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How to plant container trees
You can’t keep your plants in containers forever. Just like you can’t keep your children in kindergarten forever. You have to shift plant your container trees out in the garden to help them grow better. If you have planned to plant your container trees, how will you go about the process? It’s very simple. You will need:
- Garden fork
- Tree ties
- Spade or Shovel
- Two wooden stakes
- Mulch
Procedure
- Choose the site where you want to plant your container tree.
- Put your container right at the centre.
- Mark out a planting hole with your shovel that it about three times the width of the container.
- Start digging the hole. Make sure it is about 1-1/2 times the height of your container.
- Once you have dug your hole. Loosen the sides of the hole with your garden fork so that it gets easier for the roots to penetrate the surrounding soil.
- Plant 2 wooden stakes at outward facing angles such that it has enough space to accommodate the root ball in between. The stakes support the tree while it grows up.
- Take the container and water the tree thoroughly before removing it from the pot.
- You would notice that the roots are bent and sticking on to the sides of the root ball. You will have to ease them up with your hands.
- Fill in some soil into your hole before placing your tree in the center of the hole. This would ensure that the tree grows at the same level as in the container.
- Position the tree well in the hole and start filling in the rest of the soil and seal the plant with the soil well.
- Its time to water your plant.
- Spread the mulch over the soil so that it helps retain moisture while the tree is establishing itself.
There you go… your tree is all settled at its new place.
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MY COMMENT (Willem)
It’s recommendable to create a funnel-shape or cup-shape cavity around the tree, so that rain or irrigation water can easily be collected in that cavity. Such a cavity can be created with local soil before the mulching. Mulch is then spread over the bottom of the cavity.
