In article , p.k.
writes

but the removal of Hessian wrapping is not so clear cut as you suggest :
See http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile...ootwrapped.asp

pk


The RHS text says for 'placement' in hole, only, not leaving it there
and backfilling!

The builders at a house we used to lives at some years ago had left the
hessian sack on every one of a row of conifers in the garden. Luckily it
killed the conifers stone dead after three years as they couldn't fight
their way out of the sacking
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk