You might remember from a previous post that The Husband and I, with lots of help from my Dad, bought 40+ baby trees from a local forester's sale to make up for some of the trees we had to get rid of when we bought the house.
We bought them and put them in the "tree nursery" in spring of 2012.
To minimize the amount of watering we'd have to do, we chose to wait until the fall to move them. Since the land is in the Pacific Northwest, we figured Mother Nature would take over the watering soon enough.
First on our list was to plan where the babies would go. While I knew the general areas for all the trees, I wanted our trees to look like a forest -- not like lines of screen trees -- so I took care to place each tree individually. This involved figuring out how far apart each type of tree needed to be, deciding how to make things look as natural as possible, then measuring (algebra used!), and flagging where each tree went.
Here's the rest of the story - in pictures:
We bought them and put them in the "tree nursery" in spring of 2012.
The baby trees - summer of '12
When we went out this spring, we noticed that the babies were really starting to grow. Starting to grow so much, in fact, that we really needed to move them.
A couple trees didn't make it, but we were left with a great selection of western red cedar, incense cedar, deodar cedar, hemlock, and 3 giant sequoia.
The baby trees - fall '13
Oh what a difference a year makes!
To minimize the amount of watering we'd have to do, we chose to wait until the fall to move them. Since the land is in the Pacific Northwest, we figured Mother Nature would take over the watering soon enough.
First on our list was to plan where the babies would go. While I knew the general areas for all the trees, I wanted our trees to look like a forest -- not like lines of screen trees -- so I took care to place each tree individually. This involved figuring out how far apart each type of tree needed to be, deciding how to make things look as natural as possible, then measuring (algebra used!), and flagging where each tree went.
Here's the rest of the story - in pictures:
First, we mowed the areas where the trees were to be planted.
This is the largest area - along our side fence line.
The Husband dug up each of the trees.
You can really see how big they've become when a person is next to them!
We were smart enough to buy a post hole digger for the tractor,
so at least that part was easy...
Our first couple trees in their "forever" homes.
30 more trees went along this line.
This is the last tree in the line.
We put newspaper around each base, and finished it off with mulch.
Hopefully that will keep the weeds down a bit.
We also soaked all of them in using
a root builder fertilizer recommended by our local nursery.
Grow babies, grow!
We put a few of the trees out near the road,
so we'll have a nice view of them from the house.
The last few trees went in the area SE of the house -- adding some evergreens to the deciduous trees already in the "forest" area.
I can't wait to watch them fill in!
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