Our new Organic Soil Solutions Program uses the highest quality of Compost Tea with a specific blend for your courses needs. Please see our Organic Soil Solutions Web site for more details. organicsoilsolutions.ca
Golf Course Services
Trees are an important factor - for the overall condition of your course: the variety and challenge of your design; its overall aesthetics and natural beauty. Trees also represent a significant investment in terms of dollars and the degree of commitment required to sustain their health and longevity. Shady Lane Expert Tree Care offers a larger variety of services to your course than any other tree care company can all year round. We would love the opportunity to walk your course and give our expert advise, saving you time and money in future years. Bellow is a list of services that can be provided by our staff to ensure your course is the very best it can be.
Creating a Vegetation Study with our newest hand held GPS devise to provide an inventory of trees for the entire course or target areas. Trees are tagged (with an I.D. number), sized, and their general health assessed with recommendations for future treatments.
Our new Organic Soil Solutions Program uses the highest quality of Compost Tea with a specific blend of food sources like molasses, kelp and soy. Our tea will add micro organisms and with our food sources to help feed and cycle your soil biology helping you cut down on your applications of fungicides, and fertilizers. Resulting in a greener, healthier course for you and your patrons.
Pruning to increase light and air penetration onto the greens and to maintain tree health and overall aesthetics. Pruning is also important for reasons of safety and liability.
Removing hazardous trees or trees in confined areas and stumping the remaining root system so that the site is ready for future use.
Cabling and Bracing to preserve and extend the life of trees at risk from structural weakness or damage from winds and storms.
Implementing our Plant Monitor Program to monitor insect and disease problems and recommend treatments to improve plant health. This program can include high focus areas such as the clubhouse, signature holes, specific tree species or the entire golf course. Or it can be a one-time spray application to treat such problems as gypsy moth or tent caterpillars. Our staff are trained and licensed according to government regulations to treat any insect and disease. But our expertise goes beyond that to treat these problems at their most vulnerable stage using the most environmentally aware products and methods.
Installing Lightning Protection Systems for trees that dictate the play of a hole or where historic or specimen tree are at risk from thunderstorms and lightning strikes.
Utilizing our GroGun technology to combat the harmful effects of soil compaction, for instance severe traffic areas such as heavily used cart paths. This process uses compressed air to fracture the soil and simultaneously add water and fertilizer to stimulate root growth.
Applying Mauget injections to control insect populations, or for nutrient deficiencies such as iron chlorosis. This is extremely effective for high traffic areas where other application methods are unsuitable.
We can also work on improving the amount of light onto those problem greens and tee boxes by using the latest technology. The SunSeeker™ software technology is based on a series of measurements of the green itself and the surrounding trees (trunks and major limbs), data is then programmed into the computer. This process calculates tree canopy density, blocking horizon and the exact location of the sun on that green on any day of the year.
Fast, convenient and accurate to within a fraction of a centimeter, SunSeeker™ removes the guesswork from tree pruning and ensures the right amount of sunlight and airflow that are critical to healthy trees and turf.
