Autumn is here and it’s the best time to plant a shrub. Its roots will take root and will benefit from rainwater in the fall, winter and even early spring.
If you buy a potted plant, in store or on the internet, you have to ask yourself a few questions:
- How tall will he be as an adult?
- Where do I want to install it?
- Is it a sun plant? A hedge plant?
All these questions are essential in order to be able to give a good life to your plant and that it can flourish properly. Even if a potted plant can be planted all year round, it is still necessary to avoid periods of frost and those of heat wave.
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Roland Motte, Radio France
How to plant your shrub correctly?
- Make a hole three times the volume of the pot. This will allow young roots to develop easily.
- Mix half and half the earth that was dug with potting soil for planting.
- Before planting, soak the root ball with the pot, entirely in water.
- Then, remove the pot and scrape around the root ball with pruning shears so as to disperse the roots in the hole.
- Place the clod in the center of the hole, ensuring that the level of the soil of the clod is level with the garden soil.
- Fill the empty spaces around the plant with the soil-mixture and tamp it down well.
- The rest of the soil that has not filled the hole will make it possible to make a basin all around the planting hole, so that when you water, the water does not run off and remains well above the roots.
- Water copiously at planting and follow the watering throughout the first year.
- The following years, the shrub will have its roots and will be able to develop properly.
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