mound under hydrangea tree
Susan , 7a, CT
2 months ago
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Topsoil or 'fill dirt' for fruit tree mounds?
Comments (5)Yep - I would go with "Top soil"... Not sure where you live - but where I am from down there... there were some really strong layers in the soil... The good quality top soil was pretty dark - and maybe 6-10" deep... Then - coarse sand under that... Then - you could be in shell rock and even coarser sand below that.... Other places had muck under the filled in sand, which was pretty rich... Personally - I wouldn't want a truck full of yellow coarse sand... or shell rock either... OR...Here's the kicker... Frequently around bigger cities - the "Fill Dirt" came from old, dug up septic tank drain fields.. still full of Terra cotta pipe... and it's not really what I want to be mounding my fruit trees into.... You can tell that stuff by the smell... Very obvious... Thanks...See MoreCan I remove lawn mound around trees?
Comments (5)hey ..... a pic would really help ... but in my experience.. maple do that naturally.. and there is nothing you are going to do to stop it.. they lift the soil at the trunk.... and with their surface.. fibrous roots... right at the trunk.. there probably isnt any soil for you to remove.. if in fact.. i doubt you could get a shovel in there ... if you wanted to .... your base problem.. is that you want to force an aesthetic on the way a tree naturally grows ... why cant you just let it do its own thing??? if it were bugging me.. i would round up the grass... and throw some mulch over it.. and be done with it .. and quit trying to grow grass under a huge tree .. you know.. in nature... there are not lawns under forest trees ... just leaf litter.. aka mulch ... the short story is.. you are fighting nature.. its natural tendencies.. with trying to grow grass there.. so instead of growing the grass.. think about solving your dilemma some other way .... good luck ken...See Morehydrangeas under/ around large pine tree?
Comments (3)Most pine are not surface rooted, that's the reason mature oak and pine are recommended as overstory trees for rhododendron and azalea woodland type beds. I do have several things, including a hydrangea, under a mature (read 3 story, limbed from the bottom to allow more light)in a garden I tend next door. The soil is poor there, providing additional summer water is an issue even here. Top dressing with compost each Spring helps alot with the water and nutrient problems...the hydrangea blooms reliably every year with no other fertilizer. I don't think the ph of the soil should concern you unless you were hoping for bright pink blooms - hydrangea can develop chlorosis in soils much over neutral and prefer a more acidic ground. This could be a very different site from your own, when I say the soil is poor - it's clay based, bottom of a slope where it stays damp all winter. Becomes hard, hard, hard in our few dry months :)...See Morehydrangea under canopy of a pine tree
Comments (3)Hello Louise in Quebec. I live in northern Illinois and have several hydrangeas and rhodies just along the edge of pine and spruce tree canopies in various parts of the yard. They all seem to enjoy the protection the trees provide, however I have noticed that they seem to need more water compared to plants that are in less sheltered areas. Maybe because the rain that drips off the trees onto the plants evaporates a little more before it reaches them as opposed to plants not under a tree canopy -- my own unscientific theory, of course. Good luck this winter!...See Moretsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
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