This survival kit includes 60" tree protector, 36" x36" weed mat, and 2-year Nutra Pro Control Release Fertilizer. You must provide your own 60" support stake that will last for 5+ years. Recommended materials include treated pine or white oak.
Tree Pro Tree Protectors are the first protector we began manufacturing 35+ years ago. They are a Flat Sheet (Slit Tube Design) that is formed into a Tree Grow Tube with the releasable zip ties we provide. If you are looking for a tree grow tube that allows for post planting maintenance, this is the easiest one in the industry. It's the tried-and-true classic that still gets the job done. Get the peace of mind that comes with proven protection for your prized trees.
Before Choosing a mat ask- Does the weed mat kill weeds and retain moisture. Unlike other mats Weed Pro does both. Porous mats allow a very limited amount of water thru the soil. More importantly porous mats allow moisture to escape when it is needed most, during droughts. WEED PRO WEED MATS are a solid sheet and holds ground moisture for weeks longer than porous mats.
Weeds are everywhere: on lawns, in flower gardens, among the tomato plants, wherever you don't want them to be. Left uncontrolled, weeds can starve out young seedlings. They're more aggressive, more prolific and they grow faster.
Weeds absorb water and nutrients, robbing your trees of crucial life-sustaining elements just when they need them most. Weeds can even outgrow your plants, thereby depriving them of much-needed sunlight.
If you fertilize without first removing weeds, you are fertilizing the weeds instead.
By the same token, when fertilizer is broadcast around trees, there's no way to know how much of it reaches the trees' roots. Using Nutrapro solves this problem because it's placed in the hole alongside the tree's roots.
Nutrapro has been specially formulated for trees and shrubs (16-8-8). It comes in a plastic package with micro-pores that allow the fertilizer to be released into the soil at a controlled rate (as moisture transfers thru the pores). The contents (NPK) are dissolved over time by water vapor entering the package through these micro-pores.