[NAFEX] Subject: Re: the blizzard that wasn't/planting potted trees

Toni Pralle toni.pralle at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 22:30:56 EDT 2009


>>>>A quick way to get a relatively small root ball to remain intact is to
plant some fast rooting weeds in the pot. Bunch grasses work well and are
easy to pull once the tree is established. You might want to give it a
little extra food to make up for the competition.>>>
<<  I have tried every method at keeping that dirt ball intact (wet dirt,
dry dirt, cut the pot down the sides and remove the sides to slide it into
the hole on the bottom, lots of hands, etc). >>Having said that, you really
have no choice but to get the trees their own dirt to live in.>>

OK. New plan is to take the dirt/tree out of the pot tomorrow night, line
the pot with nylon net, repot the tree and wait until warm weather. I don't
have any burlap so can't do that. Maybe throw a handful of grass seed or
something on top of the dirt. maybe green beans?? It doesn't matter as long
as it makes lots of roots and is easily destroyed. What else would I have on
hand? And it's plenty cool here yet; peas might be better. Cool weather
crop and the roots would fix nitrogen........I think I might be stressing
too much. Before I knew you guys I would have planted them today or left
them in the bucket until I could plant them outside. Most stuff lives that I
plant that way. God knows I mean well so usually takes care of things for
me. This is good practice for the P24c that will be coming one of these
days.


Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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