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8/13/2019 Tops Landscaping-fact Sheet 002-Tree Planting
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TOPS LANSCAPING FACT SHEET 002 TREE PLANTING
PHONE:0409229145
www.facebook.com/Tops.Landscaping
EMAIL:[email protected]
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
2
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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PHONE:0409229145
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EMAIL:[email protected]
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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EMAIL:[email protected]
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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EMAIL:[email protected]
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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EMAIL:[email protected]
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.