Is there an optimal planting time?
Deciduous trees such as field maple can be purchased as inexpensive root products during the cold season. This fact lowers the cost of a hedge noticeably. Thus, the most advantageous planting time extends from autumn to the first frost. On the other hand, you can plant young plants in containers or bales during the entire frost-free season.
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Which site conditions are advantageous?
Field maple is assigned to the pioneer trees, which manifests itself in a pronounced tolerance of the location. Acer campestre will give you a lot of pleasure in any sunny to partially shaded location with normal garden soil. Only in the shade and in acidic or wet soil does growth fall far short of expectations.
What is important for a perfect planting?
A Maßholder prefers to spread its roots in loose, weed-free soil. Soak the roots in water beforehand until no more air bubbles rise. Only remove containers immediately before planting. Bale cloths, however, must not be removed. These will rot by themselves over time. How to plant field maple correctly:
- Dig spacious planting pits with twice the volume of the root ball
- Plant spacing: root crops 20-25 cm, container and bale goods 70-80 cm, solitary ideally 500 cm
- Mix in the excavation Horn shavings(€ 32.93 at Amazon *) and ripe compost
- Plant the field maple as deep as you did before
- Water abundantly and regularly on the day of planting and afterwards
Then cut back the root material by about a third to compensate for the lost root volume. For container and bale goods, a plant pruning is advantageous if you are aiming for extra bushy growth.
Tips
As a heart root, field maple spreads its root in all directions. As decades of observations by tree experts have shown, the horizontal growth is much more pronounced. Even at the age of 60, maple roots rarely reach a depth of more than 1.00 to 1.50 m, so there is no serious danger to sewer pipes.
