By Keith Brown, Certified Arborist Tree Masters Nutrition Trees have basic nutritional requirements that are necessary for survival.
Trees have other basic nutritional requirements that are necessary for proper development.
The other thirteen elements needed by trees for proper development must be obtained from the soil. Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are only the three most growth limiting factors. The other five elements are only required in trace amounts. Before you eat dinner with your family in the evenings the meal must be prepared, right. Trees require organization, too.