Change the way you dig and you'll grow better, stronger trees Planting a tree is one of the easiest ways you can make a lasting difference to your local environment and, depending on the species ...

How to plant a tree, the right way When you're digging a hole to plant your tree, the temptation is to dig it in the shape of most holes: you know, a circle. The root ball is called a "ball" for a ...

It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What could go wrong? Yet year after year, we see trees planted ...

Tomorrow is Arbor Day, and that means it’s a prime time of year to plant a new tree or three. There’s more to the deed, though, than just digging a hole and setting the rootball into it.

When you plant a tree, the hole you’ve dug has to have a flat bottom. Otherwise, the tree won’t stand and grow straight, as my teammates and I learned from Floyd.

It just means you plant a thousand trees that all die of the same disease later on, like the banana trees. Adrian Akau October 7, 2024 12:46 PM If it was made about 10x the size, it probably could ...

Recommendations now, from nearly all research universities, agree that when planting trees, don’t add extra materials to the planting soil. Simply dig the hole, plant the tree, and backfill with ...

I spent the last Saturday in September digging and standing in holes. I walked home sore, sweaty and happy. And buoyed against the naysaying that goes hand in hand with living in a complicated ...