"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow writes:
| "Sacha" wrote in message
| ...
| Okay, I extracted more info from Ray this morning. ;-)
Apparently
| the
| slabs were real paving slab size - around 3' x 2.5' and they
were
| buried a
| yard below the apple trees' roots.
|
| Wow! That is a SERIOUS hole. Almost like digging to China. The
old
| bloke who dug the holes must have been fit.

Eh? That is a third of the effort of digging a standard grave. It
is
only shifting a tonne up by under a metre. Even I could do that in
a
day.

Well I dips me lid to you, you clearly don't spend all your time
behind a computer.

I've planted quite few apple trees over the years (both bare rooted
and potted) and a hole of that size is big. I can't imagine digging
down another yard below the level of the roots of the tree.