Properly planting your tree is critical to maintaining a healthy tree for years to come. Incorrectly performing one or more steps can set your trees growth back years and might eventually lead to its death.
- To start you’ll want to make sure you aren’t digging into any utility lines beneath the soil.
- Follow that up by checking for mature tree size and make sure to give it enough room to grow vertically and horizontally without any interference.
- Dig a hole as deep as the root ball and 2 to 3 times
as wide as the root ball. - Check the drainage to ensure this is a good planting site. If necessary modify the hole for better drainage or change the planting site.
- Remove the tree from the container and place the tree on the ground.
- Remove soil from the top of the root ball until the top of the main…
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