How to plant a tree

Easy steps to follow:

Tree planting and nourishing is not a highly technical subject. If you are interested to plant a tree, then should take care of the following easy steps to be a successful planter:

Choose suitable site for planting a tree. The site should have fertile soil, soft for digging a pit, and suitably located. You may need to ask permission from the custodian of the site.

 

• Get a quality sapling: it is easy to spot a quality sapling. The leaves are appropriately shiny green in colour and stand horizontal to the shoot rather than drooping downward. The bark is not peeled and the stem is soft and elastic rather than brittle and hard. The sapling doesn’t have symptoms for insect attack or of having a disease.

• Get tools: to dig hole for the plant, place it in the soil and cut off  its polythene bag, you will need a few tools such as sickle, shovel, trowel etc. toy can buy these from the market and are easily available from hardware stores;

• Dig a hole or pit as deep as the root ball of the sapling and twice of its width. Clear the walls and bottom of the loosen soil and keep the soil from the pit on its side for later filling of it.

• In most cases removal of the burlap from the root is not needed. You may chip roots circling the outside of root ball or on bottom.

• Put the seedling on undistributed soil in the pit, hold it straight and fill the pit around it.

• Now make a dame around the base of the plant as wide as the pit to hold water.

• Remove grass and weed in the neighbouring ground to keep the seedling clears, and provide it the opportunity of having maximum nourishment from the soil;

• Soak the plant with water after planting it.

 

Why plant trees?

• Trees produce Oxygen.
• Trees clean the soil and air.
• Trees control noise pollution.
• Trees slow storm water runoff.
• Trees are carbon sinks.
• Trees provide shade and cool.
• Trees act as windbreaks.
• Trees fight against soil erosion.
• Trees increase property value.
• Trees enhance beauty.
• Trees provide habitat to wildlife.