[NAFEX] planting depth for apricot

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Sat Jun 4 17:05:45 EDT 2005


I had an arborist over this morning to look at an oak tree the neighbor 
has damaged, and as we walked past my apricot he said, "that fruit tree 
- the dirt is too high up on its truck.  You ought to remove the mulch 
and dirt down until you find the 'shoulders'."  I removed a little 
mulch and found some fibrous roots, but he said those were growing from 
the trunk, and I ought to dig deeper.

Is he right?  It occurs to me that the rootstock wasn't grown from 
seed, and it might only have roots form the "trunk" - at least, apples 
sometimes are propagated that way, I think.  The tree is a a puget gold 
from Burnt Ridge.  I don't remember what the rootstock is.

Thanks,
Ginda




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