January 12 2019, 12:01am, The Times
From staking your new plant to preparing the soil
You've bought your plant, maybe a birch, a magnolia, or a big shrubby Japanese maple, and you want to plant it in the lawn. Fine. But how do you make sure it really takes off? How do you make sure it doesn't just jog along while you get older watching it? There are ways.
1 Prepare the planting holeIt will need a well-prepared planting hole of two spades' depth, with lots of garden compost worked into the bottom layer. However, if the site tends to be prone to waterlogging, plant your tree on a 20cm-high mound of soil a metre across, so that the vital junction of root and shoot is above the general soil level. The tree should look as if it's planted…
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