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A healthy soil will be 50% air as the Soil Biology will create pockets of air. This will only feel hard if compacted. 

It is a climate emergency yet local and national governments are boasting about planting X thousands of trees. Whilst not...

My local council has just announced 34,000 trees to be planted in the next twelve months.

By excluding soil from this, half of living things, by weight on land, are excluded. To reinforce the foolishness of this...

In 2020 the UK reached approximately 50% of its 1990 levels. I have read this is leading the world. That was the easy part, every...

Half of the weight of a tree (when timber is dried) is carbon (approximately). In addition any pollution absorbed by the tree is...

Please find time to plant the seed bomb

The response to this has been heartening, it proves our deep lying love for trees. Whether this relates to where the human race...

If the lawn has a healthy Soil Biology supporting it, it will be naturally aerated and 50% air..

To very simply explain, it is what nature intended. Go for a walk in an established woodland, walk off the track and have a dig....

Nearly all root barriers on the market, are not sufficiently deep to stop roots. They only deflect roots, some of which will go...

As we have trees for a temperate climate and had a Mediterranean summer (high temperatures on the back of a 10 month drought,...

In the UK we have a temperate climate. We have trees suited to this, primarily with leaves not designed for hot or dry weather.

After a lifetime of being told and thinking that worms are an indicator of healthy soils, I was shocked to read new research out...

It has been incredibly dry since last autumn in the midlands and south of UK. Please water all the trees you can, ignore any rain...

Dry and hot weather is stressful for trees. As Arborists we pray for cold wet summers!