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I won't bother too much with adding anything to the hole if you have it yeah use it, staking the tree is my only concern and a little bit of movement helps the tree in the long run, putting too much goodness in the hole doesn't encourage the roots to spread out, I'm sure others will differ in this approach but it's never failed me yet and this year I plant my second tree ,
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Realise I may be late on this,
but all the cool kids are using mycorrhizal fungi powder to encourage the growth of the secondary root system to harvest the nutrients released by the fungi.
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@Ramsaye
It’s October, bare root fruit tree season.
So remind me
Square hole 2ft deep
Dead cat at the bottom
Elephant shit on top of the cat
Tree in
Fill the hole with the soil mixed with more elephant shit
Jump around
More soil and shit
Jump up, jump up and stamp down
Tie tree to a stick
Did I miss anything?
Also, I got carried away on the internet so have ten trees to plant and my neighbours are running out of cats. Can I just use bonemeal? As for the elephant dung, will bags of general purpose compost do?