Mycorrhizae: A Recipe for Success
Fine wines and gourmet dinners are defined by their attention to detail.  But a chef can’t spend hours focusing on the single plate that sits before you.  What’s the secret to reproducing exquisite results time and again?  A recipe, of course.  Want to refine your recipe for creating the best trees?  Don your chef’s hat and look to your “kitchen” (or at least your storeroom), because the answer may be closer than you think.  Reach for your secret ingredient: mycorrhizae.

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Putting Trees on Cruise Control
When you get in your car, you start it up, press the pedal down, and get up to speed. But once you get going, it’s easy to keep the car up to speed. Just a little constant pressure on the pedal – a little constant infusion of energy- is all it takes. But if you have a big obstacle in your way (like tough terrain or a hill), the car takes more energy to maintain speed. If you let your car slow down, it requires extra energy to get back to that constant speed. Trees may not take you places, but their energy brings you to them. A tree needs an extra surge of power at the start of its journey, but once it is maintaining a steady growth rate, all you need to do is provide a little steady care.

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Make Winter “Bear”-able: Root Health Is Key to a Plant’s Survival
Have you ever attended a polar bear club swim event, where bathing-suit-clad participants jump into freezing cold water? Although humans endure it as a temporary shock, real polar bears brave cold water with few problems. Aside from physiology, bears manage thanks to their thick coats and rolls of fat store during the year. Somewhat like the polar bear, a plant’s key to winter survival is by building itself up through year-round preparation. A healthy plant is built from a healthy foundation; in a plant’s case, its roots.

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With a Little Help From My Friends: Tree establishment success with mycorrhizae
The Beatles said it best: we all get by with a little help from our friends. That message crosses over from the human world to the plant world with mycorrhizae playing the role of the best friends to many trees and plants. But with all the additives and care that an arborist provides for a tree, why aren’t you considered a tree’s biggest ally? An arborist may facilitate this “friendship” between plant roots and mycorrhizae, but it is these naturally produced fungi that help a plant in all stages of its life cycle. Through establishment, growth and even adult maintenance, mycorrhizae are truly friends that a tree can count on.

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Take a “bio” lesson from this Maine Company
Chris Benn, one of the owners of North Yarmouth, ME's, Anderson Landscaping, knows that healthy plants lead to happy customers. Through an innovative mix of conventional planning and cutting-edge biological technology, Benn's suburban Portland business has found a method to reduce the amount of maintenance needed to keep plants healthy.

A Natural Partner: Using Biostimulants to Increase Your Yield
Do you ever wish there was a time-trusted-method for doubling your business, practically overnight? There is. And the costs will pay for themselves. You don't need any extra equipment or additional labor. And it's easy to integrate into your current growing system. Biostimulants are the answer. No, they're not a miracle cure-all meant to replace traditional chemical treatments. But don't dismiss them just because the name "bio" appears in the term. "Natural" doesn't mean "inefficient." Biostimulants are simply an environmentally friendly addition to your program that increase growth and health in your turf crop.

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Mighty Mycorrhizae
Arborists leave behind perhaps the most visible example of their work- trees. Whether they have been charged with simply caring for existing specimens or asked to plant and grow new trees, everyone who comes in contact with their work experiences their success, or failure, and is quick to make judgments on whether or not they’re “doing a good job.” Improve the odds of growing and maintaining healthy trees means not only selecting the appropriate plants to begin with, but ensuring that the trees themselves are rooted in the best foundation possible. That’s where tiny allies can make a huge difference. Those tiny allies are mycorrhizal fungi.

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