Holbrook House Farm can help you maintain a healthy and attractive, landscape around your Cape Cod home or business.
Trimming and Pruning: This improves aesthetics, safety and health of the tree or shrub.
Tree Planting and Transplanting: With your direction, and John Holbrook's expertise we will help you realize your vision.
Spring and Fall Tree Maintenance: Horticultural Oil-Organic pest or insect control is important on Cape Cod, It is used primarily on fruit trees and shrubs.
Spring Pest Spray: Proven chemistry applied to trees and plants in a timely manner, insures optimum results.
Pine Tip Moth Spray: On Pitch Pine trees, The larva feed on new growth of cones and shoots, look for dead shoots, twig dieback and holes in cones. Two sprays are recommended.
Poison Ivy and Vine Spray: Take the itch out of summer! This should be applied in spring mid or late summer.
Knotweed Spray: With reddish purple shoot and heart shaped leaves. This perennial plant is quite invasive, and hearty. Two or more sprays are recommended.
Comfort Spray: Used to control mosquitoes, sand fleas and mites.
Winter and Gypsy Moth Spraying: This helps prevent defoliation of trees and shrubs. Using the safest chemistry available today. Once these pests eat the product they become dehydrated then die. Call us early to get on the list.
Midsummer Pest Mitigation: Spruce and Fur trees; check for red spider mites. Put white paper under branch, tap hard look for crawlers.
Horticultural Oil Spray: A non-pesticide is used to kill soft bodied insects on woody ornamentals and trees.
Fungicide Spray: Light fungal problems on plants shrubs, trees spruces. Once powdery mildew is identified, appearing as a dusting of flour or in some cases yellowing and drying the leaf. The course of action is remove all litter and a fungicide spray.
Fungal Ground & Folder Drench - Spring & Midsummer: Treatment for heavier fungal problems on Roses and Azaleas.
Pest and Tick Control: Applied spring and mid-summer. We offer two programs. Organic is generally used around dog and children’s play areas. Non-organic generally is used on the exterior edges of property.
Anti-Desiccant Spray: - Fall, late fall, and early winter. Recommended for plants in windy or cold areas.
Organic fertilization: Spring and Fall through ground injection; kelp and humate is applied to the root system to strengthen and encourage new growth improving the all-around health of your trees and plants.
Diseased Tree Treatments: Pest or Fungal; Using the latest Arbor jet trunk injection system, we can treat a variety of diseases. Pests: We look for holes in bark, also misshapen limbs, early leaf drop. Fungal applied in spring, after a rain and look for mushrooms under the tree. We will come out and take a look and prescribe a course of action.
Trunk Injection - White Oak Decline. Therapy- Applied in spring and fall. Treat a variety of diseases. We will come out and take a look and prescribe a course of action. Currently on Cape Cod, white oak decline has become widespread, One of the symptoms are defoliation from the top down. We need to start treatment upon it being seen (the day after you look up).
Three problems on plant and tree healthcare.
1. First problem; property owners are not aware and not looking up. We offer a free site evaluation.
2. Leaving the problem to fix itself equals not doing anything.
3. Praying for divine intervention - hasn't worked yet.
We offer free on site Cape Cod Landscape Plant Health evaluations.
Call us 508-362-3348 or E-mail johnholbrook1954@yahoo.com