Vertical Mulching?

[Marc]

How do those of you who carry out verticular mulching go about this?

 

I have some to do myself, I was going to hire an airspade and compressor to carry out the job.

 

I thought of just fluffing the top of the soil lightly to the drip line, then adding some mulch on top, try to blast this in a bit, then put another couple of inches on top of that.

 

Or

 

Again lightly fluff the soil but also make some deeper trenches with the air spade radiating away from the trunk like spokes of a wheel upto the drip line. Incorporate the mulch into the trenches, then spread mulch under the rest of the canopy.

 

Sounds easy enough, in theory.

 

Any tips you can share?

 

 

Also do you have to be carefull about pathogeons? If I was spreading mulch onto the top soil, I would not be to concerned. With verticular mulching its possible the chips will come into direct contact with the root system. Is this going to be a concern?

 

Is it possible to find sterilised mulch?

[Lee Winger]

Completely wrong Marc, i'll pm you!

[Marc]

LOL thought it might be, I've seen some pics in magazine and read a few articles, how you actually go about it though is confusing me.

All I can think of is i'm going to need a boiler suit as its going to be very messy and probably wrong as you pointed out.

 

So the pm would be greatly appreciated Lee.

[Lee Winger]

and respirator lol

[Marc]

I'm struggling to google decent articles on verticular mulching of trees, finding plenty of articles on heart problems though, venticular mulching wtf?

 

Is there a better search word?

[Lee Winger]

Come on Marc get the terminology right lol it's vertical mulching...:wave:

[Lee Winger]

by the way vertical mulching should only be carried out in warm dry summer months

[Marc]

Thanks again Lee, i'll have another search today.

 

This is just a learning excercise at the moment, i'm trying to educate myself on all areas of tree health care.