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Planting citrus in mulch?
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Posted by lychas CQ (My Page) on Sat, Jul 29, 06 at 23:40
| i'm the gardener of the family, my dad just got 3 citrus trees, a grapefruit, an orange and a lemon, the soil here is very rocky and clay based, he dug holes about 1ft deep and about 18inch wide, are those holes big enough, also he filled them up with mulch but since citrus need a ph of about 6.0-7.0 i would be thinking the mulch would be 2 ascidic as this is just decomposing plant matter from the tip, i was thinking the holes are 2 small and he would need 2 fill them up with top soil, also adding a clay breaker 2 help make the soil below better, can someone give me a bit of info 2 tell my dad so we can have good sucess with these trees, its just been a while since i been doing much gardening stuff |
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RE: Planting citrus in mulch?
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I'm inclined to agree with you. This is how I would approach it. Dig the hole about twice the size of the root ball, throw in a load of gypsum to start working on the clay, add plenty of compost mixed in with soil. Plant so that the trees sit above the old soil level, in a mound of their own. This cab be shaped like a basin to hold water. Mulch well.
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