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Dig Initial Planting Holes

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What happens here

The video demonstrates using a tractor-mounted auger to rapidly dig initial planting holes. This is an efficient method for creating deep, narrow holes quickly in larger areas like an orchard. For home garden beds, especially raised ones, manual digging with a shovel or post-hole diggers would be more appropriate. The purpose is to create the primary cavity for the plant. The video also shows using post-hole diggers to widen the auger-drilled holes, highlighting the need for holes that are wider than they are deep to encourage outward root growth.

Goal: Create planting holes using an auger (for large scale) or post-hole diggers/shovel (for smaller garden beds), ensuring the holes are wide enough to accommodate root spread.

Tools and materials

  • Post-Hole Diggers
  • Tractor-Mounted Auger

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feet between trees so we're going to mark all the holes for all the trees that we're going to get planted and we'll come back and we'll show you the auger dig in the holes so you may see that we dug the hole a bit deep well it's pretty hard to judge off of the auger but we'll backfill the hole and we'll put a little bit of lime in there and we'll also put some of this cow manure this composted cow manure in here and we'll pack around the outside of it kind of break the root ball up a little bit and we'll plant our treat so that's basically how I planted the entire orchard before except for I didn't use the auger the auger is handy to have but can be a bit frustrating as you might have seen when you got really really rocky soil which this is the Stoney Ridge farm there's a lot of rocks a lot of stones let's go get a tree and we'll show you how we're planting it and then me and Steve are going to get busy we're gonna finish planting the rest of these trees first thing we're gonna do guys is we're gonna clean out our hole real good here so I've got the hole all

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