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Unpopular opinion: the old boy at the nursery in Macon was right about planting depth
I was at a nursery outside Macon two weeks ago picking up a few red maples and an older fella working there stopped me before I loaded them. He pointed at the root flare on one and said, "the biggest killer of young trees is planting them too deep, not the soil." I've set hundreds of trees over the years and always figured a couple extra inches of dirt would not hurt. He pulled out a trowel and showed me how the flare should sit just above grade, maybe an inch, and how mulch piled against the trunk keeps moisture on the bark all day. I drove back and checked three trees I put in back in March and two of them had the flare buried. Now I dig the hole wider and shallower than I used to and check the flare with my hand before the first scoop of backfill. Any of you had clients push back when you tell them not to mound mulch up on the trunk like a volcano?
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