With summer right around the corner,  it is time to start thinking about your summer projects.  While add-ons and a bathroom remodel might already be on your mind,  doing some essential landscape work could improve your trees health and your homes aesthetic.

Trimming your trees in the early spring is one of the best times to prune your trees before they start to regrow their leaves for the summer.

Below are five reasons why you should trim your trees.

1. To help your trees grow

Trimming or pruning the branches of your tree is a great way to promote growth.  By removing branches that are overgrown your tree will put the energy that it would have put into that branch into other parts of the tree.

Trimming makes it possible to shape your tree and control the growth.  When the proper pruning techniques are used, pruning can make the roots stronger as well; making your tree more robust and healthy.  

Trees can often have multiple leaders.  By trimming away the excess leaders and only leaving one, many trees can see a positive impact on their growth.  This is very important for evergreens where a single leader is desirable.

2. To help treat and prevent disease

Trimming your trees a great way to prevent disease or infestations from spreading.  Just like people, trees can contract diseases that affect a certain part of their whole organism.  If you see a branch that is dying or if a brand is infected by bugs, trimming it off is a great way to ensure that the problem doesn't spread.

Trimming off dead or dying branches can also help prevent diseases and infestations from happening in the first place.  Dead branches can attract insects and parasites that can spread to an entire tree.  By maintaining your trees, you reduce the likelihood of this happening.   

3. To improve your homes aesthetic

Adding trees to your home is a great way to improve the overall aesthetic and can increase the value of your home.  If you don't maintain your trees, however, you could be making your homes overall worse.

By pruning your trees, you can control how they grow.  This gives you the ability to shape your trees and make them stand out on your property.  On top of that, recent nationwide studies have shown that mature trees on a well-landscaped yard can improve a home value by between 7% and 19%.

4. To Stay Safe

A big reason to trim your trees is to keep yourself, your family, and your neighbors safe.  By removing overgrown and dead branches, you reduce the chances of them falling or being blown down.

Heavy winds, storms, and snow can cause weak branches to break off of a tree and potentially injure someone.  By pruning your trees you make sure to keep the strongest and healthiest branches of your tree.  Not only does this help prevent accidents,  it also helps with the health of the tree because broken branches can cause severe damage to a tree's health.

5. To remove shade on solar panels.

Another big reason to trim your trees is to make sure that your solar panels(if you have them) don't get shaded during the day.  Often,  mature trees that were planted close to a home can cast their shade on the roof of a house.  If you have solar panels or are thinking about getting solar panels,  this shade will drastically reduce the effectiveness of a solar panel system.

By trimming your trees to eliminate rooftop shade,  you can ensure that your solar panels will perform at their best.

What You Will Need

To properly prune your trees you will either need a skilled landscaper or proper pruning equipment and techniques.  

You will also need a way to dispose of your green waste.   You can rent a roll off dumpster which are great for green waste because of its size.  A roll off dumpster will make it possible to trim multiple trees on your property and properly dispose of the waste.

A roll off dumpster varies in size from 15 yards to 40 yards.  Depending on how many trees you have on your property will depend on the size that you will need.  We typically recommend that people rent a 30-yard roll off dumpster.  This gives most people plenty of room to trim multiple trees on their property.

Conclusion

Trimming your trees can have many benefits for your home and your trees.  By adequately cutting your trees you can help your trees grow,  improve your homes aesthetic, keep your family safe, prevent disease, and make sure your solar panels work correctly.