When you know your property needs help from plant health care specialists, call Trees Hurt Too. The authors of COVID-19 legislation recognize Trees Hurt Too as an essential business, since trees are valuable assets to properties and pests must be controlled for people’s safety.
Arborist Ken Hewlett offers lawn care, ornamental tree care and pest control services based on intuition, knowledge and compassion for both trees and people. “We know the times are changing since the COVID-19 is here,” Ken said. “We’ve taken the appropriate measures to make sure our customers and employees are safe.”
Saving people’s money and trees’ lives, Trees Hurt Too provides nontraditional fertilization and weed control. “We work on the soil to make it healthy, so the lawn and trees become healthy,” Ken said. “It’s more expensive to chop a tree down because on top of the cost to remove the tree, the cost of utilities increases when the tree is gone.”
Ken takes pride in what he does and believes in passing on good information. In fact, he designed his website to be highly educational. “While working for another tree and lawn care company, I constantly noticed that trees were dying because of the chemicals people used on their lawns,” he said. “So, as a certified arborist, with more than 20 years of experience and a dream of my own, I decided to start my own tree and lawn care company.”
Trees Hurt Too uses organic and carbon-based products. “I don’t believe in tree trimming just for the sake of trimming. There’s a time, a proper time,” Ken said, adding that he spent the fall conducting borer treatments on trees that endured last summer’s storms. “Summer storms cause cracks in tree bark, which mean trees leak sap, and that sap attracts tiny, baby insects that love to chew and feast on the inner bark and wood of trees.”
This month, moisture management is the focus at Trees Hurt Too. “Regardless of how wet the winter and spring are, by July and August, water is gone because of evaporation and gravity. Watering more and more isn’t the answer to protecting roots. You need good soil to hold moisture, and proper carbon makes the plant more drought tolerant,” Ken explained. He and three licensed technicians can tend to compacted soils and unhealthy lawns, and then apply a biodegradable product that creates water for plants, so property owners don’t have to water more than normal.
While on a property, technicians look for other ways to help. When they find weeds in cracks of sidewalks, around houses and near decks, they spray with environmentally friendly products that won’t hurt trees when used properly. Ken empathized with trees while learning to inject their vascular system with medicine to take throughout the tree.
“I realized trees are living organisms, and they hurt like people do,” he said. “Some trees, when I walk on a property, if they could talk, they’d be screaming, ‘Get this truck off my feet!’ People park their heavy trucks on the root system of a tree, and it compacts the soil and damages the tree. Save your trees. Save your money.”
Ken consults with people planning to build on property with established ornamentals, like 200-year-old oaks. “We deal with urban forests when working with people’s landscapes,” he said. “Unfortunately, most people call me five to seven years after building, and it’s harder to bring sick, native trees back. It’s less costly to prevent than it is to treat after.”
Trees Hurt Too techs travel in a 25-mile radius around Mansfield to save trees, plants and lawns. Call Ken today. He’ll call you within 24 hours and make himself available to restore your plants’ health.
Trees Hurt Too, Inc.
Ken Hewlett, Owner
Mansfield, TX 76063
(972) 521-1552
[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/trees.hurt.too
www.treeshurttoo.com
Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-noon
Written by Melissa Rawlins
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