PLanted too deep, now what?
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Comments (3)I'd dig it up, separate the garlic and replant (I assume it's growing in a clump at this point). If you let them grow as they are then the bulbs will be quite small next year. Garlic needs to be dug and replanted every year for the biggest bulbs. When 1/2 to 2/3 of the leaves turn brown in summer, you harvest the bulbs and cure them for eating and replanting. Rodney...See MoreWhat happens when you plant a tree too deep: in pictures
Comments (1)That died due to girdling roots. One cause of which is planted too deep. another is was in container too long....See MoreTree Planted Too Deep - Too Late To Raise
Comments (16)I did my red maple in earlier in spring, trying to raise it. Mine was planted about 10-12" too deep, but I planted it myself, with the help of a hired hand in fall of 2015. BTW, I'm in Marlboro NJ, zone 7A. The tree in question was a beautiful October Glory maple. I was just aiming to get the top of the burlap bag an inch or 2 above the surrounding soil, not realizing until next spring, that I had made a mistake. It started out a beautiful 'rubrum' in spring, giving me hours of pleasure, as I just stood around it, sometimes nursing a drink. But as a very wet spring progressed, and the leaves were still not opening out fully, my mind raced to a number of things that could have gone wrong in the planting. I definitely had not cut the cage around it as thoroughly as I should have (damn thick guage wire, so hard to cut with pliers!). So, one very wet day, in a very very wet week, I started investigating, prying the dirt away, in an effort to find the wire cage. In the process I discovered that I could not see the root flare at all, instead the trunk was buried, and was discoloring and fraying from the surrounding soil and water. So I decided to raise it. I leaned on the tree, this way and that until it was moving on it's root ball. I shoveled dirt under the root ball, trying to work it in with my foot. Then I had a brainwave! I soaked the root ball and surrounding with water and waited. As the water drained down, the dirt mixed in the water found it's way to the bottom, while I was still wiggling it. It worked, the tree was slowly raised. And then I made the fatal mistake! I also saw roots that were growing from down on up. Now, with the tree raised, these roots were poking into the air. I started cutting them, some of them were big and juicy. I felt horrible, but could not stop! After I had raised and root pruned the tree to my aesthetic satisfaction, I covered it with dirt just so, and mulched and staked it. It looked really nice, with the frayed trunk, previously suffering the indignity of being buried, now finally breathing and recovering, or so I thought. I kept the tree well watered, even spritzing it a few times a day (deputizing my kids in the job as well). But the leaves started drooping. I increased the watering and spritzing, but to no avail. One by one, the leaves gradually turned brown, and then dropped. After a few weeks, in a frantic effort to save the tree, I cut back the branches a couple of inches from the terminal buds to encourage growth. But to no avail. Right now, it's late August, and a scratch test reveals a dead tree. No cambium, no phloem, no nothing! There are leaves growing from the base, but even those are drying up right now. So, I will definitely be replacing the tree. I have a question from this learned group, but I will first let this greek tragedy soak in first....See MorePlanted too close...Now what?
Comments (19)It looks to me like something fairly good could be done with these pines. My question is who would do the work? If you could do it yourself, which would mean having some good chainsaw experience, I can give you detailed instructions and some technical hints about how to solve one or two specific problems you will encounter. If you can't do this work yourself, contact your local forest service and/or find a good consulting forester. these may be some chance that you could hire someone to do the work under the supervision of a forester. Basically what I am talking about is thinning out these trees, leaving the best for further growth. And then as you would like for aesthetic purposes, prune at least some of them. And just for your information--although they are somewhat too crowded now, they were planted properly with the proper spacing for this kind of plantation. --Spruce...See MoreKeely Line z8a north texas
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