I had to use a mining pick to plant my fruit trees in hard pack red dirt with gravel. I mainly wanted to get them anchored in a small hole filled with compost to feed the roots and then I started adding a mix of forest soil and organic material around them all season to make rich soil mounds. My small straight fig trees will be easy to protect this winter if we get Arctic blasts but my large ones are sitting ducks. I have tarps and I left low horizontal branches where I can at least protect a large part of the bigger trees and not get complete dieback to the roots.
Great question. It may not have been super clear in the video but this was purely a demonstration of his preferred technique. It was not quite time to actually do this so he has actually uncovered them while he waited for a few freezes to make sure all leaves have dropped before tucking them all in for bed.
I had to use a mining pick to plant my fruit trees in hard pack red dirt with gravel. I mainly wanted to get them anchored in a small hole filled with compost to feed the roots and then I started adding a mix of forest soil and organic material around them all season to make rich soil mounds. My small straight fig trees will be easy to protect this winter if we get Arctic blasts but my large ones are sitting ducks. I have tarps and I left low horizontal branches where I can at least protect a large part of the bigger trees and not get complete dieback to the roots.
Why wouldn't you remove any remaining leaves before burying? Leaves would seem to encourage mold/mildew .
Great question. It may not have been super clear in the video but this was purely a demonstration of his preferred technique. It was not quite time to actually do this so he has actually uncovered them while he waited for a few freezes to make sure all leaves have dropped before tucking them all in for bed.