Many nurseries deliver bare-root trees. If your spring is going like mine is, and have just received a bundle of trees as the snow drifts around your compost bin, whatcha going to do with a bundle of bare-root saplings?
If you had dug out your holes last fall, and put the dug out soil under cover, you could in fact plant hearty trees with that held-back soil. they are dormant and can take the weather while dormant.
I did not take my own advice, so I just re-hydrated a pail full of peat moss. I used that moss to heel in trees into a bottom draining pot. I also added water to remove-reduce air pockets. Those saplings can sit with minor shelter till The snow drifts melt away in SE-OH. Time enough now to replant when my fingers don't turn blue...
If you had dug out your holes last fall, and put the dug out soil under cover, you could in fact plant hearty trees with that held-back soil. they are dormant and can take the weather while dormant.
I did not take my own advice, so I just re-hydrated a pail full of peat moss. I used that moss to heel in trees into a bottom draining pot. I also added water to remove-reduce air pockets. Those saplings can sit with minor shelter till The snow drifts melt away in SE-OH. Time enough now to replant when my fingers don't turn blue...
