The best planting hole for a tree or shrub has slanted sides, is at least twice as wide as the root ball and is not any deeper than the root ball of the tree. A layer of bark nuggets over the root ...

Q: You wrote about people’s peaches and other stone fruit that didn’t mature due to the early & late heavy rains we had last winter. I have a 40-year-old Valencia orange with the oranges still green ...

This is the final article in the tree transplanting series and concludes with the follow-up care measures that will insure a long-lived, healthy tree. After placing the mulch over the soil out to the ...