Response from Maryse Friot, President of the Horticultural Society of Touraine. In the case of a tree planted with bare roots that you have ordered and for which the date of withdrawal from the nursery is defined. Plan to pick it up with a trailer, light and flexible tarpaulins to protect the roots and aerial parts. Straps to tie the plant so that it does not get hurt during transport. Remember to place a cloth between the straps and the bark to avoid injuries. On arrival at your home, the plant will be put in gauge (provisional reception hole, placed northeast and containing a little sand). Otherwise put the plant in the garage, sheltered from light on a damp cardboard and cover the roots with a moistened burlap.
When planting, a tutor will be needed. Buy a stake (acacia or untreated chestnut) adapted to the height of the trunk of the plant. Also get crushed horn, potting soil and possibly others,
The plant being in bare roots, it will be necessary to praline it a few hours (up to 24 hours) before planting, otherwise on the day of planting. Ready-made praline mixes are sold in garden centres, otherwise you can make the praline with clay soil and cow dung well mixed and diluted with rainwater.
In the case of a tree in a root ball or in a container, it must be soaked at least one hour before planting, in a large basin full of rainwater.
Prepare the planting pit the right size: about 3 to 4 times the size of the root ball, container or bare roots of the plant you are going to put in place.
Do not mix the different layers of terrain: – the surface layer of good soil (the first 20 centimeters of depth approximately).
– the deeper soil, often poorer.
Eliminate suspicious insect larvae (white grubs) which could attack the roots, but leave the earthworms which take part in a good oxygenation of the soil. Eliminate large stones, large organic waste…
You have to loosen the bottom of the hole by picking on about twenty cm as well as the side walls.
Cover the hole with a metal sheet until the day of planting
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