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=== September 11, 2011 - Planting fruit trees === | === September 11, 2011 - Planting fruit trees === | ||
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Yesterday i planted a few fruit trees. The photo shows a pear tree, Beurre Hardy. | Yesterday i planted a few fruit trees. The photo shows a pear tree, Beurre Hardy. | ||
I do spend quite some time to plant one tree and this is a good investment that pays off later. | I do spend quite some time to plant one tree and this is a good investment that pays off later. | ||
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When a tree is planted, it can be connected to the energies that already are in the garden. This is a prayerful, meditative activity. | When a tree is planted, it can be connected to the energies that already are in the garden. This is a prayerful, meditative activity. | ||
For fruit trees, give them at least once a year a new gift of compost on top of the soil. | For fruit trees, give them at least once a year a new gift of compost on top of the soil. | ||
| − | I also spray lava flour over the leaves once or twice a year as this gives the tree trace minerals and protects against many plant diseases. | + | I also spray lava flour over the leaves once or twice a year as this gives the tree trace minerals and protects against many plant diseases.<br clear="all" /> |
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
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- I do spend quite some time to plant one tree and this is a good investment that pays off later. First dig a hole about 1 x 1 m and ca 50 cm deep (this is for trees with more roots, when the tree is smaller the hole can be less big but not much as the roots will grow and need loose soil). Loosen the soil underneath. I take out some of the soil and replace it with about a wheel barrow of good compost. Also put some of this compost on top of the soil underneath the tree. There's a spiritual element to planting trees as well. First of all find the best place for the tree, both in an external and an internal sense. A garden or a yard can be creations of energy fields. Each tree makes a field of energy around it, which you can feel in the change of atmosphere when you come near the tree. When a tree is planted, it can be connected to the energies that already are in the garden. This is a prayerful, meditative activity. For fruit trees, give them at least once a year a new gift of compost on top of the soil. I also spray lava flour over the leaves once or twice a year as this gives the tree trace minerals and protects against many plant diseases.
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September 11, 2011 - Planting fruit trees
Yesterday i planted a few fruit trees. The photo shows a pear tree, Beurre Hardy.
I do spend quite some time to plant one tree and this is a good investment that pays off later.
First dig a hole about 1 x 1 m and ca 50 cm deep (this is for trees with more roots, when the tree is smaller the hole can be less big but not much as the roots will grow and need loose soil). Loosen the soil underneath. I take out some of the soil and replace it with about a wheel barrow of good compost. Also put some of this compost on top of the soil underneath the tree.
There's a spiritual element to planting trees as well.
First of all find the best place for the tree, both in an external and an internal sense.
A garden or a yard can be creations of energy fields. Each tree makes a field of energy around it, which you can feel in the change of atmosphere when you come near the tree.
When a tree is planted, it can be connected to the energies that already are in the garden. This is a prayerful, meditative activity.
For fruit trees, give them at least once a year a new gift of compost on top of the soil.
I also spray lava flour over the leaves once or twice a year as this gives the tree trace minerals and protects against many plant diseases.
Gallery
See also
External links
- Fruit tree Wikipedia
- Fruit tree pruning Wikipedia
