Landscape · L-G72HX

Tree Planting and Staking Detail

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The tree is placed in a planting pit with angled sides and a sloped bottom, with the top of the root ball set two inches above finish grade and the trunk flare visible above the mulch. The top one-third of the wire basket and burlap is removed, and the surrounding pit sides and bottom are roughened, with a four-foot auger hole backfilled with amended topsoil for clay soil conditions. Amended backfill is placed around the rootball, and mulch is tapered toward the trunk while leaving a thirty-six-inch diameter circle free of grass at the base. Two eight-foot tree stakes are driven twelve inches minimum into undisturbed soil, secured to the tree using a continuous one-piece flexible strap tree tie fastened with two roofing nails.

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