The Healthy Tree and Shrub spray program

At Mosquito Man/Turf Guy, we have the knowledge and experience to know what works and what doesn’t. Foliar feeding insects are especially voracious and do a lot of damage quickly. Fortunately, our four-step insect and disease management program for trees and shrubs is very effective at controlling these pests:

• Aphids

• Boxelder Bug

• Gypsy Moth Caterpillar

• Holly Leaf Spot

• Lacewing Fly

• Pine Sawfly

• Tent Caterpillar

• Winter Moth

 

The efficacy of a foliar insect spray is about two to four weeks.

Our initial spray covers all of your ornamental trees and shrubs. With our standard four-step insect and disease management program, you can expect to see our techs every 4-6 weeks from springtime through late summer. Trees and shrubs that have been weakened from an infestation may need a boost from our Flora-Green fertilizing program.

Do your landscape trees and shrubs look sick? Contact us to find out how we can put them back on the road to health!

 

Perhaps you’ve got better things to do with your summer weekends than pulling weeds.

Mechanically removing weeds is an endless job because planting beds are porous by nature. Even with bark mulch, weed seeds from annual weeds and grasses will blow in throughout the season and work their way down in to find moist soil and take root. While mechanical weeding is sometimes necessary – especially in overgrown beds – a better approach to controlling weeds involves a control product application approach as well.

Do your landscape trees and shrubs look sick? Contact us to find out how we can put them back on the road to health!

 

Pre-emergent weed control.

If you really want to get a handle on stopping weeds, you control them before they grow. The majority of weeds in shrub beds that spring up every year are annuals – that is, they come from seed and die at first frost. We provide two applications of pre-emergent weed control between spring and early summer.

Post emergent weed control.

Occasionally there are tough weeds that are not managed through pre-emergent, or have germinated despite pre-emergent control measures. Our bed weed control program continues through September with post-emergent applications every few weeks, ensuring that the only thing growing in the shrub bed is what is supposed to be there!

Our goal is healthy, weed free planting beds for clients. Like lawn nutrients and shrub spraying, bed weed control is an add-on service provided to our existing lawn fertilizing clients as a way to provide consistent quality to their entire property.

 

Crape myrtle trees are very popular in landscapes.

They fill the bill of being a small, summer-flowering, deciduous tree. They are usually one of the last trees to put on leaves in the spring, but earlier than pecans. As summer approaches, it is not unusual for crape myrtles' lush green growth to turn black as they are covered in sooty mold. Sooty mold is the black, crusty material that encompasses the leaves during the growing season. It is very unattractive and a source of anxiety for many gardeners.

 

Shothole is a common bacterial disease on 'Otto Luyken', 'Zabal' and 'Schip' laurel plants.

The diseases's name is descriptive of the symptoms: it looks like someone shot the shrub with a shotgun! Wet leaves seem to make the disease worse, so make sure not to water your plants from overhead.