Over Fertilization?

[DadF]

Rolla- you're not alone. I can take you about anywhere around here and show you trees that have been installed half out of the ground and then a mulch volcano put around them. The other favorite(NOT) I've seen is a new mulch ring edged in around the tree and the edging dirt is just piled up against the tree-it must not take as much mulch to make the volcano that way .
Not that I'm trying to sound racist but I never remember seeing either of the those two problems before we had an international labor force. Is that something that has been an accepted practice in other countries??

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by DadF
I never remember seeing either of the those two problems before we had an international labor force. Is that something that has been an accepted practice in other countries??

You may be on to something. Lately I've encountered defenses of bad planting made by hispanics, with near-religious fervor and a total refusal to consider biology. Anglos do the same thing, but not with such stubborn zeal.

This edging-donut-volcano (caldera) syndrome is creating HUGE problems; I exhumed a $200. birch from under a 2' clay donut last week--every root rotted.