Re: OT how deep to back fill around trees???

Posted by Steve on May 22, 2004 at 21:53:33 from (69.68.105.193):

In Reply to: OT how deep to back fill around trees??? posted by Kent on May 22, 2004 at 20:05:25:

The previous recommendations are good ones. Overall, try to disturb as little soil as possible around an old tree (to the drip line). If you absolutely have to move some soil, do it by hand with a rake, shovel, wheel-barrel, etc and add only a few inches of soil. I went through this in our new subdivision. The original developer 8 years ago realigned the entire road to save a huge beatiful white oak that was 3 foot across at the base. He wasted his time. He moved the gravel road a whopping 15-feet away and then put a driveway in on the other side of the tree just 10-feet away!!! It slowly died and I had to cut it down a year ago.
Hated to see it go. Counted about 80 rings on the tree trunk. I even called an arborist out to look at it and he said it couldn't be saved thanks to the movement of the dirt, the road, driveway, and disturbing the roots. The arborist said to watch in new subdivisions where you'll see a lot of trees die off in the 5-10 year range after the initial road and homebuilding.

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