Cherry Trees

The cherry trees from Stark Bros. arrived Friday by UPS. The box was much larger than expected. Sunday they went into the ground. I had forgotten that the bare root trees needed to be soaked in cold water for 4-6 hours before being planted, so they did not get planted until just before the sun went down. All the preparations were made in the morning.

The 4 plants were placed in 2 5 gallon buckets of water and left to soak from 10:00 am until about 4:30. The holes were dug, three times as wide as needed, but only as deep as needed. The holes were filled with water. In the late afternoon when the trees were planted the holes with trees were filled about 2/3 full with compost and topped off with the original dirt from the planting holes. They were then soaked down really well with the garden hose.

Today the dirt will be topped up to the level below the graft on the trees and the trees will be mulched with leaf mulch. They will be watered well throughout the first winter and fertilized in the spring as soon as they start to bud.

David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/