Tops Landscaping-fact Sheet 002-Tree Planting

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TOPS LANSCAPING FACT SHEET 002 TREE PLANTING

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1. Select your site, on our patch we workon a 5m by 5m grid to allow appropriate

space for root and branch development

2. Dig a trench from you last mound insequence to facilitate keeping your

19mm poly pipe irrigation below ground

3. Select your site for digging over, workon a 2m by 2m area to minimise

competition from weeds and allow for

better root development and drainage

4. Grab some gypsum if you have clayeysoil, I apply approx. 1.5 bags to a 4m

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area. Gypsum addition will improve soil

structure, drainage and water availability

5. Dig over the area where you areplanning on planting and spread

gypsum. Dig to 0.10m

6. Dig a 0.5 by 0.5m hole to a depth ofapprox. 0.3 to 0.5m at the centre of the

dug are


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7. Emplace a starpicket next to the hole tosecure the plant to and also attach ag

drainage pipe

8. Wrap some ag pipe in a spiral motiondown to the bottom of the hole and

secure to the starpicket with cable ties,

more gypsum in the hole

9. Add some organic fertilizer to the holebase

10.Fill the hole with approximately 40 to 50Lof water

11.Spread cardboard around the hole andover the area dug over in step 6

12.Mix some organic rich fertilizer with abarrow load of good quality soil


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13.Backfill the hole you dug earlier with one barrow load of soil then add a further 4 barrowloads of soil onto the cardboard emplaced in step 11. Soil utilised should have approximatelythe same consistency and fertilizer ratio that was used in step 12 above.

14.Spread good organic fertilizer over thetop of the mound you have constructed

15.Use a fork to thoroughly turn thefertilizer into the mound. You should aim

to dig the mound down to a depth of

approximately 0.3m

16.Dig a well at the top of the mound and fill with water till it will take no more, approx. 50Lused here. This may seem like a lot of water however the more utilised at this stage the

better the quality of the final planting and the greater the chance that you tree will survive

to live, thrive and give you great production in the years ahead


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17.Grab your tree for plantout which youhave soaked overnight in a mix of

rainwater to worm farm leachate at a

ratio of 10 to 1. This will minimise plant

stress and ensure better initial root

development

18.Pour the remainder of the rainwater andwork farm leachate into the hole.

19.Gently remove the tree from the pot,tease out its roots and emplace central

in the hole .

20.Backfill with soil so top of soil ball is atthe same level as the mound top. Water

in thoroughly

21.Attach info tags to the star picket 22.Your completed and planted tree


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23.Cover the mound with a good qualityweed free mulch, for most of my

plantings I choose to utilise sugar cane

mulch

24.Tree now mulched down

25.Stretch out some 13mm brown polypipe and cut to approximately 10m in

length.

26.Cut your 13mm brown poly pipe weeperhose.

27.Grab a 13mm end plug and a 13mmclamp

28. Install the end plug at the end of theweeper hose and clamp off


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29.Attach a 19mm to 13mm reducing teeonto your 19mm poly pipe main delivery

lines and then clamp off the 13mm poly

pipe

30.Run you 13mm poly pipe in a spiralpattern around your mound to ensure

effective and efficient watering

31.For deeper watering you want to run a4L/hr slow weeper down the ag pipe

line you put in earlier

32.Emplace a small hole into your 19mmblack poly pipe.

33.Put a 4mm double ended barbed pluginto hole

34. Install 4mm black poly flexible hose ontthe other end of the barbed plug


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35.Put a 4L/Hr slow weeper onto the otherend of the 4mm flexible poly line

36.Drop the slow weeper down the ag pipeto facilitate deep soil watering and

encourage deeper root development

37. Install further 4L/hr slow weepers directinto the 13mm brown poly pipe. Dig a

small fertilizer well under each weeper

38.Test that all weepers are working andhave effective flow

39.Completed mound bar mulching downover the top of weeper hose

40.Pack up all equipment used during theinstall process


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41.Mulch down the mound with furthersugar cane mulch to maintain better

moisture levels in the soil

42.Crack a cold beverage of choice andenjoy your new addition. Never choose

bad beer.

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