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Professional Gardening Services
Growing With Robby offers a full range of expert gardening and lawn care services, from tree pruning and turf management to garden design and soil testing. With a personalized approach and sustainable practices, we ensure your outdoor spaces remain healthy, beautiful, and thriving year-round.
Comprehensive Lawn Care and Turf Management
Expert Garden Design and Maintenance Solutions
Pruning Services (15ft and under)
Our tree and shrub pruning services focus on maintaining plant health, promoting proper growth, and enhancing the overall appearance of your landscape. By carefully trimming branches and removing dead or diseased parts, we help your trees and shrubs thrive while ensuring safety and beauty in your outdoor space.
Designing And Planting Gardens
Our garden design and planting services bring your vision to life by creating vibrant, well-balanced spaces tailored to your style and environment. Whether starting a new garden or enhancing an existing one, we carefully select plants that thrive in your specific conditions, ensuring lasting beauty and sustainability.
Invasive Plant Removal
Our invasive plant removal services focus on eliminating unwanted species that can harm your garden’s ecosystem and compete with native plants. By using environmentally responsible methods, we help restore balance to your landscape, allowing your desired plants to flourish without interference.
Turf Management
Our turf management services provide year-round care to keep your lawn healthy, dense, and vibrant. From proper fertilization and mowing to aeration and pest control, we use tailored techniques to promote strong root development and lasting turf vitality.
Pest and Disease Control
Our pest and disease control services use eco-friendly methods to protect your plants from harmful insects and diseases without compromising the environment. By addressing issues early and applying targeted solutions, we help ensure your garden remains healthy, vibrant, and pest-free throughout the year.
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GROWING WITH ROBBY
Soil Testing
We conduct soil tests by taking multiple core samples from each plot/field and
submitting them to a specialized lab that can test your water as well as perform the
newer saturated paste test. Most universities only offer the standard test known as a
Mehlich 3 test. Testing the soil can save you tons of money by knowing whether or not you need to add fertilizer or compost. More times than not, there is usually an excess of a
particular nutrient which can prevent plant uptake of other nutrients. (See figure 1)
This comes from applying fertilizers year after year without testing to see if those
fertilizers are needed. Other times a pH imbalance is the reason plants can’t take up nutrients so adding fertilizer will not only cost money, but can compound problems
when the plants can’t take up the added fertilizer anyways when the pH is off. (See
figure 2)
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Mulder's Chart
Figure 1.
The red arrows coming from a nutrient show which other nutrients it will
lock out if that nutrient is in excess in the soil. A common over applied nutrient is
Phosphorus. We can see here, if there is too much phosphorus, it will prevent the
plant from being able to access copper, calcium, potassium, iron, and zinc. The
green arrows indicate if there is the correct amount of the particular nutrient, which will help with the uptake of the nutrients it points to.
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Plant Availability
Figure 2.
This chart shows the plant availability, for most agricultural crops, of
mineral nutrients based on what pH the soil is. We can see here that the availability
of nutrients are at their highest between a pH 6 and 7. The availability of these
nutrients greatly decreases outside of this range so sometimes the answer to crop
health is just fixing the pH and not purchasing more fertilizer. There are certain
crops that prefer more acidic soil like blueberries, and some that prefer more
alkaline soil like asparagus and pole beans, but this is still a good chart to reference to understand how pH affects nutrient uptake.
We offer various types of soil testing including:
Standard Soil Test
This test will tell you what mineral nutrients you have in your
soil and the amount of each nutrient. It will also tell you the pH of the soil, cation exchange capacity which is the ability for your soil to hold on to nutrients during heavy rain or watering events, and organic matter %. This is helpful for determining if you need to add more organic matter, like compost to your soil. This will also tell you if you need to add more, or if you have too much of any particular nutrient to your soil for maximum plant health and production.
Saturated Paste Soil Test
A saturated paste test can tell you how much of the nutrients that are in your soil are plant available. A standard soil test shows you how much nutrients are in your soil but does not show you what is plant available. We can also do the saturated past test with the water you are going to use to water your crops to give a complete understanding of what is going on with your irrigated crops. I recommend doing both a standard and a paste test so we can see if a pH issue is preventing nutrient uptake or if an excess or deficiency of a particular nutrient could be causing poor nutrient uptake.
Percolation Testing
Percolation testing determines water infiltration rates which is how well your soil can take in water when it rains or irrigated. This can help in preventing water runoff and erosion of topsoil which will steal organic matter and the mineral nutrients from the soil. This is a very important test which can also be done in field while I am at the site. This will involve me digging a few holes of specific sizes, inserting a meter stick, and filling with water to see how long it takes for the water to drain.
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