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TIL that planting trees the wrong way can actually hurt more than help
A local conservation officer told me last spring that most volunteer tree plantings put saplings too deep or in the wrong spots, and I blew him off. Now my neighborhood group's trees from April are all stunted or dead while a properly planted patch by the highway is thriving. Has anyone else run into this issue with community planting events?
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margaret23410d ago
Hold up, you're BLAMING the volunteers for this? Come on now. Most trees in the wild don't get any special treatment, they just grow where a seed falls and they do fine. Community plantings are MORE careful than nature, if anything. You're telling me a bunch of people pushing saplings into the ground is WORSE than a bird pooping a seed onto a patch of dirt? The real issue is people giving up on the trees too fast and not watering them through a dry summer. Trees are tough, they can handle a little too much dirt or a tight hole if you just give them a season to settle in.
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jones.blake10d ago
Yeah, a buddy of mine helped with a big tree planting thing in his town and they lost like half of them. Turns out they just dug holes in random grassy spots near the sidewalk and packed the dirt way too tight around the roots. Is there even a right way to tell if you're doing it correctly without having to study it?
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