When can I plant my trees? I purchased 2 15 gallon crape myrtles and 1 30 gallon crape...
I purchased 2 15 gallon crape myrtles and 1 30 gallon crape myrtle. I am going to get them planted-the problem is is that my backyard and sideyard was lately hydromulched. They did not plant the trees today because of this reason, but when is a good time to plant my trees? I want to try to continue until a little grass is showing, but I don't want to wait more than a week. What do you presume?
What is hydromulch? Well, if you are trying to get grass to germinate and grow into a lawn at this time of year, you any live in a cool part of the country or you are ambitious. It will hold a lot of care and watering to keep hold of newly germinated grass alive at the altitude of the summer heat. Keep it well watered, but not drowning, and don't meander on it till the grass is at least 3 inches tall. Crape myrtles resembling a lot of sun, and need to be sheltered from frost and cold entwine, if you have any where you live.
Trees will also require deeply of care and attention if you transplant them in mid-summer. They will requirement to be planted in a hole with plentifully of good compost, they will need 2 - 3 inches (but not more) of mulch, and they will want to be watered every day, preferably with a drip hose.
Decide where on earth you want them to grow and plant them ASAP. It is even harder keeping trees alive in pots at this time of year. Garden centers have constant watering systems to maintain their plants looking healthy. You don't and the pots will dry out very at a rate of knots.
If you're planting crype mrytle, I assume your surrounded by the warmer climate. It's really too late surrounded by the year to put the trees in the ground. If you can, set them off the the side and cover the containers near mulch and keep them well watered, until this dive when things go dormant. You can plant them then. I other have trees left over from my spring planting season, and maintain them through the summer, covered with wood chips with unbelievably few problems.
It will also give your grass a chance to go and get well established. Two months ago. Don't you wish? That's how I other feel about planting trees. Wish I could've done it years ago.
Your present situation is to plant the trees at a rate of knots. Do it with as little disturbance of the hydromulch as you can. You can't just loaf for the grass to settle in.
Dig big holes. OOPS you forgot? Hydroseeded over the tree spaces? You'll just hold to redo it.
Hole for tree should be twice as wide as the pot and amended next to compost of something. Water well. be sure all the atmosphere is gone out of root pockets. Let it soak all the way down. Keep the trees watered all right. Don't keep the ground too wet. Soggy roots are doomed to failure.
Answers: I think the sooner you get them contained by, the less stress on them and the less stress on the grass around them.
I don't know what hydromulching might be, but I would ask the individual who did it to say when he thinks I should put surrounded by the trees. Otherwise, I would call the place I bought them and ask their opinion.
My assessment is that the sooner you put all the components of your landscape into the ground, the better.