How to Protect Trees & Plants from Rock Salt Damage

Talking Trees with Davey Tree · Jan 26, 2023 · 16m

Kevin Sproule from Davey's Edmonton, Alberta, office shares advice on how to protect your trees and plants from rock salt damage, as well as how to determine if your tree has experienced salt damage.

In this episode we cover:

How to keep plants safe from salt (0:45)

Keeping salt away from the base of trees (1:41)

Watering (2:38)

Determining if a tree has salt damage (3:15)

When to call an arborist (3:58)

Fertilizing (4:28)

Physical barriers (6:37)

Tough winters (7:37)

Trees that are more tolerant to salt damage (8:04)

Trees that are more susceptible to salt damage (9:01)

How Kevin started his…