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10-01-2006, 08:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

wrote:
In spite of my initial scepticism I was encouraged by a programme seen
recently from Kew which pointed out that the great storm of '87 had
been seminal in changing the way in which they look at tree planting.
This revised approach supported what my man had been propounding a
couple of years before. HTH
Jayeff

i heard that programme too.

their new approach has

no compost in the hole - it rots away leaving a void

Hole only as deep as the pot you are planting - root plate is *very* shallow
roots do not go deeper

plus others i forget

pk