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How to Plant a Tree

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The Gardening Journal: How to Plant a Tree


Trees add so much to a yard or garden, from providing shelter for birds and small animals to cleaning the air and preventing soil erosion. In this week’s video, Niki Jabbour explains how proper planting leads to a healthy tree.


Tree Planting Tools

A filled 20 gallon PVC tree watering bag encloses the tree base

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20 Gallon PVC Tree Watering Bag

$25.90

A gardener places a weed suppression square around the base of a newly planted tree

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Weed Suppression Squares

(Pkg. of 5)

$14.60

Installing Pound-In Edging with a mallet

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Pound-In Edging

$29.50

49L8650 - Your Trees

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Your Trees: What They Want You to Know

by Kevin R. Lee

$19.95

Trimming along a walkway with the Long-Handled Grass Shears

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Long-Handled Grass Shears

$38.50

A person using an ergonomic shovel to dig in a lawn

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Radius Ergonomic Stainless-Steel Shove...

$79.50

Cutting a twig with the high-quality bypass pruners

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High-Quality Bypass Pruner

$31.90

SC125 - Trunk Guard, each

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Trunk Guard

$4.80

PD210 - Lee Valley Sod Lifter

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Lee Valley Sod Lifter

$92.50

Close-up view of a working contour sprinkler

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Contour Sprinkler

$31.90

A spike embedded in soil irrigates the plants that surround it

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Shrubbler Drip Kit

$74.50