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Soil Health - The Benefits of Air Spading
Nick St. Sauveur, district manager of Cortese Tree Experts, a Davey company, in Knoxville, TN, discusses the practice of air spading and how it can help improve soil quality and health.
In this episode we cover:
What is air spading? (:41)
Can a tree of any size be air spaded? (1:12)
Air spading and volcano mulching (2:40)
What does an air spade look like? (3:14)
How much soil comes out of air spading a big tree affected by soil compaction? (4:02)
Where do you look at a tree for compaction stress? (5:03)
Tool that tests soil compaction (6:22)
What does a property look like two years after air…
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