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PureHarvest · March 30, 2016

And right on regarding tree staking and doing the super big and amended planting hole.
I always told customers they were, in effect, creating a container in the earth.
I will say that I like to throw a few big handfuls of leaf compost onto the soil pile that I will backfill into the hole for shrubs and perennials.
I feel like it is a chance to inoculate the area with microbes and a some foodstuffs for them and the native microbes to feed and grow off of.

March 30, 2016	#63
PureHarvest Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b Posts: 1,369	And right on regarding tree staking and doing the super big and amended planting hole. I always told customers they were, in effect, creating a container in the earth. I will say that I like to throw a few big handfuls of leaf compost onto the soil pile that I will backfill into the hole for shrubs and perennials. I feel like it is a chance to inoculate the area with microbes and a some foodstuffs for them and the native microbes to feed and grow off of.