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treeskinThat was too much hard work for a Saturday.
Just finished digging up the remains of the root balls on four trees that I'm going to be replacing next week. Not big trees, just 2" caliper. But I had to get the wire basket that supports the roots in transit out of the ground, and I had to do that with a shovel, 'cuz I also needed to find the drip irrigation and pull it out of the way.
Never did find the drip on the last tree. Dug a hole too wide for me to step across (about 4 1/2 feet), and almost 3 feet deep, but no sign of the drip tubes. I'm powerful confused.
Did figure out why that particular tree (a 2" caliper, low-branching flowering dogwood) died this summer. One, if the drip is in fact not there, it was not on my watering route, and was too dry this summer. Two, the top of the root ball was almost 12" below grade. This is really bad if you're a tree. Three, the tree had last been in a heavy red clay (last nursery to grow it before transplanting it to our tree trail), and that's death on flowering dogwoods. Probably why we only have one of those left, out of the three planted out there.
Just finished digging up the remains of the root balls on four trees that I'm going to be replacing next week. Not big trees, just 2" caliper. But I had to get the wire basket that supports the roots in transit out of the ground, and I had to do that with a shovel, 'cuz I also needed to find the drip irrigation and pull it out of the way.
Never did find the drip on the last tree. Dug a hole too wide for me to step across (about 4 1/2 feet), and almost 3 feet deep, but no sign of the drip tubes. I'm powerful confused.
Did figure out why that particular tree (a 2" caliper, low-branching flowering dogwood) died this summer. One, if the drip is in fact not there, it was not on my watering route, and was too dry this summer. Two, the top of the root ball was almost 12" below grade. This is really bad if you're a tree. Three, the tree had last been in a heavy red clay (last nursery to grow it before transplanting it to our tree trail), and that's death on flowering dogwoods. Probably why we only have one of those left, out of the three planted out there.
