How to Plant Apple Trees for Pollution
- 1). Select a site where your apple trees get full sunlight, and have good loamy soil and good drainage. Plant the apple trees in the early fall or late winter so their roots have time to adjust to the soil and be ready for the spring growth.
- 2). Dig the hole for each tree, making it twice as deep and twice as wide as the container the roots are in. Remove the dirt from the hole; throw it into a wheelbarrow where you can mix some well-rotted compost into the soil.
- 3). Make a mixture of the removed soil from the hole you dug, with equal parts of well-rotted compost or humus. Mix it together with a shovel until it is uniform in color. Set aside to use in planting the tree.
- 4). Lay the tree on its side and remove the container from the roots. Trim any roots that are circling at the bottom of the pot with a pair of pruning shears. Loosen the root mass slightly, keeping the root ball intact.
- 5). Set the tree into the hole and situate it so that the graft union (the large knot low on the trunk) is about 2 inches above the soil line, setting soil under the tree to raise it to the desired height.
- 6). Fill the soil/compost mixture from the wheelbarrow into the hole around the tree, tamping it down with the heel of your shoe to reduce any air pockets. Mound the soil a few inches above the surrounding soil line and twice as wide as the dug hole, making sure not to cover the graft union.
- 7). Water each tree with 2 or 3 gallons of water immediately after planting. Continue watering every week for the first year, until the tree is well established.
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