Grass Tree installation

The true Australian bush!

Planting a Grass tree is fun, inspiring and dead easy, but there are a few thing you should know about Grass trees before you start swinging the banjo.

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The best time to transplant one is undoubtably during Winter, but can be done either side with good results. In Winter the soil is slightly damp and tends to hold around the roots better when dug up, this keeps the vital hair like connect between the soil microbes in tack, which will save the tree much unneeded stress.

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Selecting the new location – Grass trees are an understory species and will cope with either full sun or part shade, but not complete shade. The soil should be fairly well draining, however Grass trees are found in the Darling scarp area which tends to have a high clay content. The best bet is to select a tree from a similar soil type.

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This is where the fun starts – Choose a tree and start swinging. Dig a hole about 1m across and depending on root ball about 0.5m deep.

4.

Now your ready for the tree. Before lowering it into the hole, you should double check the size of the hole against the root ball, a quick and easy method to doing this is to use the handle of the shovel to give you a comparative measurement. It’s easy if you have access to a crane to assist you, however this can be done just as easy without with some careful planning. If you collect the tree on a car trailer this can be reversed straight to the hole and slid off the back and simply stood up. This method works quite well, but remember you only get one shot at it if you have a big tree, so check your measurement.

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Water in well. Get the hose and start watering. Air pockets trapped beneath the surface particularly in-between the roots it’s bad news. Rocking and shaking can help to release these.

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Water for the next several months every day, then for the next year every other day. Adding Seasol ocasionally will help all newly transplanted plants and provide the soil with food, Healthy soil, healthy plants.

Enjoy.