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Five Must Read Tips You’ll Want To Be Aware Of Before Planting Your Tree.

This may make that newly transplanted specimen tree pretty much certain to survive and it may very well look great year after year and thrive with your landscape. These suggestions are something you need to read before you let your landscaper, garden center, or tree nursery sell you anything.

1) Please do not plant the tree to deep. Trees need oxygen just as you or I do, as you pile extra dirt on top of the roots you are lowering the quantity of oxygen that may go to the roots. Some trees are more sensitive to this than others; Maple trees are awfully sensitive to being planted to deep. It can be better to plant several inches above ground level and mulch around it.

2) Please do not pile mulch or dirt surrounding the trunk. Certain parts of the tree are supposed to stay below the ground and certain regions are meant to be above ground. When you pile a bundle of mulch or dirt about the trunk you are putting a part of the tree that was designed to be above ground, below ground. This will make the trunk to rot and your newly transplanted tree to perish. Mulch near the tree but leave about one inch separation between the trunk and the beginning of the mulch

3) You should not let the rabbits kill your tree. Rabbits are almost always my arch enemy when it comes to trees. In the winter, when they get hungry and there is nothing to feed on they will resort to ingesting the bark off your tree. They will eat a nice ring all the way around your tree, killing your specimen tree every time. Nurseries, Garden Centers, Tree Farms and Landscapers, will not warranty a tree that has animal damage. Put a piece of corrugated pipe surrounding the bottom of the tree for the winter to keep the critters away.

4) Purchase some root stimulator with Mycorrhizal Fungus in it. This fungus thrives in nature where there is a natural underground ecosystem. The fungus attaches to the roots and generates nutritional value and moisture to the tree. There is a symbiotic association between the roots and the fungus. When you grow a new tree there is not any of this fungus in the ground due to the fact that the fungus does need to be joined to the roots of a tree for it to survive. The bottom line without getting in too much detail is, get it, it works! Apply it in the spring for most beneficial benefits. You can incorporate this on your plants as well; give your complete landscape a little boost for the season.

5) An excessive amount of water will kill your tree just as easily as too little water. There is no hard and fast rule on how much to water, nonetheless, you cannot afford not to water your tree incorrectly. This is the number one cause new trees die.

Learn more pertaining to transplanting trees at the Milwaukee garden center website.