Gardens 2025

[Harry]

Trees are looking terrific Spike. Thanks for posting the progress. Harry

[Harry]

Three times I have tried to propagate these green giant arborvitae trees. Finally I had some survive that I started a year ago. I’m going to start more now but on a larger scale and eventually plant a hedgerow of them. I’m also going to prepare a nursery area in my backyard to transplant the seedlings I have started. I’ve learned a few things by failing twice before. They say three times tge trick. First I believe the rooting hormone that I used last year gave me better results. It was a gel instead if a powder that I had used before. Secondly I believe by starting them in a group next to each other in the same box is better. Thirdly I watched a few you tube video’s and the planting medium they used was ground up wood chips. I used a mixture of ground up wood chips some peat moss and sand. I gave them a drink if water every so often last summer, but also had them against the west wall of my lean to. So they didn’t get full sun to dry out. I must admit they are quite hardy because I left them out all winter ling and most survived. You can see a few that browned out in the pic, but most are still green. Harry