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  • From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] planting /sod
  • Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:35:55 +0000

Because of our lack of snow the ground is thawing early and I am out tree planting today. My ideal method of planting is to have killed the sod the year before with some kind of covering. My real method however, is that that rarely gets done, so I cut straight down in a circle past the sod (1 meter dia. in today's instance), then slide the shovel underneath toward the center just below the grass' roots. I then cut this in half and lift each slab of sod off to the side, dirt side up. Plant the young tree next, mounding dirt around it up to ground level. Then in a couple days the sod slabs have dried enough I can shake about half of the dirt back where it came from. In another month or so the sod slabs have dried / died and I put the half circles, roots up, back in their original place around the tree as a mulch.
Just curious how other folk do it. Happy planting, Del

Del Stubbs www.pinewoodforge.com ag zone2/3






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