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Organic Gardening Done Right - Part 4

"Visiting a Timberland, Nursery, or Garden Center can be an enjoyable and relaxing time. Looking at all of the plants, shrubs, and trees and envisioning how they will suit your landscaping plans. But there are some crucial things you require to look at before you purchase; otherwise your beautiful plant or tree, that looked so excellent when you bought it, will turn your landscape into an eyesore.

A Real Story:

Nancy loves plants and trees, nature, and wildlife; but she just bought a new house in a new development that has very little landscaping and no personal privacy. Spring Time comes and Nancy is excited to enhance her landscape. So Nancy goes to her local garden center to select some plants and trees. She is so pleased when she arrives; all the plants and trees look so nice. Nancy desires instant personal privacy so she selects the greatest trees they have, but they are too big for her to handle so she has the garden center provide and plant the trees. She enjoys as the team at the Garden Center moves her trees off to the side. She winces as they pull her tree out from the others due to the fact that she can hear the branches breaking as they get captured on the other trees.

A year goes by and the trees that Nancy had planted just do not look as great as they did in the garden center. Some of her Spruce Trees have brown branches on the bottom and they look type of yellow. Nancy calls the garden center to grumble, they come out and state that the tree is great and is just a little stressed out. They state it will submit next year and will look excellent. ""OK"" Nancy states.

Well, next year comes, and Nancy's Trees do not look any better, however it is still not dead and by this time its warranty has actually expired. Year after Year the tree aims to barley hang on. The branches are thinning and slowly the tree dies. Now Nancy wishes she had actually never bought those trees. If only Nancy had actually read my post she might have had a tree that will always look as excellent as it did the day she bought it.

Do not be Nancy!

Here are some things to Think about:

Rootball Size - This is the greatest factor of why your tree will suffer down the road. Trees require roots - The more the better! Christmas Trees look excellent when you buy them, but what takes place purchase New Years - they pass away. A lot of Garden Centers are offering trees that are not much better than Christmas Trees. It only makes good sense from their point of view. Dirt is exceptionally heavy and things that are heavy become costly. They are more pricey to move, plant, and set up. It is more affordable for them to have to change a tree if it dies than to offer a tree that is predestined to live. The size of a rootball will tell you how it will look down the road. If one garden center is cheaper, don't just compare the tree but compare the roots.

How it is watered - Numerous Garden Centers water their trees various ways and some do not seem to water them at all. Once the rootball has actually been dried out, a lot of damage has actually already been done. Make sure the location where you are buying your trees is keeping them watered.

Potted or Balled and Burlapped - Do not be deceived into believing that if you are purchasing it potted, in some way it is much better than balled and burlapped. It is not unusual in the market for a tree to be removed early in the spring and placed in a pot, rather of placed in burlap. All this does is make you think that it was grown in the pot. Be sure to ask for how long it has actually been in the pot. If you get a balled and burlapped tree make certain that the burlap and wire basket is tight; if it is loose, root damage will happen when it is walked around.

Guarantee - This is a huge misunderstanding, I have actually changed many of my competitors' trees that allegedly had a guarantee, but the tree was not dead - just 1/2 dead and unsightly - so they do not replace it. Other times the customer was told by the garden center that they did not water the tree and they were not going to change it. While the customer might have not offered it the correct amount of water at all times, if you get a tree that has a bigger root system you have a lot more wiggle room to make errors.

How it is Handled - The more a tree is handled the more root damage can happen. The very best is if a tree spade, mounted on a truck moves it directly from the field to your lawn. If you can not go that route ensure that they are using the proper devices to plant the trees. Couple of things are even worse for a tree than to be dropped, kicked, pulled, and pried; this is what will happen if they are not using the appropriate equipment to plant the tree."