What a great system! How tall is your box?
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Carolyn Summers
63 Ferndale Drive
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914-478-5712
From: George Fieo <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:56:20 -0500
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [ENTS] Growing Trees
Larry & ENTS,
In March 2009 there was a discussion about growing trees and I was inspired
by Larry¹s tree box. I work for a municipality and with my supervisors
permission constructed a tree box. The box is 12¹ long x 4¹ wide and can
house 200 seedlings. After I leveled and framed the box I removed all the
soil within the box to a depth of two feet. I then filled the box with 3¹ of
good soil. The soil is 50% rich topsoil, 25% peat moss, and 25% coarse
sand. Most of the trees I planted are hickories or oaks and is why I went
to such extremes with the soil depth. An 8² hickory or oak seedling can
have a 3¹ taproot and some of them will be remaining in the bed for 2-3
years. The others will be either transplanted to a permanent location or
planted in Rootmaker pots to make room in the bed for next years seedlings.
Then I leveled off the soil and made two framed 4¹ x 6¹ screens to keep the
critters out. After a few rain showers and the soil settled I sowed the
seeds, marking the rows with tags showing which species and their location
where they were collected from. The final step was to cover the seed with
some leaves. Species I planted this fall are pignut and shagbark hickory,
chestnut, white, and swamp white oak, and blackgum. I¹ll post again in the
spring.
George
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