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TH: Advice Please
Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
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I direct a community gardening program in DC and am providing some advice to
a community development organization that is getting trees from the Natl Tree
Trust, and now I need advice. NTT will provide the trees in Spring 1998.
They are 1 year old seedlings of four varieties -- willow oak, redbud, red
maple, and white pine -- 100 of each.
We will need to prepare a plan for their location and have developed two
possible scenarios. Now we need some guidance due to the very young age of
the seedlings:
1. We pick permanent locations for the trees -- in parks, in public housing,
at community organizations, etc. and put the trees there when we get them.
If so, what kind of protection would be best for them and for how long, so
that they survive well.
2. We decide they are too small to be put in their permanent location, so we
pick a place to create a tree bank and plant them there for some time first.
Is this a better idea? How long should they be protected in a tree bank
before transplanting? How long will be too long, after which the trees would
be too hard to move safely, using ordinary volunteer person-power, not
commercial tree moving equipment.
I welcome any and all advice. Thanks, Judy Tiger, GROW19@aol.com
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