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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (131591)	2/5/2001 9:35:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1571405

Thanks for the tip on planting trees. I'd seen it said to do it that way, but not why to do it that way. The reason is to keep the ground saturated as much and as deep as possible. Roots like moisture...to the point that they will work their way into sewer and water lines through the pipe joints. When they hit dry, hard soil, they stop. Unless motivated otherwise, they will stay near the surface to catch "the easy" water....except for the tap root if the tree has one. So keeping the soil saturated causes them to move deeper and eventually get to the ground water table. If I remember correctly, you said your land was near the Delaware River so I don't expect the water table to be very deep in the ground. Out West, we usually plant trees in the fall. Our winters are mild enough that if the tree is of a 10 or 15 gallon size, it usually is able to weather the winter. We build a basin that's about a foot deep after planting so the tree catches as much of the winter moisture as possible and the ground around it becomes saturated. In Spring, the basin will need to be rebuilt and then filled once a week thru the summer...that coupled with normal rainfall should do the trick with the roots. Have never planted Poplars so I am not familiar with them but I suspect that with their roots so near the surface, they would have been blown over in a wind storm at some future point. The Delaware basin was hurting. It supplies NY, NY as well as most of the major NJ cities and Philadelphia. Southeastern NJ has enough water to feed NY - NY, LA - CA, and Chicago - IL without breaking a sweat. It flows out to the ocean about 6-12' below the surface in a massive stream. By the time you're out on the barrier islands it's up to ~3' from the surface as it flows up and over the salt. I assume it's about like that all over the east coast -- but am only familiar with NJ. I understand that the aqueducts are so old out East that large quantities of water are 'lost' each year through leakage. Apparently NYC has undertaken a massive project to build a new aqueduct from the Catskills to solve the problem...in fact, its probably done by now. Maybe the same problems plague the Phil/NJ areas as well. ted

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