PALM DOCTOR, LLC
PEMBROKE PINES, FLORIDA

I do NOT make a ring of fertiliser granules around your palms' and trees' trunks; my caplets contain proprietary timed-release soil pHregulators and multi-minerals & essential vitamins.  They are always INSTALLED about three or four inches IN THE SOIL, and tap into the plants' feeder roots (not unlike an IV you might have been given at the hospital).  And I give it for the same reason; it provides a more direct conduit of essential minerals to your trees, shrubs, and ground cover plants' nutritional uptake system (the xylem & phloem of your plants' stems!)  Going back to that famous & all to familiar "ring of food" around your trees.  Nothing makes me angrier, than to see that ring!!  Sitting on top of the soil, as it does, it gets more and more "caked up" as weeks go by, and the salt concentration increases alarmingly, right above your trees' roots. Doesn't sound too bad? Think again!  That caked ring of what used to be fertiliser has now changed its composition (with the help of Florida's broiling sun PLUS your sprinkler system, which just wets the ground down to a few inches.)  As the daily temperature usually exceeds 90 F., the drying accelerates and you often find that the excessively built up salts in that "food ring" are now BURNING YOUR EXPENSIVE PLANTS ROOTS!  I avoid that problem by utilising subterranean nutritional methodology.  It's not perfect, but it's pretty darned close! I will not abandon your plants. Period!  I've kept them thriving (not always an easy task); I would appreciate your courtesy of a long-term relationship with them.  Your long-term business IS my financial health.  I am your landscape's professional dietitian.  I am due the same PROFESSIONAL respect that you give your cardiologist, your banker, your personal trainer, or your mate. If hiring me seems like it might be too big a hassle (and expense) for you, call the other ersatz "Palm Doctors," your grass cutter, pest control person, or your landscaper for that matter. They will take your money (and probably charge you less...for that clumping pile of caked and now toxic mineral salts.)  These are the same people that I never have seen at the yearly recertification exams for State of Florida licensure.