Fall is the time for some tree planting!

[747driver]

Spent the beautiful day here in the mountains planting trees and shrubs with the DW ! Planted 11 Crypte Mrytles and 5 Azaleas. Nice to have the PHD instead of using a shovel ! In 2 years they should look nice. Tomorrow will get the 4 Leyland Cypress in the ground. What do others here like to plant as flowering trees and shrubs?

 

[plowhog]

Your trees are great!! And I like Leyland Cypress.

One of the favorite trees I planted in Sacramento, CA was a bartlett pear. It blooms vivid in white in spring, a a rust color in fall. Quite impressive and it grew very quickly. Like you I also planted crype myrtles-- everyone's favorite.

I am going to try transplanting some small pine trees from CA to Nevada this winter. What do you do to help the trees get established? Any special soil, etc?

I was thinking I would pre-transport a lot of local soil from where I am removing the trees. Then use a backhoe to dig small ones up. To replant, use the PHD or backhoe for a hole, put in some native soil, and plant. I was thinking of doing this in late winter while things were dormant.

 

[Diggin It]

I put a dozen fruit trees in last week. BH makes it a lot easier than a shovel.

 

[Jstpssng]

What size auger did you use? My backhoe works for tree planting but results in odd shaped holes which I feel affects the way that the roots develop.

 

[Streetcar]

Service berry for flowering tree. Bartlett bears are pretty but have huge drawbacks. Flowers and berry stink, wind damage is common, seedlings from tree are common and have thorns. State of Ohio just banned sale of Bartlett pears

 

[747driver]

Your trees are great!! And I like Leyland Cypress.

One of the favorite trees I planted in Sacramento, CA was a bartlett pear. It blooms vivid in white in spring, a a rust color in fall. Quite impressive and it grew very quickly. Like you I also planted crype myrtles-- everyone's favorite.

I am going to try transplanting some small pine trees from CA to Nevada this winter. What do you do to help the trees get established? Any special soil, etc?

I was thinking I would pre-transport a lot of local soil from where I am removing the trees. Then use a backhoe to dig small ones up. To replant, use the PHD or backhoe for a hole, put in some native soil, and plant. I was thinking of doing this in late winter while things were dormant.

The soil here is not great...some of it is rocky and that red clay ! I put a top soil mix in the bottom first then add some fertilizer. Use the soil I dug up and mix with the top soil mix in layers to fill the hole up. Sprinkle some fertilizer on top and dress out with woodchips.

 

[747driver]

What size auger did you use? My backhoe works for tree planting but results in odd shaped holes which I feel affects the way that the roots develop.

I used a 9" auger. I run the pto around 8,000rpm, found that slower is better as it prevents that dreaded corkscrew to the bottom ! I lift the auger slightly while going fwd and backwards to wallow out the hole. I need to get a 12" though.

 

[747driver]

I put a dozen fruit trees in last week. BH makes it a lot easier than a shovel.

Go big or go home ...!!! I need to get a 12" auger for sure.

 

[plowhog]

I used a 9" auger. I run the pto around 8,000rpm,

Did you dig through to China?

 

[fishheadbob]

The soil here is not great...some of it is rocky and that red clay ! I put a top soil mix in the bottom first then add some fertilizer. Use the soil I dug up and mix with the top soil mix in layers to fill the hole up. Sprinkle some fertilizer on top and dress out with woodchips.

Good move with the mulch. Keep them well mulched for at least a few years and your results should be pleasing. Also don't let them dry out. Fall and spring shouldn't be a problem with sufficient rainfall, be sure to keep them wet next summer.

Bartlett pears aren't bad, I wonder if you're confusing them with Bradford or Cleveland pears which have the problems mentioned above.

 

[Diggin It]

Bartlett pears aren't bad, I wonder if you're confusing them with Bradford or Cleveland pears which have the problems mentioned above.

That's what i was thinking. Clevelands grow wild around here and I've kept a few because of how showy they are. Nice white blooms in Spring and bright orange and red leaves in Fall. Wicked thorns though. They're tougher than Bradfords too as far as wind, but I lost one big branch in a windstorm this year.

 

[oosik]

Spring is the time for planting trees and shrubs around here. In the fall the ground is just bone dry and I've lost most trees planted then - plus the pocket gophers are merciless that time of year.

Plus watering in the fall seems to go against Nature's plan around here. Everything is shutting down for the coming winter.

 

[Diggin It]

Spring is the time for planting trees and shrubs around here. In the fall the ground is just bone dry and I've lost most trees planted then - plus the pocket gophers are merciless that time of year.

Plus watering in the fall seems to go against Nature's plan around here. Everything is shutting down for the coming winter.

As I understand it, the plants can work on the root system instead of having to supply energy to the leaves. Supposedly make the roots stronger for the next Spring. Fall or late Winter/pre-Spring is when I've been moving wild tree sprouts for a while and it seems to be working out for the most part. Some of the ones moved in pre-Spring started out OK, but died off in Summer when things dried out apparently because they weren't able to get a good root system going. Others did fine.

 

[BlackOps]

i liked leyland too - they are dense and grow fats but in TN they get bagworms so badly and you have to use toxic systemics to kill them when the trees get 30' plus. due to spray reach. they die quickly after a number of years too - i planted maybe 75-100 and lost many of them and that was to hide my place.... so now i have to plant other stuff to hope they grow fast enough to hide my land and then remove the dead leyland to plant something else in their place so a big cost all the way around and a real pain.

 

[dalola]

I've always said, want to see folks who care about future generations? Watch who's planting trees. ;-)

I like the hardwoods & spruces here in OH, we usually plant varieties of maple, oak, and hickory, along with norway & black hill spruce. Many we start from seeds & pots, and put in the ground in the fall at year three. I think they adapt & root in better when planted small & young. Of course, it's more care, & the payout takes a lot longer, but as mentioned earlier, these are not for me. All of our kids & grand kids have trees planted "for them" that they get to watch grow along side themselves.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
In the long run it seems like those smaller trees catch up, as the transplanting isn't such a shock to their system. We don't need to plant trees here, generally they come in on their own... a little thicker than they needed too.