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Prepare Bonsai Planting Area and Plant Tree

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Prepare a dedicated planting area for a bonsai tree using clay-based soil found on-site. Use a mini excavator and bobcat to move the soil and create a raised mound, which the clay soil's properties allow to hold its shape naturally. Strategically place a few large rocks around the base of the mound to mimic a natural bonsai landscape. Once the mound is shaped and rocks are in place, plant the 'Uncle Fogey Jack Pine' bonsai tree in the center. Add some plant fertilizer to encourage healthy growth.

Goal: Create a stable mound for the bonsai tree and plant it with appropriate care.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat Bobcat S185 — Moving soil and creating the mound
  • Bonsai Tree — Main focal point of the garden area
  • Large Rocks — Decorative elements around the bonsai
  • Mini Excavator Kubota — Moving soil and placing large rocks
  • Plant Fertilizer — Promoting healthy growth of the bonsai
  • Rake — Smoothing the soil mound
  • Shovel — Refining mound shape and digging planting hole
  • Clay-based Soil On-site — Creating the planting mound

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going to try to plant a bonsai. Since I'm a bonsai noob, I did chat GPT and I got some ideas and I've been watching bonsai videos and it's just nothing more than a visual centerpiece. But I want to show you Uncle Fogy. Usually they're in tiny little pots and stuff. >> Yeah, but you can create bonsai for outdoor structures as well. They don't have to be in a pot. I mean, maybe technically I'm no bonsai expert, so I'm not claiming to know. I'm just going to have some fun with a cool looking tree. Let's just put it that way. Now, that's a weird tree. Yeah, that's a jackpine. That's from I grew up in northern Minnesota. This is called an Uncle Fogy jackpine. And it only gets a couple feet tall, but it gets like 15, 20 feet wide or some crazy thing like that. >> We're We're just going to have spikes every so often. It's just going to be this tree growing sideways. >> Yeah. So, we're going to have some fun. We're going to try to get that planted, but let's go see if we can. So, part of a bonsai, we need to have something else in the ground to um to go along with it. So, let's go see if we can't find something somewhere to make it pop. We need a rock. You know, you got bonsai. Bonsai have rocks in front of them. >> Yeah. >> You got to put a rock in it. >> We need a rock, but not just any rock. We don't want an old Minnesota field stone. We want something that maybe is a little better. I was thinking that bad boy. pull him out of the burn pit or one of these two over here. So, we're going to crack open the excavator. We're going to pull these three out and take a look at them. You don't feel like old Amishing it by hand and some pickaxes and >> Why? >> I know, right? We have modern technology. >> Yeah. Well, let's get her fired up and get three boulders out and see what they look like. Heat. [Music] took the excavator off of it and it decided it wanted to sit right like we wanted I think what we'll do is we'll bring it in like this and we'll try to get it set in place just like that over there. Yeah, it's actually the kind of space we're used to working in when we work in the cities, twin cities, right? There's no no big loss, no open space, >> right? Huh? Oh, I got plenty of turn radius. Now watch. After I say we're used to doing that, I'm going to crush something. You're going to just I hopefully at least crush a rock before we crush the deco is Frankie is going to be upset. >> Frankie will hurt…

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