Upper Arlington, Ohio
Your trees, fed from a lab report — not a truck schedule. Two seasonal root-zone feedings a year, spec'd from your property's own soil test, with a winter walk-through that shows you what moved.
Text David for Details →Upper Arlington's canopy is old, and most of it stands in lawns that have been mowed, limed, irrigated, and compacted for seventy years. The soil under a lawn drifts — slowly, invisibly — away from what a tree actually needs. The canopy thins a little every summer, and nobody can point to why.
You can't fix what you haven't measured. So this program starts where an orchardist would start: pull the soil, send it to the lab, read the numbers. Then feed exactly what the report says your ground is short — at the root zone, where the tree is actually listening — twice a year, spring and fall.
No measurement, no application. That's the whole discipline.
The national lawn companies sell tree & shrub plans described as "tailored to your soil conditions." Ask to see the soil test. There isn't one — the truck applies the same blend to every property on the route, on the same calendar, whether your ground needs it or not.
Every application on your property traces to a number on your lab report. And it runs both ways: if your soil doesn't need something, you don't get sold it. The report is yours either way — it lives in your tree chart, next to the photos.
Some trees on a property are just trees. And then there's the one you planted when your daughter was born, or the Japanese maple that makes the whole front yard. For those, there's a deeper look.
A paired lab workup on one specific tree: the soil in its own root zone, and a leaf-tissue analysis from its canopy. The soil test says what's in the ground; the tissue test says what the tree is actually absorbing — and the difference between those two numbers is where the real answers live. Your tree gets its own line in the winter report, tracked year over year.
$150 per tree, per year
Name your priority trees at enrollment, or add one any season. This is the closest thing to bloodwork a tree can get.
The Soil & Nutrition Program is the foundation layer — measured feeding, on the record. The Tree Steward Program is the full standing relationship: it includes this program, plus quarterly visits, an annual written care plan, and first-in-line scheduling with me directly.
The Tree Steward Program — from $999/year →What if the lab says my soil is fine?
Then I tell you that, and the program runs at a lighter maintenance spec — or I tell you it's not worth running at all. The test decides, not the sales pitch. I'd rather lose a sale than feed a lawn something its trees can't use.
Will I see a difference next summer?
Honest answer: soil correction is slow — that's why the deliverable is the record, not a before-and-after photo. The winter report shows you the numbers moving in the lab work, year over year. Trees live on decade timelines; this program thinks the same way.
When does it start?
I'm enrolling now for the fall round — autumn is the best root season of the year, so a fall start means your first feeding lands when the tree can make the most of it. Spring enrollment works too; the calendar just flips.
Does this cover pests and disease?
No — this program is nutrition and record. Pest and disease work is the practice's treatment side, quoted separately when the evidence justifies it. The program's visits are how those problems get caught early, though.
Text me. I'll walk your yard, pull the soil, and the lab tells us both what's true. No pressure, no truck schedule.
Text David: (614) 312-2979 →Upper Arlington, Ohio · $449/year · Fall round enrolling now