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Overheard a guy at the supply house talking about root flare excavation
I was picking up some wood chipper blades yesterday and this older arborist was telling the counter guy how most of the trees he gets called out for are planted too deep. He said he finds root flares buried under 6 inches of soil all the time, especially on new construction sites. It got me thinking about a job I bid last week where the oaks looked sickly but were growing fine 5 years ago. Has anyone here had good luck fixing trees just by exposing the root flare and leaving them alone?
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karen41020d ago
Ain't that the truth though? Seems like half the problems people have with their yards come from builders burying things two feet deeper than they ought to be.
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barbaraw1619d ago
My neighbor spent three days digging up a pipe he said was supposed to be at six inches and finally found it at three feet down.
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