Plantra Treeshelters – A windbreak for your windbreak trees
By definition windbreaks and shelterbelts are planted in places where it’s hard to grow trees. After all, it’s called the Great Plains, not the Great Forest.
You plant a windbreak to block the wind – to shield your home, to create dead air for snow to drift away from roads, to minimize soil erosion, and to reduce stress on crops and livestock and increase yields.
But the question is: How to you reduce the stress on your seedlings so that they become the full-grown trees that reduce the stress on your property?
• Shield your deciduous tree and shrub seedlings from wind desiccation. Plantra Treeshelters reduce moisture stress so that instead of stopping growth to conserve moisture, seedlings grow more actively more of the time.
• Protect your seedlings from deer and other animal browse – all year long – until your windbreak is safely established.
• Facilitate weed control – Plantra treeshelters make it easy to locate seedlings to safely mow around them, and shield them from herbicide spray for fast, effective weed control.
Compared to other treeshelters used in windbreaks…
• Plantra Treeshelters cost much less, thanks to large volume sales and manufacturing in the USA
• Plantra Treeshelters provide superior performance – large diameter and peach color for reduce plant stress and optimal growth
• Plantra Treeshelters offer more options – C-style for shrubs (easy to remove and reuse!), O-style for fast installation, and Vented O-style for helping trees harden off for winter in northern climates
Plantra Weed Mats are a great solution for weed control, giving you 3 to 5 years of complete weed control plus conserving limited soil moisture.
Plantra products are available through many SWCD, SCD and NRD offices. Ask your district manager if they carry Plantra products. If they don’t let them know Plantra offers special conservation district pricing… if they are buying another treeshelter, they are paying too much!
