Haines Tree and Spray

In order to manage tree and shrub pests in the most environmentally sound manner, Haines uses Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices. This means we take a holistic approach to plant care which includes proper pruning, soil conditioning (acid, neutral or alkaline) and fertilization as well as using the safest products for the results you want.

In doing this, Haines focuses on those plants that need treatment to maximize control and minimize the products we put into our environment. We treat the right plant, at the proper time, with the appropriate product for the best results. This requires extensive training in identification of plants (horticulture), insects (entomology) and diseases (plant pathology).

We've designed numerous programs around specific problems that affect our plants. These include: spruce aphids; mites; bloom blight; apple scab; coddling moth; willow blight, dogwood anthracnose; etc. For a more complete list see our spray planning chart.

Although we use many organic products in with our cover applications, we sometimes include non-organic products with these applications. Upon request we can use only organic. Our cover sprays, which are beneficial to most trees and shrubs, will frequently target specific problems on particular plants:

• Dormant Oil & Lime Sulfur: especially for fruit trees and deciduous ornamentals, this is an organic insect and disease control application done early in the year. This also combats formation of lichens and moss.
• Spring Application: for chewing and sucking insects, tip moths, and early disease control on fruit and ornamental trees, broad leaf shrubs as well as some conifers as temperature and moisture dictates. We use products which do not affect bees while flowers are in bloom.
• Summer Application: for fruit and ornamental trees, broad leaf shrubs and some coniferous trees and shrubs to control insects, mites, tip moths and diseases.
• Fall Application: for ornamental trees, broad leaf shrubs and coniferous trees and shrubs, rhodies and azaleas for mites, aphids and weevils.
• Delayed Fall: especially for fruit trees, an organic application done in mid to late fall as a “clean up” treatment after harvest.
• Winter Dormant Oil: another organic treatment done late in the year for over wintering insects, particularly scale, stem-mother aphids and mites.

For Spruce Tree Care information click here

For Cherry Bark Tortrix information click here

For Deep Root Fertilizing click here

For further information on specific tree and shrub problems, you can view our spray planning chart, or contact us at (360) 733-6680, (800) 321-7378 or email us.