If you have ever watched Shrub Doctor treat your plants, you will notice that he coats the leaves of the plant with a liquid drench or mist. Why is this? The leaves on your shrubs and trees are an amazing part of the plant. The leaves are like tiny sponges that blow in the breeze. The tiny cells that make up the leaf absorb nutrients from the air. They absorb these nutrients, and pump them downward, into the soil. These nutrients are used, both to feed the microbes in the root zone, or are stored for future needs. Another amazing fact is that leaves are much like the inner linings of our stomach. It takes only mere minutes for the absorbed nutrients to totally permeate every cell in the plant. By the time Shrub Doctor has reached the last plant in your landscape, the plants that were treated first have already absorbed his organic treatments. As children, one of the first things we learned about plants was that they give us oxygen, and take in carbon dioxide. Why do they need carbon diozide? Because the “carbon”, in carbon dioxide is the main food source for the bacteria and fungi in the soil. The plant actually feeds the microbes, and in turn, the microbes pull in the nutrients from the soil, and feed the plant. They both need each other to live. So the next time you hear someone tell you that carbon is bad, you’ll know that without carbon our world could not function.
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