Soil management · Pest treatment · Disease protocols
Diagnostic tree health evaluations, soil management, pest treatment, and chronic disease protocols. Soil first, pests second. Led by Paul Biester, NJ Licensed Tree Expert #408. Less invasive. More in harmony.
Most tree problems are soil problems wearing a costume. Compacted soil, missing biology, poor drainage, and root-zone neglect open trees up to the pests and diseases they would otherwise resist.
Tree Awareness Plant Health Care starts with a tree health evaluation — not a sales call. We diagnose what’s actually happening before recommending treatment.
The protocol that follows is calibrated to the trees and soil on your property: targeted soil work, biological inputs, selective pruning, and disciplined annual reassessment.
PHC isn’t a spray cycle. It’s a diagnostic process that produces specific interventions matched to specific findings.
Site visit. We walk the trees, read the canopy, evaluate the soil at the surface, identify any visible pest or disease pressure. Written notes per tree. The diagnostic foundation for everything else.
Vertical mulching with humic acids, mycorrhizal inoculant, sea kelp, beneficial bacteria. Air-spading where compaction is severe. Die Hard Root Reviver applied spring and fall.
Targeted treatment for spotted lanternfly, bagworms, scale insects, mites, Japanese beetles, borers. Timing windows respected (SLF late June through July; bagworms mid-May through mid-June).
Chronic disease management: Bacterial Leaf Scorch (Xylella fastidiosa), Anthracnose, Phytophthora root rot. Multi-year protocols with annual reassessment.
Plant Health Care is a long-term relationship. The first visit is the diagnostic foundation.
Walk every tree. Read canopy, soil, pest pressure.
Each pest, soil intervention, timing window named on paper.
Vertical mulching, root reviver, selective pruning. Done in the right windows.
Only when indicated. Right timing for the species.
Photographs, canopy density, year-over-year vigor. Plan adjusts to what trees show us.
Real properties on real PHC plans. Diagnosis, intervention, follow-through.
Bacterial Leaf Scorch on a Glassboro client’s heritage oak. The protocol that’s holding the line.
Glassboro, NJ · Tree Awareness
BLS (Xylella fastidiosa) is permanent — there’s no cure. The question shifts from cure to time: how many years can the protocol hold the canopy?
Selective ANSI A300 pruning, vertical mulching with biological inputs, Die Hard Root Reviver spring and fall, annual reassessment with photographs and canopy density measurement.
This Glassboro client’s oak is on the protocol. Holding ground.
See the protocol →Plant Health Care has a lot of bad practices in the industry. We don’t participate in them.
Plant Health Care visits across 88 municipalities in Gloucester, Camden, Salem, and Cumberland counties.
Plant Health Care (PHC) is the proactive management of tree health — diagnosing stressors, supporting the root zone, treating pests when warranted, and managing chronic diseases. It’s the difference between calling a tree service when something is already wrong, and keeping trees healthy enough that less goes wrong in the first place.
Signs include: thinning canopy, dieback at branch tips, leaf discoloration outside seasonal change, visible pests, premature leaf drop, conks or fruiting bodies on the trunk, or a property history of construction disturbance / soil compaction. New homeowners with mature trees on the property benefit from a baseline evaluation.
A soil rehabilitation technique. We bore vertical holes into the root zone and backfill with an organic-matter blend of humic acids, beneficial bacteria, mycorrhizal inoculant, and sea kelp. The objective is restoring soil biology and physical structure that compacted urban soils have lost.
No. BLS is caused by Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium with no commercially available cure. The disease is permanent. The protocol extends safe canopy life by years through selective pruning, soil work, and annual reassessment — but the bacterium remains in the tree.
Late June through July in this region. Treatment timing is critical — that’s when systemic protection lasts the full 4 months covering the destructive nymph and adult stages. Earlier or later applications waste money.
Treatment is optimal mid-May through mid-June, when caterpillars are small and actively feeding. Late-season treatments don’t work — the bag protects the larvae once it’s formed.
Yes. Tree Awareness carries current general liability and workers’ compensation insurance. Pesticide applicator licensing also current. Certificates available on request.
Site visits and tree health evaluations are free. Treatment costs depend on tree count, size, and the specific protocol indicated. Most residential PHC programs run $400–$1,500 per visit; multi-tree estate programs are quoted as annual contracts.
BLS protocols, soil management, foundational concepts.
Site visit and evaluation are free. We’ll walk your trees and tell you what they need — or don’t.
