasing the percent of organic matter and soil carbon sequestering. </b> I've attached a inset of a soil analysis so we can see the values concerning the increase in Percent Organic Matter on a trial site we've been watching for 12 years. At the start 12 years ago the site had a raw percent organic matter content of only .6%, slilght over 1/2 percent. The site is sand soil so the bulk density will be higher with the whole acre foot of soil weighing about 4.8 mllion pounds, therefore 4,800,000 X .006 = 28,000 pounds of indigenous soil organic matter. So before Priming with <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets</a> Biomimetic process, the raw carbon of the site 1 foot deep can hold 19,980 gallons of water. So if you look at the inset of the analysis done on 11/21/2016 you can see that the new percentage value has gone up to 5.8%, which is 278,400 total pounds of Soil Organic Matter. The carbon fraction will be at 161,472 pounds holding 1,614,720 pounds of water which is 193,148 gallons of water per acre foot. <b>That's 4.4 gallons of water in every cubic foot of soil. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">In conclusion, by using the "Applied Science" of the Biomimetic products invented by <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets LLC</a>, we have proven that we can accelerate the soil carbon sequestering process faster than the application of soil amendments such as compost, manure or biochar can contribute. The formation of topsoil defined by this Net Gain in Soil Carbon penetrates the earth 24 inches. See the attached photo of a spade of dark top soil that was extracted versus another picture showing the raw site before <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets</a>. The 24 inch deep carbon rich top soil at 5.8% Soil Organic Matter is a massive accumulation far exceeding what Nature could normally produce over the course of several centuries. The final evaluation we used to measure carbon accumulation was to measure the Net Gain in what we generically call Humic Acid, which are not really acids, but are carbon rich compounds that resist decay. These compounds also called Humic substances fall under the catagory of "Recalcitrant Carbon" which are not measured using the Soil Organic Matter test. In this case we had a net gain of 24,960</span><span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"> pounds of this type of carbon per acre one foot deep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I've been reading up on new ways to access changes in soil concerning the Soil's Biota (the microbes), who they are and what diversity there is. I've found a bunch of published writings on using phospholipid fatty acid (known as PLFA) as a method of measuring this factor. Microbial components are expressed as content of phospholipid fatty acid markers specific for each component. I've attached one article that used this method in measuring the microbial community structure on various sites including one treated with biochar. Since many of you continue to ask me about biochar this grabbed my attention. The study found that the site treated with biochar tested out pretty good, so I decided to look at this closer and when I did I found that the amount of biochar used per sq. ft. was 3.5 pounds, 152,460 pounds per acre. Holly Smolly, can you image using that much TerraPro, how fantastic the results would be? I've attached the paper so you can read it. I've also attached two images of a Vegetation Analysis using infrared done by our team members in California, Don De Boar and Bob Geyer, showing a clear benefit on almonds using TerraPro at a rate that's a tiny fraction of what biochar was used in the attached study, or the amount of compost that is used by many DOT agency's in doing highway re-vegetation</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> construction. We have many images using Color Infrared (CIR) Imagery on corn silage, almonds, and pistachio orchards, all showing the same benefit of keeping the plants producing photosynthesis longer into the heat of the day while also keeping the soil and vegetation cooler. We can only imagine what the changes and benefits are to using less water because of this, but we do have reports from some of our growers who have been able to reduce irrigation by large amounts such as 50% or more.</span></span></span></div>
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