Testimonials

From: David
To: eartheart@tds.net
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006
Subject: Old Way Net Way

March 2002

Consulting with a tree doctor about our sick cypress tree-update.

Old Way

1. Our Cypress trees were still ailing (losing needles on one side) a year after an unresolved Old Way Net Way. Decided to try again. A tree doctor named Len Nelson from a company called Deblen Environment in Park Rapids, Minnesota vowed to help. He asked me to send photographs, needles, and sandwich bags filled with dirt from the tree's base.

2. After analyzing the materials, Nelson, whose company, Eartheart (http://www.eartheartplus.com/), markets a wide variety of all-natural garden products, diagnosed our trees' ailment. He planned a family vacation in our area and was able to makea house call on our cypresses and he applied an insect spray and plant food.

3. Three months later there are signs that the trees are healing.

Comments: Apparently most Italian cypress experts are in Italy so we were very fortunate to find Nelson.

Net Way

1. While awaiting the tree doctor's help, I looked to the net's myriad sites about trees. There were sites devoted to elms and chestnuts, but I couldn't find a site about cypresses.

2. Sites about trees were too general for our problem.

3. Tried numerous gardening sites had valuable infomation, but nothing to help our cypress trees.

Comments: There sometimes is no substitute for a professional.